1Aardvark designs and orchestrates distributed missions — connecting space assets, data, applications, and operators into one autonomous mission network, with command and control that keeps operating when communications cannot be guaranteed.
How we work, in three layers. Every engagement starts with the mission, runs through one engineering team, and delivers distributed mission autonomy built to survive contact.
We start where the mission starts — with the warfighters and operators who depend on it, and the autonomous systems that increasingly execute it. Our team has spent careers inside DoD, IC, and Space programs, and it shapes everything: we engineer for the environment the mission actually runs in, not the one the diagram assumes — human in the loop, on the loop, or fully autonomous.
Satellites, ground stations, sensors, and operators increasingly depend on one another — yet many mission systems still assume reliable connectivity and centralized processing. In contested environments, those assumptions fail:
One team engineers the entire stack — board-level embedded software, containerized services, AI and analytics, and the mission interface itself. Concept to operations, without handoffs.
Board-level, real-time engineering — RTOS to bare metal — with direct hardware interfaces, deployed to constrained edge devices and validated hardware-in-the-loop on embedded benches.
Compressed timelines from concept to live demonstration — containerized, microservice-based software working in weeks, shaped by operator feedback.
Secure pipelines, NIST 800-171 alignment, and MOSA-compliant architectures built in from the first commit — extending through machine learning and AI: model pipelines, data integrity, and explainable outputs.
Full-spectrum systems engineering — requirements to fielding — integrating with the platforms and data customers already own.
Interfaces aren’t a specialty on the side — they’re the last mile of full-stack delivery. Because we build everything beneath the screen, from embedded software to the distributed data layer, we know what a distributed mission needs to show and how to render it in real time: orbital views, interactive scheduling and mission planning, and track displays — aligned to the USSF Astro style guide on performant thin-client architectures.
Interfaces follow the USSF Astro style guide, so operators get a familiar experience from day one.
Live data feeds, scheduling, resource management, and domain awareness unified in one interface — not another isolated tool.
Cloud-native, micro-services, MOSA-aligned — experience deploying across government and commercial platforms.
Autonomy is the destination: mission applications that keep coordinating — and keep executing command and control (C2) — when links degrade and nodes drop. Operators set intent; the network carries it out. We build these applications as composable modules on a shared distributed backbone — signal processing, space operations, networking, analytics, security, and C2. Compose the bundle each mission needs; adopt one module or several — government, partner, and third-party applications integrate through documented interfaces, no ecosystem replacement required.
Local autonomy, disrupted comms, and resynchronization are founding assumptions — not retrofits.
From cloud architectures to embedded boards and FlatSat benches — the full path to the mission edge.
Assessments carry evidence and plain-language rationale. Operators stay on the loop — and the same rule governs our AI/ML: models surface confidence, evidence, and provenance, so machine assessments can be interrogated, not just trusted.
Capabilities mature on open data with a deliberate path to operational environments.
Validated on embedded test benches — demonstrations you can put hands on, not slideware.
1Aardvark is built by engineers, program leaders, and veterans who have spent their careers delivering mission-critical capabilities for the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the U.S. Space enterprise. Meet the team setting the strategy.
Air Force veteran turned founder. 17+ years developing and delivering capabilities for DoD, IC, and Space.
Physicist, program manager, and operator. Scaled an enterprise Space office from $2M to $15M.
Chief Architect turned VP. 17 years across distributed systems, AI, and missile defense.
Ryan founded 1Aardvark in 2023 after nearly two decades at the intersection of national security, space systems, and emerging technology. An Air Force veteran with 17+ years supporting DoD and IC missions, he has secured multimillion-dollar contract awards and championed innovative capabilities including space-based Distributed Ledger Technology.
Before 1Aardvark, Ryan served as Vice President of Business Development for Space at Altamira Technologies, where he stood up a five-year space pipeline, broke into new SDA and IC programs, and led capture across pursuits ranging from $5M to $250M. Earlier, he held capture and program management roles at Northrop Grumman Space Systems and Mission Systems, including a forward-deployed assignment in South Korea supporting U.S. and Republic of Korea operations.
His career began in the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence analyst and mission planner for the U-2 ISR platform — laying the operational foundation that still shapes how he approaches the customer’s mission today.
Miles leads operations at 1Aardvark, bringing 13+ years of experience building and managing engineering programs at the intersection of physics, software, and national security missions. A PMP-certified program manager, he pairs deep technical fluency with the financial and strategic instincts of an executive operator.
Before joining 1Aardvark in 2024, Miles spent nearly a decade at Altamira Technologies, where he founded and grew the company’s Denver-based Space Emerging Technologies office. As Director of Space Programs, he built a 45-person engineering team from scratch and scaled the portfolio from $2M to $15M in annual revenue — leading proposal efforts that captured more than $50M in new business while maintaining 96% year-over-year retention.
Miles started his career as a research engineer at Signature Research, designing signal processing algorithms and conducting detailed analysis on multispectral systems for the Intelligence Community.
Christian leads technology at 1Aardvark, drawing on 17 years of engineering experience across distributed systems, AI, and missile defense. He oversees technical strategy, system design, and product execution — with a focus on modular applications and the distributed data backbone that makes them scalable, interoperable, and AI-ready.
Before joining 1Aardvark, Christian spent more than 13 years at Northrop Grumman as a Chief Architect, Staff System Engineer, and Technical Fellow. He led the ADDER program for MDA and SDA — an autonomous distributed tracking system ported to embedded hardware for on-orbit 3D tracking — and co-authored an NGC patent for AI Missile Typing that transitioned from IRAD to a fielded program. He was selected for the NGC AI/ML Cohort in 2021 and the NGC Leadership Conference that same year.
He brings a rare combination of hands-on engineering depth and program-level architectural vision.
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