Kestrel Corporation

Sensing and understanding your world in a whole new way! is what Kestrel Corporation is all about. The company specializes in imaging and sensing Products and Systems to solve unique and challenging problems. Clients and customers exist in Defense, Security, Safety and Health markets. Platforms have included satellite, aircraft, very high-altitude balloon, helicopter, water and terrestrial, and biomedical devices. Kestrel’s fortés are: 1) Spectral Imaging, delivering a 4X to 8X greater detection sensitivity and identification specificity compared to spatial resolution alone, and an enabling technology for machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) based processing; 2) Distortion Compensation, delivering 2X to 3X greater resolution/range enabling imaging in difficult and challenging operational environments; 3) Standoff Trace Chemical Sensing, delivering real-time non-contact liquid, solid and vapor hazardous materials detection and decontamination surety. The company is a small, veteran-owned business with over 29 years of experience, over 130 projects and more than 30 patents. The company’s strategy is to collaborate closely with clients to understand what they need in a product or system, focus on innovation, systems engineering and integration, rapidly prototype and quickly meet client requirements and do so at an affordable price. Kestrel routinely teams with other world-class organizations to provide specialty capabilities to take on more complex and larger projects than our size might indicate. The company has won numerous awards to include a NATO Science Prize, multiple Small Business Innovative Research Success Stories, and recently 3 Rapid Innovation Fund congressionally-funded awards.