Highlander Companions, L.P. (“Highlander”), a number one personal funding agency, on January thirty first introduced the acquisition of Black Sage Applied sciences (“Black Sage” or “the Firm”) from Acorn Progress Firms. Based in 2014 and headquartered in Boise, ID, Black Sage is an industry-leading multi-mission platform supplier of Counter Unmanned Plane Programs (“C-UAS” or “Counter-UAS”) and safety options for navy, inner safety, and important infrastructure industries.
The rise of drone exercise has created an instantaneous want for stylish C-UAS programs and options to guard towards threats to individuals and important infrastructure. Black Sage has established itself as a frontrunner within the C-UAS area with its proprietary, extremely superior, scalable open structure DefenseOS command and management (“C2”) software program. DefenseOS delivers main automation capabilities, together with AI/ML automated goal recognition and menace analysis, ISR performance, digital warfare, and kinetic and non-kinetic effectors. The Firm operates as an integrator of over 40 cohesive sensor and effector programs. This functionality facilitates an providing of extremely configurable and hardware-agnostic programs which are custom-made to suit mission targets and buyer requisites. Such flexibility ensures that clients are capable of deal with evolving UAS threats.
In 2022, Highlander fashioned Excessive Level Aerotechnologies (“Excessive Level”) as a division of Highlander to help in civilian and navy protection investments particularly associated to the quickly evolving C-UAS and UAS sectors. Highlander has shortly made vital progress with this initiative. Black Sage represents Highlander’s second centered C-UAS acquisition and enhances the C-UAS platform that was established in late-2022 with Highlander’s acquisition of Liteye Programs. It’s the third total associated funding, together with the latest UAS acquisition of Dzyne Applied sciences. The assembled Excessive Level staff now consists of a wide range of established leaders with backgrounds in protection, authorities, and expertise, every of whom will help Black Sage on tactical alternatives, authorities relations, regulatory and legislative issues, rising applied sciences, and development initiatives.
Al White, CEO of Black Sage commented, “The Black Sage govt staff is happy to affix forces with Highlander and Excessive Level to proceed our development trajectory within the C-UAS, crucial infrastructure, and safety markets. The necessity for efficient multi-mission C-UAS options is more and more evident and we imagine that Highlander will deliver the required authorities and navy relationships, {industry} expertise, and long-term monetary strategy to speed up our targets in driving the enterprise ahead.”
Ben Slater, Accomplice and COO of Highlander, commented, “The acquisition of Black Sage marks Highlander’s third C-UAS/UAS acquisition because the formation of Excessive Level in Might 2022, reconfirming our technique of concentrating on expertise leaders in these high-growth, growing sectors. We’re assured that Black Sage, with its extremely superior programs, will additional our mission of making world-class, cutting-edge options to help within the protection of our armed forces, allies, and important infrastructure. We’re thrilled to accomplice with the complete Black Sage staff.”
Jeff L. Hull, President and CEO of Highlander, added, “Black Sage has solidified a management function within the rising C-UAS class. Its built-in options, pushed by their extremely superior DefenseOS software program, present a differentiated resolution to the market. We’re extremely impressed with the imaginative and prescient of the Black Sage staff and look ahead to working collectively to satisfy the big and rising want for efficient counter-drone protection options.”
