Top 24 Military Mission Planning and Control startups

Updated: May 14, 2026
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These companies are creating advanced C4ISREW, C5I software for military mission planning, resource allocation and tactical decision-making.
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Anduril
Country: USA | Funding: $11.4B
Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance. Provider of AI-based surveillance and reconnaissance solutions for the defense sector. It offers an autonomous operational platform based on sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to monitor and control warfare assets.
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Kela Technologies
Country: Israel | Funding: $299M
Kela is developing software platform for Western armies designed to connect and manage multiple components essential for military operations (communications equipment, phones, night vision devices, sensors, radars, encryption devices...). The system collects data from multiple sources, processes it in real time, and presents it through a single management interface for monitoring connected systems and assets. Built on an open and modular architecture, the platform allows armies to implement new technologies without requiring significant changes to existing systems. This approach is designed to help defense organizations more quickly deploy new capabilities.
3
Picogrid
Country: USA | Funding: $57M
Picogrid creates the hardware/software platform Legion for integrating military products from other companies—from drones to radars, sensors, and software. It combines information from various systems to integrate physical assets, optimize data, and connect to operational tools such as ATAK, Palantir's Maven intelligence system, and other platforms. The company also produces Helios, a portable expeditionary command and control node that provides the physical hardware infrastructure and edge computing to connect various field assets with each other and with Legion, and Portal, a more compact edge computing and networking node that fits in a backpack for dismounted operations. The company partners with giants like Northrop Grumman and startups including CHAOS Industries, CX2, radar maker Echodyne, Skydio, and Palantir.
4
Forterra
Country: USA | Funding: $699.3M
Forterra is developing TerraLink, an intelligent military mission management system that coordinates UGV and troop actions on the battlefield. The system features distributed control, dynamic routing, and real-time response. Based on TerraLink, the company aims to create an open, modular ecosystem for integrating various equipment and vehicles into a single network. The company is also developing AutoDrive, own autopilot for UGVs that manages dynamic driving tasks in real time in tactical environments. This hardware-software system implements localization, perception, behavior generation and wire-based vehicle control functions for performing complex missions.
5
UForce
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $50M
UForce produces Magura unmanned boats, which have engaged more than a dozen warships and participated in hundreds of missions - from area denial to launching strike groups, underwater reconnaissance and supply. They boast high autonomy and are resistant to electronic warfare. The company also produces the Nemesis - reusable heavy UAV for bombing, reconnaissance, surveillance, communications relay and electronic warfare; LIUT - reconnaissance and combat unmanned ground vehicle capable of engaging ground and air targets at ranges of up to 2 km; integrated anti-UAV defense system capable of engaging targets; and C2 platform for command and control of combat operations.
6
Farsight Vision
Country: Ukraine | Funding: €7.8M
Farsight Vision develops geospatial intelligence platform that connects drone pilots and video users for analytics and situational awareness using 3D models. The system integrates data from the battlefield and unmanned platforms in real time (creating an alternative to satellite surveillance). Thus, it creates an "integration layer" for planning and executing missions using UAVs and UGVs. The company's goal is to create a "continuously updated world model" that both humans and autonomous systems can rely on to understand terrain, infrastructure and changing conditions.
7
Booz Allen
Country: USA | Funding: $3B
Booz Allen delivers tomorrow’s technologies at the heart of the defense mission: Multidomain integration for command and control, Immersive training analytics solutions, Geopolitical analysis to anticipate risks, local storage syber defense solution.
8
Helsing
Country: Germany | Funding: €1.4B
Helsing is a new type of defence AI company. We believe that software, in particular artificial intelligence, will be the key to protecting our democracies. It employs AI and software to enable faster and more accurate decision-making, and the utilisation of data at the tactical, operational, and strategic level.
9
Elbit Systems
Country: Israel | Funding: $812M
Elbit Systems develops, manufactures, and integrates defense electronics and electro-optic systems for customers.
10
BlueHalo
Country: USA | Funding: $723.2M
BlueHalo is the transformation of modern warfare in defense and space. Acquired by AeroVironment
11
Hanwha Systems
Country: South Korea | Funding: $251M
Hanwha Systems is an aerospace company providing defense electronics and smart ICT solutions.
12
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Country: Israel
Rafael develops and manufactures advanced defense systems for the Israeli Defense Forces.
13
Rebellion Defense
Country: USA | Funding: $150M
Rebellion Defense builds the modern mission stack to detect and deter adversaries at scale by analyzing multi-source data at speed.
14
Thales Group
Country: France
Thales develops C4ISR systems, which stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
15
IAI
Country: Israel
Israel Aerospace Industries develops and manufactures military and commercial aerospace and defense systems.
16
DEWC Systems
Country: Australia
DEWC Services is Australia’s foremost C4ISREW specialist, providing the Australian Defence Organisation and industry partners with mission critical operational and technical experience in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare.
17
Avalon Holographics
Country: Canada | Funding: $35.9M
Avalon Holographics creates holographics for battlespace visualizations. Its Light Field Displays (LFDs) paint an accurate, detailed 3D picture of the battlespace, including all assets and targets within range.
18
Blackshark.ai
Country: Austria | Funding: $35M
blackshark.ai geospatial platform extracts insights about the planet’s infrastructure from current satellite and aerial imagery via machine learning at global scale. Missing attributes are enriched by AI to provide a photorealistic, geo-typical, or asset specific digital twin.
19
Comand AI
Country: France | Funding: €11.5M
Comand AI empowers defense forces with unparalleled decision-making and operating capabilities.
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The ICZ Group
Country: Czech Republic
The ICZ Group develops C4ISTAR Ground Force Systems and Command and Control Systems of Air Force and Armed Forces
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