In the Space Domain, American superiority was long unquestioned. Sensors, spacecraft, launchers, scientific and military payloads were all areas where the US government excelled. With the global proliferation of technology, however, other countries have developed strong space capabilities.
The share of US national security satellites in space is shrinking. Aggressive actions are being taken by our adversaries in space to counter US space capabilities. Recognizing this, the National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy have outlined the need to ensure US Freedom of Action in the space domain.
Meanwhile, the world of space technology has changed dramatically. New Space is very different from Old Space. Commercial firms are highly active in the space domain.
The space industry is more diverse, more global, and more democratic than before. Good ideas abound, and willing investors are found to help execute them. Technologies such as autonomy, artificial intelligence, quantum communications, material science, power systems, swarm control, and decision-making on the edge are rapidly transitioning from experiments to operationally systems with game changing performance. These developments can leave government acquisitions systems struggling to catch up, and national security space programs risk being obsolete even before
they are operational.
BlackVe was founded in 2024 for the explicit purpose of advancing US National Security in Space. We are a privately held company backed by Razor’s Edge Ventures, a private investment firm that exclusively invests in companies that serve US National Security needs. Each of our senior leaders has several decades of National Security space experience in industry and government. BlackVe was founded on the premise of providing quick-turn end-to-end mission system capabilities to meet US National Security needs. With an engineering team headquartered in Albuquerque, NM, an experienced leadership team with strong ties to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Communities, and the commitment to contribute private capital to ensure an on-time delivery at a lower cost to the government, BlackVe is uniquely positioned to provide innovative, responsive new capabilities to the National Security community.
BlackVe is inspired by the vision of using the flexibility and creativity of private industry to focus on national security.
We are inspired by the “Freedom’s Forge” achievements where private industry stepped in to ensure victory in World War II.
The “Arsenal of Democracy” initiatives directed the might of American industry to focus on the national interest, and achieved incredible manufacturing feats. It took 230 days to build a Liberty ship in 1941, but by 1943, America was launching 3 new ships each day. In 1939, the United States made a quarter of the planes that Germany did, but American production ramped up so effectively that over the course of World War II it produced more aircraft than Germany, Japan, and Italy put together – and more aircraft than Russia, Britain, and France put together.
We are even more inspired by the example of Alfred Lee Loomis whose unwavering mission to advance scientific capabilities in the service of the national interest led to game-changing advances in radar. Loomis did not wait for the government to recognize the advantages of radar: his team worked to create and integrate winning capabilities long before they were able to convince the government of radar’s potential to help win the war.
America has always been about liberating the genius of private industry. And when it is tapped in the national interest, American industry delivers. When there is a unifying mission and an impending crisis, America draws on its great strengths to forge a path to success.
It is this inspiration, this insight, this conviction that drives the people at BlackVe.