Veteran-owned small business · Mesa, AZ

Load-bearing engineering for uncrewed programs.

Stanchion builds the subsystems, payloads and ground software that primes need integrated and would rather not staff. Non-kinetic C-ISR, counter-UAS and uncrewed platforms across air, ground and sea — designed to your interface, sourced outside China, delivered as a subcontractor who already carries the compliance.

SDVOSB · SBA VetCert CAGE <pending> NAICS 336411 · 334511 · 541715 · 811219 CMMC Level 1
01 — Capability

Three things, done properly

We are a small R&D shop, and we say so. The scope below is what we can actually deliver against a schedule — not a catalog of everything adjacent to drones.

A

Uncrewed platforms & payloads

Modular airframes and ground vehicles built around a published mechanical, power and data interface, so the customer can reconfigure after delivery without coming back to us.

  • Quadcopter and fixed-wing ISR airframes
  • Wheeled and tracked ground platforms, field-modifiable
  • Coastal and survey USVs, 10–30 ft
  • Payload integration to an existing platform
B

Non-kinetic C-ISR & counter-UAS

Detection, signature management and deployable shelter concepts. Nothing we build carries a warhead, which keeps our customers clear of ordnance-class export and equity restrictions.

  • Signature-management and counter-UAS shelters
  • Detection and cueing integration
  • P25 / LTE / SATCOM gateway payloads
  • Public-safety and SAR comms packages
C

Readiness data & ground software

The layer most platform vendors treat as an afterthought. Fleet state, maintenance posture, mission data and the reporting a program office actually has to file — built on a decade of data-engineering work, not bolted on.

  • Fleet readiness and availability reporting
  • Mission data capture and chain of custody
  • Sustainment and spares forecasting
  • Ground control integration to existing stacks
02 — For primes

We are the easy line on your subcontracting plan

If you hold a contract over $900,000 you filed a small business subcontracting plan, you set an SDVOSB target in it, and you report against it in eSRS. We are certified, registered, insured and already through CMMC Level 1. One purchase order books the credit.

3%

The statutory government-wide goal for SDVOSB prime and subcontract dollars. Missing it is a documented finding at contract review. Material and subsystem supply is the cleanest way to close the gap — no on-site labor coordination, no licensing, no schedule entanglement.

We respond inside one business day, carry documentation ready for your eSRS filing, and hold NAICS coverage across four codes so one supplier relationship serves several lines.

01

Sustainment & field services

Spares, repair, battery management, firmware currency and field support on fielded systems. The work primes most want to hand off and least want to staff.

02

Training & certification

Operator and maintainer courses, courseware development, and the certification records a program office needs to see.

03

Test & evaluation support

Test planning, instrumentation, data capture and analysis for flight and ground test events — run to your test plan, reported in a form a program office can file.

04

Build to print

Component and subassembly manufacture against your drawings, with TAA-designated sourcing and full component traceability.

03 — Programs

Current work

Two funded internal prototypes. Both non-kinetic. Concepts are pre-decisional and posted at a level appropriate for public release.

ST-SH-210REDOUBT

REDOUBT — deployable counter-UAS & signature-management shelter

Rapidly emplaced protective structure for vehicles, equipment and personnel against small-UAS observation and attack. Passive and non-kinetic throughout — the design premise is being a hard target, not shooting back.

Kinetics
None
Status
Prototype funded
First article
FY2027
TRL
3 → 5
ST-PL-210RELAY

RELAY — airborne communications gateway

Airborne gateway bridging P25, LTE and SATCOM for search-and-rescue and disaster response, with a secure data layer that keeps custody of what the aircraft collected. Phase one is the integration bench; the flight article follows.

Kinetics
None
Status
Bench, phase one
Flight article
FY2028
TRL
2 → 4
04 — Compliance & supply chain

Clean by construction, not by exception

Our sourcing posture is a deliberate design constraint, set before the first BOM rather than remediated after an assessor opens the box.

CompliantNDAA Sec. 848 & ASDANo covered-foreign-entity content in flight-critical subsystems. Ownership and control wholly US, veteran-held.
CompliantTrade Agreements ActEnd products and components sourced from TAA-designated countries only. Taiwan, Japan, Korea and domestic suppliers.
In placeCMMC Level 1Self-assessment complete against the fifteen FAR 52.204-21 controls, with annual SPRS affirmation.
TraceableComponent provenanceOrigin documented to the board level, including magnet and IR-optic material sourcing. Ready for physical teardown assessment.
Blue UAS pathwaySubsystems designed against Blue UAS Framework component criteria from first article. Assessment planned once a platform partner is in place.
Export postureUnarmed, sub-300 km, under three hours endurance — deliberately inside the lighter EAR treatment established by the August 2026 BIS rule.
06 — Contact

Holding a funded program that needs a sub?

Tell us the scope, the schedule and the interface. We will tell you inside one business day whether we can hold it — and if we cannot, we will say so rather than learn on your program.

Subcontract Teaming agreement OTA CRADA SBIR D2P2 GSA / micro-purchase