DIU selects Tesseract Ventures for CADDS drone-fleet prototype
The Defense Innovation Unit selected Tesseract Ventures to demonstrate its NOMAD containerized infrastructure for transporting, launching, recovering, refitting and autonomously managing mixed drone fleets.
Evidence notes
- The prototype targets mixed fleets operated with minimal personnel.
- A successful prototype may transition to follow-on production without a new competition.
Company context
Tesseract Ventures is an American invention and engineering company developing autonomous logistics, mixed-drone fleet infrastructure and fieldable defence systems. Its NOMAD architecture packages aircraft transport, storage, launch, recovery, refit and fleet management into a containerized platform. The US Defense Innovation Unit selected the company for the CADDS prototype programme in July 2026.