The 2026 NatSec100 recognizes venture-backed companies developing technologies for national security and defense.
Autonomous defense systems for air, land, and sea, connected by Lattice software.
Unify your data, analytics, and AI on a governed lakehouse to build apps and agents.
Photonic quantum computing and fault-tolerant algorithm software.
Autonomous drones and Docks built for missions that cannot wait.
Autonomous ships and shipyards bringing software speed and scale to maritime defense.
Human spaceflight and commercial orbital infrastructure
Frontier AI that helps a billion weekly users think, create, code, and get work done.
Spacecraft and transportation services for moving payloads between orbits.
Space technology company delivering satellite platforms, reusable spaceplanes, and propulsion systems.
The operating standard for autonomous operations in complex, high-stakes environments.
The Command Decision Platform for military organizations.
Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Its mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved.
Reliable AI for critical decisions, from frontier training data to deployed systems.
Advanced American weapons, fielded at startup speed and scale.
Dataminr is the leading AI platform for real-time event, threat, and risk intelligence.
Fully and rapidly reusable launch vehicles for reliable transportation to, through, and from space.
Autonomy for aircraft when GPS and comms disappear.
Scalable satellites, terminals, and software-defined systems for space, air, and ground missions.
The Future of American Production
AI supercomputers for training and inference, from on-demand GPUs to dedicated clusters.
