CHAOS

CHAOS Industries builds defense systems designed to be produced at scale. Its premise is that the threats of the next decade, cheap drones and missiles launched in volume, cannot be answered by exquisite systems that cost hundreds of millions and take years to field. The alternative is resilient, lower-cost hardware that can be built fast and replaced fast.

The company’s core technology is what it calls Coherent Distributed Networks: many inexpensive sensor nodes operating together as one. Its first product, Vanquish, is a multistatic radar for early warning and tracking of drones, missiles, and aircraft. The expeditionary version deploys in under an hour and, by the company’s account, has logged more than 15,000 hours of tracking. Astria extends the approach to long-range persistent monitoring. In 2026 CHAOS added the VESPID family of low-cost, radar-guided interceptors, under 12 pounds and launched from existing tube systems, to defeat Group 1–3 drones at a fraction of legacy interceptor cost.