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Capability-gap prototyping
Tell us the gap. We come back with working hardware in weeks, designed with operators and built for the place it's going.
Most defense technology dies in the gap between a good idea and a fielded system. BuildMo closes that gap with fast prototyping, worldwide delivery, and training from people who still deploy.
Tell us the gap. We come back with working hardware in weeks, designed with operators and built for the place it's going.
Hands-on courses that run three to five days: drone building and flying, CAD and 3D printing, radios and counter-drone tools. Taught by instructors with battlefield and disaster-zone experience.
Your operators learn to maintain and adapt every system we deliver. You should not need us forever. That's the goal.
Most new defense technology never makes it to the field. There is no shop to toughen it, no route to get it there, and no operators trained to keep it running. BuildMo is the bridge across that gap.
Proven in the lab. Funded. Shown at a conference. Still not in anyone's hands.
Fewer than 35% of transitions survive it. No prototype shop, no field access, no operator feedback, no sustainment plan.
In operators' hands, on four continents, with the training to run and adapt it.
Founded in 2015 as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, BuildMo grew out of years of hands-on problem-solving in conflict zones and emergency response. We started by delivering Innovation Bootcamp directly to the warfighters who needed it most.
Ten years later, we have trained more than 10,000 service members and government officials. Our engineers still deploy to war zones and disaster areas to see the problem before we build the answer.
Getting from proof of concept to a tested prototype takes a shop, engineers, and access to the field. Labs are not built for that. We are.
Say you arrive at TRL 3 with a bench-top proof of concept, a paper, or a patent. We turn it into real hardware. We test it in the lab (TRL 4), then in a realistic setting like the range or the field (TRL 5). Then we demonstrate a working prototype to the people who matter (TRL 6).
From there we hand off: demos for end users and defense customers, manufacturing partners from our network, or your own path to market. You get documentation, test data, and trained operators.
Concept to working hardware in six weeks, designed for the environment it will actually be used in.
Commercial technology ruggedized, integrated and certified, then delivered where it is needed.
Every build ships with training, so your operators can run, repair and modify it without us.
Tell us the mission, the environment, and the timeline. We'll tell you what we'd build and how fast.
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