Facts

• Segment: Perception
• Country: United States
• Website: https://www.hoodtechvision.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Hood Tech Vision builds stabilized imaging payloads for unmanned aircraft, aircraft, vehicles and boats. Its Alticam systems provide electro-optical and infrared sensing for UAV manufacturers and military users that need reliable aerial imaging, targeting and surveillance payloads.

Market context

Hood Tech payloads give tactical UAS builders compact stabilized imaging options for ISR mission payload sets, including AeroVironment JUMP 20 configurations that list HoodTech sensors as payload options. Hood Tech supplies compact stabilized electro-optical and infrared imaging payloads used on small unmanned aircraft and other moving platforms.

Facts

• Website: https://www.hoodtechvision.com/
• HQ: Hood River, Oregon, United States
• Segment: Perception

Stabilized imaging payloads for small unmanned aircraft

Hood Tech Vision supplies compact stabilized electro-optical and infrared payloads used on small unmanned aircraft and other moving platforms. The role is payload-level perception for ISR, mapping, inspection and surveillance missions.

• Target environment: Small UAS, aircraft payload bays, ISR missions, mapping, surveillance, inspection and mobile imaging from unstable platforms.
• Deployment model: Payload supplier model focused on EO/IR turrets, stabilization, low-SWaP packaging and integration into unmanned aircraft or mobile platforms.
• Customer context: UAS manufacturers, defence users, ISR operators, aircraft integrators, mapping teams and payload buyers needing stabilized imaging on small platforms.
• Workflow context: Airborne imaging, stabilized video, infrared sensing, mapping, inspection collection, surveillance and payload integration.
• Commercial maturity: Established specialist supplier in small UAS payloads. Hood Tech is best understood as an aerial robotics perception supplier rather than a drone OEM.
• Market position: Payload specialist competing on compact, stabilized sensing for aerial robotics.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on platform compatibility, payload weight and power budgets, optical performance, stabilization quality, export and defence procurement constraints, and competition from integrated…
• Adjacent context: EO/IR payloads, stabilized gimbals, UAS imaging, ISR sensors, aerial mapping and inspection payloads.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-05-13 - Capability - Hood Tech reports successful FLARES autonomous flight software tests - Hood Tech Mechanical reported that the newest version of FLARES autonomous flight software completed four live flight test…

Context tags

• Defence customers - Customer Environment
• Public safety operations - Customer Environment
• Persistent tethered surveillance - Workflow
• Tethered drone OEM - Stack Layer
• Tethered drone system supplier - Peer Group

Customers and deployments

• Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2014-04-28 - Hood Tech Vision delivers 1,200 cooled MWIR stabilized UAV payloads - source posture: Company Disclosed