Product profile
NOMAD
NOMAD is Tesseract Ventures’ containerized platform for transporting, launching, recovering, refitting and autonomously managing mixed drone fleets with mi...
Facts
- Company
- Tesseract Ventures
- Product type
- drone_fleet_support_system
- Status
- prototype
- Primary capability
- Containerized mixed-drone fleet operations
- Website
- https://www.tesseractventures.io/
About NOMAD
NOMAD packages drone storage, launch, recovery, maintenance and command equipment inside a transportable containerised system. The platform is intended to support mixed fleets and can manage aircraft preparation, mission assignment and post-flight turnaround from a shared operating site. Modular bays and interfaces accommodate different unmanned aircraft and payloads.
Tesseract Ventures is developing NOMAD for dispersed military operations requiring a small support crew and rapid relocation. The system was selected by the Defense Innovation Unit for the Contested Autonomous Drone Delivery System prototype programme. NOMAD remains in prototype development and government evaluation.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Fleet station
Core: NOMAD
Function: Drone logistics
Audience: Defence teams
Specifications
- deployment_model
- Containerized, minimal-personnel operation
- launch_status
- DIU CADDS prototype; follow-on production pathway available after successful prototype
- mission_functions
- Transport, launch, recovery, refit and autonomous fleet management
- payload_integration
- Mixed drone fleets
Operations
- Environment
- contested environments, austere sites, land and maritime operations
- Primary user
- military UAS operators, expeditionary logistics teams
- Role
- drone transport, launch and recovery, refit, mixed-fleet mission management
- Interaction model
- minimal-personnel supervised autonomy
- Mobility class
- mobile containerized support system
- Product detail
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