Capabilities
TCOM architects the elevated awareness layer of the modern ISR network — surface to stratosphere, across the five domains of modern operations — and applies it to the seven mission categories below.
Situational Awareness & ISR
See first. Stay watching.
Persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance from elevated platforms — fusing detection, identification, and tracking into a single common operating picture across the surface-to-stratosphere portfolio.
Aircrafts refuel. Satellites pass overhead.
TCOM's elevated platforms hold station for as long as the mission demands.
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Stratospheric Balloons · Aerostat Systems · Tethered UAS · Radar & Mobile Towers
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EO/IR · SAR · ELINT · SIGINT · COMINT · WAMI · Multi-spectral
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Nearly 10M aerostat flight hours · Deployed in 20 nations · 100+ payloads integrated · U.S. Army Program of Record (PD SAI / PD Aerostats) · TARS for U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Distant Warning & Detection
Detect before they expect.
Long-range, persistent radar detection across air, ground, and maritime domains. Elevated platforms push the detection envelope hundreds of kilometers beyond ground sensors — buying the seconds and minutes that distinguish defense from defeat. Track fusion correlates radar, IFF, and ELINT into a single common operating picture.
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Aerostat Systems (71M / 117M strategic class) · Radar & Mobile Towers · Stratospheric Balloons
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AESA radar · IFF · ELINT integration · Track fusion software
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Continuous deployment in Israel, Asia, and the Middle East since the 1990s · Saudi Arabia $217.3M PSS-T · Poland ASRR ($1.2B program with TCOM as principal contractor)
Counter-UAS
Detect, identify, defeat.
Layered C-UAS architectures combining elevated detection, multi-sensor fusion, and effector integration. Elevated platforms see drones earlier; mission software hands off targets to effectors with the latency the threat requires. TCOM integrates the full chain from sensor to effector — not just the platform.
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Aerostat Systems · Tethered UAS (FALCON family) · Radar & Mobile Towers (HiPointer, Vista)
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Radar · EO/IR · RF detection · ELINT · Effector hand-off software
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Multi-sensor fusion across radar, EO/IR, RF, and ELINT correlated into a single operational picture · Modular, rapidly deployable site protection · TRL-9 sensors on active production lines
Critical Infrastructure & Force Protection
What can't go down stays up.
Persistent overhead presence and standoff detection for the bases, ports, refineries, power facilities, and borders that define mission and national continuity. Twenty-four hours a day, in any weather, with awareness that ground patrols and fixed sensors cannot deliver.
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Aerostat Systems (tactical 17M and 22M) · Tethered UAS (FALCON) · Radar & Mobile Towers
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EO/IR · Radar · Perimeter sensors · Comms relay
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TARS for U.S. CBP along the U.S.-Mexico border · Naval Base San Diego PSEAG demo · Active deployments at forward and CONUS bases, energy infrastructure, and power generation facilities
Border & Maritime Security
Watch the line. Watch the horizon.
Persistent wide-area surveillance over the borders and coastlines that define national security. From the U.S.-Mexico border to maritime exclusive economic zones, TCOM's elevated platforms deliver continuous awareness over open water and rugged terrain — where ground sensors cannot reach and aircraft cannot stay long enough. The line is only as strong as what watches it.
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Aerostat Systems · Radar & Mobile Towers · Tethered UAS · Stratospheric Balloons
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Maritime radar · AESA radar · EO/IR · WAMI · ELINT · Comms relay · Surface vessel tracking
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TARS (Tethered Aerostat Radar System) for U.S. Customs and Border Protection along the U.S.-Mexico border · U.S. Navy Air Surveillance Radar (Vista F50-ER1) deployed on USS Puller, MV Kellie Chouest, and USNS Trenton · DHS TARS and TAS programs · Allied maritime border programs in KSA, UAE, Singapore, and others · Aerostar Tillamook — the only FAA-designated UAS Test Range in a maritime environment
Communications
Reach where networks don't.
Beyond-line-of-sight communications, SATCOM relay, direct-to-handset cellular, and resilient mesh networking from elevated platforms. The places where networks are hardest to provide — austere terrain, contested environments, post-disaster zones — are the places they matter most.
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Stratospheric Balloons · Aerostat Systems · Tethered UAS
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SATCOM relay · Mesh radios (Silvus, MPU5, Trellisware) · Direct-to-handset cellular · BLOS data links · Link 16 (STT, MIDS)
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Persistent Systems collaboration on stratospheric mesh comms · Disaster-response communications restoration · Beyond-line-of-sight programs across U.S. and allied
Disaster Relief
When the networks go down.
When the fire jumps.
When the roads are gone.
Persistent overhead presence and restored communications for the moments when ground infrastructure fails. Stratospheric balloons reconstitute cellular service after disasters. Aerostats provide situational awareness for first responders. FALCON tethered UAS gives small teams an immediate eye in the sky. TCOM platforms connect, protect, and save lives — that's the mission.
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Stratospheric Balloons · Aerostat Systems · Tethered UAS
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EO/IR · Comms relay · Direct-to-handset cellular · Atmospheric and weather sensors
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Aerostar wildfire monitoring and post-hurricane communications restoration heritage · NASA Flight Opportunities Program · Cellular network reconstitution demonstrations · NW Regional Disaster Preparedness Organization UAS training
Scientific Research
The platforms that carry the science.
Long-duration, high-altitude platforms for atmospheric research, earth observation, and the kind of science that needs to stay aloft for days, weeks, or months. Custom payload integration. Mission planning aligned to the research, not to the platform.
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Stratospheric Balloons · Aerostat Systems · Aerostar Tillamook (Johnson Near Space Center)
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Atmospheric sensors · Telescopes · Earth observation payloads · Scientific instruments · Custom payload integration
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336-day controllable stratospheric flight world record (HBAL684, 2025) · NASA Flight Opportunities Program · 160+ stratospheric flights from Tillamook · 130,000 ft atmospheric test chamber · Advanced Space Materials capability (Venus exploration R&D)
Tell us about your mission.
Our business development and solutions architect team will recommend the platform and payload combination that fits.