Mission Relevance
We focus on problems that materially affect readiness, survivability, effectiveness, logistics, or decision-making.
Defense innovation built around the mission.
We solve consequential problems for the warfighter.
The Solid Company is a defense innovation company focused on identifying operational problems, finding technologies capable of solving them, and deploying the resources required to turn promising solutions into meaningful capabilities.
We begin with the mission - not the technology.
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Problem
Start with a consequential defense need.
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Customer
Identify who needs the capability and why.
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Solution
Find the technology and team capable of solving it.
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Scale
Deploy capital and resources where meaningful demand exists.
The Solid Company / Thesis
We are not searching for uses for technology. We are searching for technology that solves important problems.
Why defense innovation mattersDefense Innovation
The next defense breakthrough starts with the problem.
Defense innovation is often approached technology-first: develop something novel, then search for a customer.
We approach it differently.
Solid begins with an identifiable operational problem faced by the warfighter. We determine whether the problem is important, whether a customer exists, whether demand can support a meaningful business, and whether the right technology and team can deliver the solution.
Only then do we deploy capital.
Technology Advantage
We seek differentiated technologies capable of creating measurable improvements in operational capability.
Commercial Discipline
A defense problem alone does not make a business. We pursue opportunities where customer demand and economics can support scale.
Our Approach
Mission first. Technology second.
We do not begin by asking what technology we want to build. We begin by asking what problem needs to be solved.
FIG. B — THE SOLID DEFENSE INNOVATION FRAMEWORK / EARN THE RIGHT TO DEPLOY CAPITAL
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Important Defense Problem
Identify a consequential operational limitation.
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Identifiable Customer
Determine who owns the problem and has reason to solve it.
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Economically Meaningful Demand
Validate that solving the problem can support a sustainable enterprise.
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Technology + Team
Identify or assemble the technology and people capable of delivering the solution.
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Capital Deployment
Commit resources when the mission need, customer, technology, and economics align.
Areas of Interest
Technology is the means. Capability is the objective.
Solid is not constrained to a single technology category. We evaluate opportunities based on the defense problem they solve and the operational advantage they can create.
Intelligent Systems
Turning traditionally passive equipment and platforms into sources of actionable operational intelligence.
Power & Energy
Improving the availability, management, resilience, and intelligence of energy at the tactical edge.
Autonomous Systems
Extending warfighter reach and capability through robotics, autonomy, and intelligent machines.
Defense Electronics
Advancing sensing, communications, computing, control, and other enabling technologies required by modern military systems.
Emerging Defense Technologies
Evaluating technologies with the potential to solve important operational problems that may not fit neatly within established categories.
Contact
Build what the mission requires.
We work with technologists, operators, defense organizations, entrepreneurs, and industry partners who are solving meaningful problems for the warfighter.