Problem
Cost asymmetry between offense and defense has rendered America helpless against mass-manufactured threats.
Mission
Kinetic delivers defense for less than the cost of offense.
Defense is overly specialized. Kinetic builds generalizable countermeasures for an order of magnitude less than the threat costs to deploy. The process of building inexpensive hardware is different than expensive hardware. While other groups focus on exquisite systems, Kinetic builds generalizable systems to outpace our adversaries through scale.
Scarecrow
In a world of cat and mouse between hardened electronics and jamming technologies, kinetic defeat solutions are needed to ensure the protection of critical assets.
The Future of Warfare
"The United States has developed a patchwork of missile defense systems over decades, each tailored to specific threats, yet this fragmented approach—costing hundreds of billions—leaves us vulnerable to the growing sophistication of adversarial arsenals, from hypersonic weapons to overwhelming salvos that our defenses simply cannot counter."
- Sanne Verschuren, Professor of International Security at Boston University