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.
- The Defense Innovation Unit selected Tesseract Ventures to demonstrate its NOMAD containerized infrastructure for transporting, launching, recovering, refitting and autonomously managing mixed drone fleets.
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.