Founded in 2022 at St. Mary’s County Regional Airport, Rapid Response Research Group develops, integrates, and flight-tests airborne sensor and communication systems for defense and commercial aviation. The small business is built around deployable aircraft and personnel, supporting manned and unmanned platforms with particular experience in maritime patrol, telemetry, and ISR missions. Its team brings more than 40 years of combined experience across engineering, flight operations, sensor testing, and aircraft integration.
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Offshore Aviation GroupOffshore Aviation Group is a veteran-owned company providing maritime and aviation support for defense, research, commercial, and military customers. Through OffshoreUAS, it designs and manufactures tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, provides rapid prototyping, payload integration, flight testing, and training, and operates maritime support vessels for defense, research, offshore, and logistics missions.PINEY POINT, MD
DSTWith more than 30 years in the Hagerstown area, DST provides the U.S. Department of Defense, law enforcement and federal agencies with airborne and ground-based platforms for sensor testing, training and research. Its fleet of more than ten specially integrated fixed-wing aircraft supports mission operations, while its engineering team handles aircraft modification and systems integration for customer-owned platforms. Founded by Dana, a former radar systems engineer for the F-15 Eagle and B-2 Bomber, DST has completed more than 40 special-mission aircraft integrations.HAGERSTOWN, MD
Lantern NetworkVeteran-owned Lantern Network is a close-knit small business established in 2024, with an operational presence in the National Capital Region and Fayetteville, North Carolina. Drawing on more than 45 years of combined team experience, it supports defense and commercial customers with passive airspace awareness that helps them understand nearby aircraft and drone activity without radar or active transmissions.ACCOKEEK, MD
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