Reception with DIU Commercialization Fellowship (DCF) Startup Teams in Palo Alto, CA
Join us at the BMNT Palo Alto Office for an evening reception celebrating the 2026 DIU Commercialization Fellowship cohort. Enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres while connecting with student founders, mentors, investors, government partners, and members of the national security innovation ecosystem.
SwarmShield (Stanford) — Autonomous terminal-guidance stack for low-cost interceptor drones to defeat attack drones swarms.
FireFly Intel (FAU) — On-device, multi-sensor fusion layer for drones that flags multispectral decoys and shares intel over low-bandwidth tactical networks.
OMNIA AI (UC Berkeley) — GUARD, an autonomous, sub-$1,000 kinetic system that detects and intercepts small explosive drones with no operator in the loop.
RapidRotor-AI (Purdue) — ML surrogate-modeling platform that replaces weeks-long, costly CFD runs with near-instant rotor/propeller aerodynamic predictions.
Marten (Stanford) — Delivering an AI intelligence platform for the U.S. Intelligence Community and DoW.
AGA (Agincourt Arsenal) (Stanford) — "Fletcher," a containerized, additive-manufacturing cell that produces drone warheads at the edge of the fight.
Downtrace (Stanford) — Sovereign edge-AI command console giving Special Forces ODAs offline AI decision support and doctrine reference in disconnected environments.
BreachON (UF) — Low-cost, expendable multi-modal lane-marking system for combat breaching, with real-time digital lane awareness to commanders.
KHARROS (UC Santa Cruz others) — Independent compliance-scoring and test-and-evaluation platform for vetting commercial autonomy before the government buys it.
BZRD Systems (Virginia Tech) — Passive, low-signature distributed RF sensor network that detects enemy drones without exposing soldier positions.
Parallax Defense Corp (UC Berkeley) — "Torrent," a water-based, AI-guided counter-UAS system using a high-pressure water stream as near-zero-cost ammunition.
Spectra (UC Berkeley) — ATAK middleware that translates EW sensor data into a simple, real-time threat map for the frontline soldier.
ENCOMPASS (UCSD) — Web-based R&D intelligence platform that surfaces and ranks emerging technologies against DoD mission needs.
Skyscan (USC) — Software-only ATAK plugin providing cryptographic drone identification friend-or-foe over the tactical mesh network.
OVERSEER (UF) — Data-augmentation and causal-inference layer that helps information-operations analysts measure operational impact faster.
ALPHA (Univ. of S. Mississippi) — Physics-informed ML system that screens ballistic armor materials computationally before costly physical testing.
ionX Technologies (Stanford) — AI-accelerated reagent selection to boost yield from U.S. rare-earth and critical-mineral processing with no new capex.
AI Route Planning (CMU) — ATAK plugin that auto-generates fast, safe, and concealed vehicle routes across complex terrain in seconds.
Tessellate (Stanford) — Hardware-in-the-loop verifier and certifier that makes agentic coding possible for the embedded software inside drones, robots, and other autonomous hardware.
Rare Earth Rescue (Univ. of Chicago) — First U.S. marketplace connecting end-of-life scrap supply with recyclers to build a domestic recycled rare-earth supply chain.
Operational & Strategic Networks (UMich) — An AI-powered digital wargaming platform modernizing military leadership training with analytics.