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Capabilities we're building before the requirement lands.

Garage Defense™ funds its own R&D. The capabilities below are active investments. Some will graduate into the Platform; some will stay in research. All are paid at private expense, which means our customers don't wait on contracting cycles to leverage emerging technology quickly.                              

Resilient PNT for Tactical Edge
GPS jamming and spoofing are now routine in contested theaters. We're researching multi-source timing and localization architectures - multi-modal timing and localization research for GPS-degraded environments, including precision time-distribution and inertial methods. fallbacks - that keep distributed edge nodes operational when satellite navigation is degraded or denied. Direct application to forward-deployed counter-UAS, sensor networks, and C-UAS detection/cueing. This research complements our shipped Sovereign PNT Atlas on the Platform. Together they form the full Garage Defense PNT-resilience stack: where to find signals and how to stay timing-locked when those signals are denied.

Next-Generation AI Governance
Independent dual confidence scoring - methodology details available under NDA is in production today. We're researching the next layer: provenance, formal verification, and counterfactual auditing for agentic systems - forward-compatible with DoDI 3000.09 §4.c. that allow commanders and oversight officers to reconstruct decision lineage on demand. Forward-compatible with DoDI 3000.09 §4.c review processes and emerging Pentagon AI accountability frameworks.    

Sovereign Edge Hardware
The US defense industry runs on AI, but its components don't always come from the US: image-sensor silicon is overwhelmingly foreign-sourced, and carrier boards for the dominant US edge-AI compute module come from other countries. We’re developing US-sovereign sensor and compute boards - defense-tuned camera silicon for day and night-NIR imaging, and a US-built carrier for the NVIDIA Jetson ecosystem - each with component-level origin traceability designed for NDAA Section 889 and emerging BOM-disclosure mandates. Proven first inside our own sensor nodes, these boards are intended as a domestic source for every US program that needs to answer where its hardware comes from.