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Tailwind

Navigation without GPS, added to aircraft a unit already owns.

What it does

Tailwind lets an aircraft navigate visually when GPS is jammed or spoofed, from take off through landing. It comes as a 475g payload that bolts on, or as software with no extra hardware at all, running on the cameras and compute the aircraft already carries. That second path is what makes it scale: lifetime cost drops sharply and the capability spreads across an existing fleet without buying new airframes. Tailwind is passive, so it stays quiet in the spectrum.

KEF Robotics
Founded
2018
Company Size
11 to 50
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Track record
  1. Flown on more than 60 aircraft platforms across the U.S., Europe, and Ukraine, and deployed on commercial products used by the U.S. Army and Marines
  2. On the Teledyne FLIR Rogue 1, supporting the GOPPS and LASSO programs of record
  3. Validation tested by the USAF 413th Test Flight Squadron in November 2025, which produced a test report on integration and performance
Point of contact
Name
Olga Pogoda
Title
COO

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