we build
the middle.
Building high-performance aerospace and defense systems from the ground up. Lean, cost-efficient, and built in America.
Slade Technologies · programs and work
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Specter
02Element 310 →
03 · Status1/3Work packages complete →
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01 · The gap
American defense hardware is stuck at two extremes. Exquisite systems are too expensive to risk. Cheap, expendable ones can't be trusted to matter. The middle goes unbuilt.
02 · Named programsAll systems
01
specter
Penetrating ISR and SIGINT.
View the program03 · Where the work standsAll entries
3.1subscale airframe
Complete
3.2element 310
In design
3.3ground test rig
In design
04 · Work with us