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Four programs. One contested fight.

Kettner's systems find and fix the threat, keep your own platform navigating through it, and turn a single detection into a coordinated response. We describe each program by what it does for the mission. Capability first, and the details when it counts.

Disclosure notice: Kettner is in a controlled-disclosure phase. Product identities, designations, and specifications are reserved for formal announcement and scheduled release. The capability descriptions below are public-safe summaries. Detailed materials are available to qualified organizations through our compliance-screened process. Exception: the SYS/01 product identity, FIREFLY, is announced below ahead of formal release; its specifications remain reserved.
SYS / 01Autonomy
Concept · Geometry only

COLLABORATIVE AUTONOMY

Multi-Vehicle Teaming System · Prototype Testing
Product FIREFLY · Swarm Coordination Datalink Coming to Market

Our most mature line. Small unmanned systems that operate as a team, not a collection of individuals. One detection becomes a coordinated response, extending the reach and resilience of every platform in the formation.

  • Act as one: shared awareness turns individual sensors into a single distributed picture
  • Resilient by design: the team adapts and continues when any one platform drops out
  • Returns mass to the force with attritable, low-cost systems that scale
  • Early prototypes built and in test
Request the program brief →Status: Prototype Testing
SYS / 02EW · ESM
Illustrative · Geometry only

PASSIVE TARGETING

Autonomous Airborne EW System · In Development

Persistent awareness of the electromagnetic battlespace, delivered from the platforms you already operate. The system detects, classifies, and locates the emitters that matter, and puts that picture in front of operators in time to act.

  • Turn threat warning into decision advantage: see the emitter picture and move first
  • Bring electromagnetic reconnaissance to missions where it was never previously affordable
  • Built to operate through GPS-denied and communications-contested conditions
  • Scalable from small unmanned platforms to larger aircraft
Request the program brief →Status: In Development
SYS / 03Assured PNT
Illustrative · Geometry only

GPS PROTECTION

Adaptive Anti-Jam Protection Line · In Development

Navigation you can trust when the signal is contested. Integrated protection that holds position, navigation, and timing through jamming and spoofing, on platforms legacy anti-jam hardware could never reach.

  • Holds the mission through interference that stops unprotected systems
  • Drop-in upgrade: no separate processing box, no new harness
  • Variant family planned across unmanned, military, and commercial applications
  • Export-aligned variants planned for allied and partner-nation fielding
Request the program brief →Status: In Development
SYS / 04Sensing

AIRSPACE AWARENESS

Airspace Sensing Program · Research & Development

Detect-and-avoid awareness for unmanned aircraft, sized for the platforms that need it most. A low-SWaP sensing feed that helps small UAS share the sky safely with crewed traffic.

  • Purpose-built for safe integration of unmanned aircraft into shared airspace
  • Designed as a detection feed for certified decision systems
  • Sized for small platforms where existing sense-and-avoid will not fit
Request the program brief →Status: Research & Development
SYS / 01 · Concept Demonstration

One detection. A coordinated response.

A single vehicle on independent overwatch makes first contact. That detection is the activation: the team launches, transits in formation, splits to envelop, and responds from multiple axes while surplus vehicles hold overwatch and reassign.

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SYS/01 · Concept animation · Geometry only · No performance data
SYS / 01 · Product Announcement

The name behind SYS/01: FIREFLY.

Our Collaborative Autonomy program now has a product identity. Firefly is a low-SWaP swarm coordination datalink for small unmanned systems: one module that holds a networked link between platforms, from a single aircraft to a coordinated team, in spectrum an adversary is actively contesting.

  • Multi-band, frequency-agile link layer, programmable in operation
  • Additive to the platform's own control and video links, never a replacement
  • One module for independent flight or coordinated team behaviors
Path to Market

Firefly enters the market through deep integration with launch platform partners, not as an off-the-shelf module. First builds are partner-configured variants engineered onto their platforms; a standard configuration follows formal release.

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Firefly swarm coordination datalink module, concept render Engineering module · Concept render · Not production hardware

Specifications reserved for formal release. Export classification review in progress; technical data is released only to authorized parties following compliance review. FIREFLY is a product designation of Kettner Aerospace LLC.

How They Work Together

One platform. The whole spectrum fight.

Mounted together, the EW and protection systems give a single airframe the ability to operate offensively and survive defensively in the same contested environment.

/ OFFENSE

Find it

Passively detect and geolocate the emitter, including the jammer attacking your navigation.

/ DEFENSE

Survive it

Keep the same platform navigating accurately while that jamming is active around it.

/ RESULT

Freedom to operate

The airframe holds its mission in airspace where unprotected platforms would be blind or lost.

Our Disclosure Posture

Capability first. Details when it counts.

In our domain, discretion is part of good engineering. We describe what our systems enable and reserve names, designations, and performance data for qualified conversations and formal releases. If your mission can't wait for the announcements, neither should you.

/ WHY

Security-Conscious by Design

Operational security and export discipline protect our customers and our technical edge. What we publish is deliberate; what we hold back is too.

/ WHAT'S COMING

Formal Product Releases

Product identities, designations, and public specifications will be revealed through scheduled announcements. Ask to be notified when each release goes public.

/ EARLY ACCESS

Early Partner Program

A limited number of early partners get evaluation access, integration data, and a direct line to our engineers ahead of public release.

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Platforms

Built for seamless integration.

/ 01

Tactical UAS

Group 1–3 unmanned aircraft operating in jammed forward areas.

/ 02

Attritable Systems

Expendable and attritable effectors that must hold navigation through the mission's final phase.

/ 03

Crewed Aircraft

Special-mission aircraft and rotorcraft needing resilient PNT and passive awareness on long routes.

Engagement

Bring spectrum advantage to your platform.

Capabilities briefs are available to qualified defense, government, and partner organizations.

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