Carbon ISR turns a proprietary aligned carbon nanotube film into conformal antennas, electromagnetic shielding and thermal mitigation, then engineers the complete system around it: the RF design, the housing, the embedded electronics and the software. Built by operators, founders and engineers for military and intelligence missions.
One film. A conductor that isn't metal and doesn't fail like one. Thinner than a coat of paint, flexible enough to roll to the size of a pencil, and immune to corrosion.
Our proprietary, patented process aligns single-walled carbon nanotubes into a dense, solid, non-woven film. Laser-patterned, it becomes an antenna, a shield or a heat spreader. Laminated, it becomes part of a fabric, an airframe or an enclosure. No metal, no ink, no etching, no tooling.
The skin effect cuts copper's useful conductivity roughly ten-fold by 5 GHz. It corrodes, it fatigues, and more than half of the world's refining capacity sits with an adversary. Our film is 100% carbon, sourced and made domestically.
A field whip is visible at 90 to 150 meters. A conformal carbon element sits a tenth of a millimeter above the surface, adds no drag, needs no mounting holes, and disappears under paint.
A new antenna geometry is a laser file, not a tool. We design, build and test with the operator in the loop and converge on a field-ready element in days, not program cycles.
Measured on production film. Composition and thickness are tuned per application; transparent variants exceed 90% transmittance.
Four offerings, one material. Each is delivered as a finished, integrated component or a complete system, never as a roll and a datasheet.
Conformal antennas
Laser-patterned dipoles, patches, meanders and arrays on rigid platforms, vehicles, fabric and skin. Frequency, gain and pattern are tuned to the mission. Standard TNC and SMA connectors swap directly with fielded radios. Transparent variants for glass, optics and displays.
EMI shielding
Over 80 dB at five microns. Wraps, laminates, pouches, tents, wall coverings and operator-protection reflectors behind body-worn antennas.
Thermal mitigation
High in-plane thermal conductivity, near-zero expansion and no degradation through thermal cycling. Lightweight spreaders and interface layers for dense electronics, airframes and spacecraft.
Antenna and RF design, housings and enclosures, laminates and fabric integration, embedded electronics, firmware and software. One team from requirement to field.
Chamber and field results against the incumbent metal hardware, on the platforms operators actually carry, fly and drive.
Drop-in replacement for the stock antenna on a quadruped UGV, same connector. Latency 20 to 25% lower, outdoor packet loss 50% lower, signal strength up to 41% higher in a parking structure, at under half the weight and a fraction of the cost.
Customer tested10 grams and 0.127 mm against an 80 gram, 50 mm blade. No mounting holes, no drag penalty. Estimated 4 to 16% more range on 0.5 to 1.9 kg airframes from weight alone.
DemonstratedEquivalent performance to a ruggedized active GPS antenna with zero visual signature and no bodywork on the host vehicle. Chamber tested, range tested, fielded in a combatant command area of responsibility.
FieldedOne-for-one swap for an aluminum inlay in a commercial wristband. Stable reads across body types and orientations in under 1.5 mm total, replacing a 6.35 mm foam spacer stack.
Customer tested0.75 to 1.5 pounds against 5 pounds of wire antenna. Visible at under 10 meters instead of 90 to 150. Survives more than 2 billion flex cycles and does not corrode.
In developmentA conformal meandering dipole laminated into fabric with a carbon reflector layer behind it. The reflector keeps the body out of the pattern and RF out of the body, so the element keeps working where a whip and an unshielded dipole both go dead.
DemonstratedEvery element starts with a real platform, a real radio and the person who has to carry it.
Tell us the radio, the platform and the band. We pattern, laminate, connectorize and ship an evaluation kit, then iterate on your field feedback until it's right.
Antennas laminated into nylon or aramid, with a reflector layer that protects the wearer and preserves the pattern. No spools of wire, no whip.
Conformal ADS-B, GPS and datalink elements for small airframes and ground robots. Less weight, less drag, more range, lower radar profile.
Low-visibility GPS, comms and tracking elements that blend into a civilian roofline with no bodywork and nothing to spot.
Shielded rooms and tents, transparent elements on glass, and antennas whose geometry holds through orbital thermal cycling.
A conductor is not a product. We deliver the system: the element, the enclosure it lives in, the electronics it feeds and the software that runs it.
Most material companies hand you a roll. We take the requirement through RF design, mechanical packaging, embedded hardware and software, prove it in the chamber and on the range, and hand back something an operator can mount and use.
Radio, band, platform, environment, signature and weight budget.
Pattern, feed and matching. Enclosure, mount and laminate. Electronics and software.
Laser-cut direct from the design file. No tooling, so a redesign costs hours.
Laminate, connectorize, house, populate and program.
Chamber, bench and range against the incumbent hardware.
Operator feedback drives the next iteration, in days.
Dipoles, patches, meanders, arrays and reflectarrays from HF through mm-wave. Impedance matching, feeds, reflector and shielding layers, chamber and network-analyzer validation.
Enclosures, mounts, laminates and fabric integration designed to fit existing kit, rails and platforms. Sealed and ruggedized where the mission demands it.
Radio and sensor integration, control electronics, firmware and the application software that turns an element into a capability on the operator's screen.
The people designing your system have carried the kit, built the company and run the line.
Veterans of special operations and the intelligence community who know what signature, weight and a dead link cost downrange. They write the requirement and sit in every design review.
Founders who have built, scaled and exited technology companies before. They know how to take a material from a lab result to a production line, a quality system and a contract vehicle.
RF, materials, mechanical, embedded and software engineers, backed by more than a decade of peer-reviewed research on carbon nanotube antennas and a running production line.
Bring us the radio, the platform, the band or the problem. We'll come back with a path to an evaluation kit, a system design or a partnership conversation.