Founded in 2000, BANC3 is a Princeton-based defense product company known for adapting software-defined technologies to demanding national-security missions. Its work supports U.S. defense and space organizations, building on experience with programs across the military and the National Reconnaissance Office. The company is now focused on long-duration systems that can be upgraded after deployment rather than replaced.
SciTec, IncFor more than 45 years, SciTec has built remote-sensing, missile-defense, and command-and-control systems for national-security missions. The Princeton-headquartered company turns complex sensor data into rapid threat detection and decision support, using system modeling, rapid prototyping, and operational evolution to move technology from concept to combat-ready service. SciTec is a certified small business and non-traditional defense contractor, now operating as a Firefly Aerospace subsidiary under its current leadership.FAIRBORN, OH
Precise SystemsFounded in 1990 to support NAVAIR, Precise Systems has grown from a small technical-services firm into a defense and government mission partner based in Lexington Park. For more than three decades, it has applied engineering and digital expertise to complex programs, with work spanning development through lifecycle support. Its people-first culture and disciplined processes are central to how it supports national security customers.LEXINGTON PARK, MD
ArcfieldArcfield is a Chantilly-based defense technology company that develops systems and digital engineering solutions for national security missions, spanning the ocean floor to space. Though the name is new, the company brings more than 68 years of mission support to government agencies across the United States and Canada, with more than 2,200 employees and 18 global locations. Its 82% security-cleared workforce supports space superiority, hypersonic defense, undersea warfare and digital transformation, including through its Orion Space Solutions and Strategic Technology Consulting brands.BROOKPARK, OH
Defense Architecture Systems, IncFounded in 2010 by Micah Carlson after 14 years at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Defense Architecture Systems is a small, cleared Maryland company built to move promising research into equipment that works in the field. Its multidisciplinary team works with defense, intelligence, space and commercial customers from early concepts through production, using an in-house facility to keep development and manufacturing closely connected. DAS is particularly known for adapting sensing technology to demanding operational environments.FULTON, MD