Tethered aerostat systems and airborne radar delivering persistent, wide-area surveillance for border security, maritime domain awareness and homeland defense — on station, in all weather, around the clock.
Borders are vast. Oceans are featureless. Crewed aircraft go home. A tethered aerostat holds a radar at altitude continuously — for days, not sorties — delivering the one thing persistent surveillance actually requires: it never leaves.
We do not integrate somebody else's platform. We design, build, fly and sustain our own — including the L-88 radar.
Five platforms from the sea-based 56K and tactical 74K to the 660K high-lift maritime system — carrying up to 8,800 lb to 15,000 feet, powered and fed by a single fiber tether.
Purpose-built for lighter-than-air operations — not adapted to it. The L-88-V3 is the current CBP TARS standard, with V4 and V5 in design alongside C Speed's Light Wave technology.
Fully certified, crewed airships for lease or purchase. The Skyship and Sentinel series deliver 12+ hour endurance for maritime patrol, ISR and communications relay.
We do not hand you a system and leave. 24/7 field operations, helium management, crew training and RAM-driven maintenance across eight active sites in austere environments.
Not a prototype shop. Awarded, fielded and sustained across defense and homeland security programs.
Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense — a vehicle for rapid delivery of innovative capability to the warfighter.
Operations and maintenance across eight TARS sites — the U.S.–Mexico border, the Florida Straits and the northern Caribbean.
Persistent Threat Detection System — 74K aerostats fielded across Iraq and Afghanistan, protecting forward operating bases.
LTC David Clonts · Deputy G3 (Acting G3), 1st Cavalry Division
The 74K aerostat carried the Army's persistent surveillance mission through more than a decade of combat operations — flying without propulsion, holding station into the wind, and giving troops on the ground a view that never blinked.
Wide-area radar surveillance along the U.S.–Mexico border and the Florida Straits — detecting low, slow aircraft where ground radar cannot see.
Persistent coverage over open water, littoral zones and port approaches — surface vessel tracking without the cost of crewed sorties.
Elevated sensing as a layer in homeland defense architecture, under the MDA SHIELD vehicle.
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