Built from Operational Experience
Vector 21 Group was created to bridge the gap between tactical end users and technical solutions.
Our work is informed by experience across Force Reconnaissance, JTAC instruction, technical surveillance, tactical communications, range operations, ATAK-enabled workflows, unmanned systems, and field-integration environments.
We support organizations that need practical guidance from someone who understands both the operational problem and the technical work required to solve it. That includes evaluating available technology, defining realistic requirements, integrating systems, identifying limitations, developing training, and helping end users sustain the resulting capability.
Vector 21 is intentionally vendor-neutral. We are not committed to selling one manufacturer's equipment or forcing every customer into a fixed package. When commercially available technology can meet the requirement, we identify and integrate it. When it cannot, we help define what must be developed, modified, or tested.
The result is a disciplined path from operational need to usable capability.
Experience From the Operational Side of the Problem
Vector 21 Group is informed by years of experience, including Force Reconnaissance, JTAC instruction, technical surveillance, tactical communications, range operations, maritime deployments, and integration work supporting joint and special operations communities.
That background is combined with continuing research and hands-on work involving TAK-enabled systems, commercial unmanned technology, tactical networking, positioning and navigation, sensors, edge computing, and emerging operational technologies.
The value is not a résumé placed beside a product. It is the ability to recognize the difference between a technically impressive demonstration and a capability that operators can realistically carry, understand, maintain, and employ.
- Force Reconnaissance and special operations support
- JTAC instruction and air-ground integration
- Technical surveillance operations
- Tactical communications and data systems
- ATAK and TAK-enabled workflows
- Small unmanned and FPV systems
- Range and exercise integration
- Commercial technology evaluation
- Training and curriculum development
- Field testing and end-user validation
Active Research & Development
Vector 21 maintains active research and development efforts across tactical integration, unmanned systems, positioning and navigation, edge processing, sensors, communications, and TAK-enabled workflows.
Current work focuses on how commercially available and open technologies can be combined into modular, supportable capabilities. Areas of investigation include denied navigation and resilient PNT, early warning sensors and counter-UAS technology for unknown drones entering friendly networks, low-band long-range communications over mesh networks, data movement in connected and disconnected environments, onboard and edge processing, sensor integration, operator interfaces, field repairability, and the responsible transition of prototypes into usable training or operational systems.
Specific designs, architectures, test results, and customer-supported development efforts are not published prior to authorization or release.
Resilient Positioning
Exploring practical approaches for maintaining useful navigation and situational awareness in degraded environments.
Edge & Offline Workflows
Evaluating how systems can process, retain, synchronize, and distribute useful information across connected and disconnected operations.
Modular Unmanned Systems
Developing repeatable approaches to commercial component integration, field repair, payload flexibility, and lifecycle support.
TAK-Enabled Integration
Connecting sensors, platforms, operators, and data through practical, interoperable workflows.
Sensor & Data Fusion
Evaluating how multiple information sources can be presented with clear status, provenance, uncertainty, and system health.
Training Development
Turning new technology into structured, teachable, maintainable organizational capability.