Top California Defense Startups (47)

Red 6 is an innovative Augmented Reality (AR) technology startup leading the way in synthetic air combat training. Our primary technology, supporting our ATARS product, enables pilots to simulate the cognitive challenges of flying while accessing realistic, scalable training in dynamic outdoor environments

We’re developing reusable vehicles that bring payloads home from orbit safely and precisely, enabling faster in-space manufacturing, global delivery, and entirely new capabilities in the space economy.

Rangeview is building a modern casting platform to manufacture critical metal parts for aerospace, defense, and energy. We combine advanced software, automation, and materials science to reinvent how parts are designed and produced. Based in El Segundo, California, our team brings engineering, manufacturing, and technology together to build the foundry system that reindustrializes America.

Ntrepid develops managed-attribution and attribution-intelligence technologies for government, national-security, law-enforcement, and defense organizations. Its platform brings together secure network routing, physical and virtual devices, workspaces, oversight, AI capabilities, analytics, and automation to support complex cyber operations, intelligence collection, and OSINT. The company emphasizes data security, privacy, auditing, and discreet, scalable online mission support for advanced missions across sensitive operational environments.

The Marlin Alliance, Inc. is a woman-owned business and digital transformation consulting firm. Its mission is to ensure clients compete and win in tomorrow's digital world by providing integrated services in digitization, automation, and software solutions. The company serves both commercial clients in sectors like healthcare and energy, as well as military and government agencies within the Department of Defense.

Brandes Associates, Inc. (BAI) is a small defense-services and technology company that provides engineering, software development, systems engineering, program acquisition and management, logistics, and technical support. Founded in 1990, it serves the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and other U.S. and foreign clients. BAI also develops secure interoperability products and UAV solutions, operating from Denver-area headquarters and customer-co-located offices nationwide.

Artemis Consulting is a small, woman-owned business, founded in 2005, and headquartered in San Diego, CA.  We are a business consulting firm dedicated to delivering superior professional support consulting services.  We partner with customers throughout the Department of Defense to deliver critical acquisition, programmatic, and functional support that enables our clients to overcome their most persistent challenges.

The world brings ever-evolving challenges; SciTec builds solutions. Our forward-thinking approach provides a wide range of services and fully integrated technical support to the defense industry, governmental agencies, and industrial system development firm applications. We empower our scientists, engineers, and developers to deliver cutting-edge, advanced sensor systems, tailor innovative technologies to our customers’ needs quickly from concept to operational reality,...

TDI Technologies, Inc. is a professional services company founded in 1988, providing highly technical, technology-driven solutions to federal and commercial clients. The company specializes in core competencies including research and development, cybersecurity, software development, and engineering services. Their mission is to deliver consistent, high-quality professional services and innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations, particularly in supporting the US Navy and...

Tri Tool Technologies is a global leader in the design and manufacture of custom-engineered solutions and precision machine tools. They provide specialized on-site machining, pipe beveling, tube squaring, and flange facing services. The company serves diverse industrial sectors including aerospace, government and defense, life sciences, power generation, oil and gas, and semiconductors, focusing on solving complex challenges with innovative, high-quality...

Turion Space is building the infrastructure to secure and sustain the future of space. Founded to address the growing need for space domain awareness, in-space servicing, and debris mitigation, Turion designs, builds, and operates spacecraft with real-world operational capability. Our vehicles are built for national security and commercial missions that require speed, autonomy, and resilience. We believe the next chapter of...

Established in 2005, Tridant Solutions is a professional and management services firm serving military, federal, and private clients with mission-critical program support. Its capabilities include supply-chain sourcing, technical-records and document-lifecycle management, logistics and material management, auditing, safety and compliance training, medical readiness and case management, medical talent mobilization, and procurement/acquisition services. The company is a multi-certified small business headquartered in...

Umbra builds next-generation space systems that observe the Earth in unprecedented fidelity. Our mission: Deliver global omniscience. To stay ahead of climate change, geopolitical risk, and other major crises and issues, we need a global understanding of what is changing, where, and how fast. Umbra provides easy access to the highest quality commercial satellite data available, which is an indispensable tool for...

General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems – Canada Inc. (GD-OTS Canada) develops and manufactures ammunition for armed forces and law-enforcement agencies. As a prime contractor and ammunition-systems integrator, it supports Canada’s defence capability through production, technical expertise, research, design, development, product improvement, and testing. Headquartered in Repentigny, Québec, the company produces conventional and training ammunition and serves as Canada’s national...

Govini builds software to accelerate the Defense Acquisition Process. Ark, Govini’s flagship product, is a suite of AI-enabled applications, powered by integrated government and commercial data, that solves problems across the entire spectrum of Defense Acquisition, including Supply Chain, Science & Technology, Production, Sustainment, and Modernization. With Ark, the Acquisition community eliminates slow, manual processes and gains the ability to...

Kern Steel Fabrication, Inc. is a leading specialist in advanced structural steel fabrication and the custom design and manufacture of aircraft Ground Support Equipment (GSE). Founded in 1959 and based in Bakersfield, California, the company provides high-quality fabricated structural steel to multiple industries and creates specialized solutions for complex aircraft maintenance and assembly projects.

Space Kinetic is focused on our nation’s most urgent national security priorities. Our goal is to rethink space operations down to first principles to deliver game-changing capabilities for missile defense and space superiority.

Intellisense Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of advanced sensing and display solutions supporting a data continuum from acquisition to visualization. We enhance our hardware with software that adds intelligence to our systems and can turn raw data into useful information for improved decision making and process automation. Intellisense Systems offers both off-the-shelf products and custom development services. These services include...

QBE LLC is a management and technology consulting organization that provides services to the federal government and defense communities, offering IT services, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, data management, and system engineering.

Stratos Solutions, Inc. is a professional technical services company specializing in systems engineering and technical assistance (advisory services) in support of the U.S. Intelligence Community. We are looking for candidates with a TS/SCI Clerance with a polygraph. To check out current opportunities go to https://stratos-solutions.breezy.hr/ or email [email protected] for more information. Incorporated in Virginia in 2003, our employee-owners average 20+ years...