Highlander Companions, a Dallas, TX-based personal funding agency, acquired Black Sage Technologies, a Boise, ID-based multi-mission platform supplier of Counter Unmanned Plane Programs and safety options for army, inside safety, and significant infrastructure industries.
The quantity of the deal was not disclosed.
Led by CEO Al White, Black Sage is a know-how producer and integrator of multi-mission C-UAS and safety options which can be designed to guard lives and significant infrastructure from threats all over the world. Its platforms are powered by a proprietary working system, DefenseOS. This AI-driven, open structure command and management software program suite combines layered sensor knowledge and automates the C-UAS kill chain to ship automation capabilities, together with AI/ML automated goal recognition and risk analysis, ISR performance, digital warfare, and kinetic and non-kinetic effectors.
In 2022, Highlander shaped Excessive Level Aerotechnologies (“Excessive Level”) as a division of Highlander to help in civilian and army protection investments particularly associated to the quickly evolving C-UAS and UAS sectors. Black Sage represents Highlander’s second centered C-UAS acquisition and enhances the C-UAS platform that was established in late-2022 with Highlander’s acquisition of Liteye Programs. It’s the third general associated funding, together with the current UAS acquisition of Dzyne Applied sciences. The assembled Excessive Level staff now consists of quite a lot of established leaders with backgrounds in protection, authorities, and know-how, every of whom will help Black Sage on tactical alternatives, authorities relations, regulatory and legislative issues, rising applied sciences, and development initiatives.
FinSMEs
06/02/2023
