01 · The environment
GPS denied. Datalink jammed. The environment where everything else fails.
Contested airspace strips a drone of the signals it was built around. Kestrel assumes that from the first frame: perception runs onboard, decisions stay with the operator, and the track does not depend on anything the adversary can take away.
02 · Capability
Perception that never loses lock.
Small aerial targets found at range, against sky, terrain, and clutter. Onboard, in real time.
The track survives evasion — banks, dives, hard jinks. Reacquisition is automatic when occlusion breaks the line of sight.
Track state and confirmation to the operator. Telemetry buffers on link loss and flushes on reconnect. A human makes the call.
Detect → Track → Report → Human decision
03 · Architecture
System architecture
Perception and tracking run onboard. Guidance-free. The operator makes the call.
04 · The product
MODULE · FOVEA
FOVEA
The perception module. Detect, track, report — onboard, without GPS.
TRL 4 · self-assessed
Measured — validated today
MEASURED = benchmark evaluation. Software module today — no sealed hardware unit yet.
05 · Measured performance
Measured performance
86.5%
Recall · small aerial targets
held-out evaluation set · in-distribution
~93% at confidence 0.25
~96% at confidence 0.40
Clutter / bird rejection
classifier stage
Confidence is calibratable across a characterized precision / recall / false-alarm-rate curve.
Single threshold · characterized sweep
Figures from benchmark evaluation, not field data.
All footage on this page: system demonstration — synthetic scenario.
06 · For drone manufacturers
A module, not a platform.
Kestrel FOVEA drops into your airframe, your autopilot, your concept of operations — with onboard tracking that does not need GPS.
Delivered as a software perception module.
Runs on COTS embedded compute, via ONNX. No custom silicon, no cloud dependency.
GPS-independent operation. Visual track and cueing when signals fail.
One interface, regardless of airframe.
07 · Contact
Request a briefing.
Request a briefingtraianharabor13@gmail.com
For integrators, programs, and investors.
Applicant · NATO DIANA 2026