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Turn complex operational challenges into clear, actionable decisions
The Air Defense Problem
High Stakes, Rising Threats
The cost of error is huge
National Resilience
Policy or allocation errors can result in mass casualties, infrastructure collapse, or long-term national disruption.
Continuity of Operations
Operational resilience is increasingly compromised as air defense resource management falls behind the complexity, volatility, and accelerating dynamics of modern warfare, where evolving threats demand constant adaptation.
Strategic Resource Misallocation
Suboptimal decisions in force planning can lock in hundreds of millions in misallocated capital — funding inadequate platforms, marginal capabilities, or force structures misaligned with the threat.
The Vision
Democratization of Operation Research
We empower every level of command with high-grade analytical capabilities, previously reserved for dedicated research institutes and experts
Scenario Design
Configure and structure operational scenarios through an intuitive, guided process.
Decision-Grade Outputs
Automatically generated results, insights, and recommendations at a commander-relevant level.
Research Grade
Top-tier analytical depth, grounded in rigorous operations research methods.
Fast Iterations
From operational questions to quantified insight in hours, not months.
Persistent at Scale
Always available across the organization, with standardized analytical discipline.
The Mission: Air Defense
What Blackett Does
An operations research system for optimal blue defense against red threats, from procurement to force employment, at decision-makers' fingertips
🔬 Intuitive Research
Translate complex air defense planning into an intuitive, guided analytical framework for defining protection goals, threat scenarios, doctrine constraints, and measurable outcomes
🎯 Build Scenarios
AI-assisted, realistic air threat scenarios creation using structured, guided inputs and policies for red and blue forces
📊 Analysis
Quantify interception performance, coverage gaps, inventory dynamics, salvo sensitivity, leakage volumes into defended assets, and associated civilian and military consequence exposure
🧭 Decision Support
Provide transparent evaluation of Courses of Action—exposing risk trade-offs, interceptor allocation impacts, and protection shortfalls under evolving threat assumptions
Why Us
The Right Team at the Critical Moment
The founding team has known and worked together for over 20 years, collaborating in elite military units and later leading technology organizations in the tech sector
Haim Yona, Colonel (res.)
CEO
Psagot Graduate. Senior defense leader with 20+ years of IDF experience in the intersection of technology and operations. Led national-level system analysis during the "Iron Swords" war. Managed research organizations of 40+ researchers, while leading large, mission-critical analytical programs supporting decision-making at the highest national levels.
Liel Villa
CTO
Talpiot graduate. AI and data science leader with 20+ years of experience in operations research and advanced analytical systems. 10 years of IAF service. Led groups of 25+ researchers, translating complex models and analytics into scalable, production-ready systems. Founded and led a business unit that raised and deployed a $300M fund.
Dima Krochek
CPO
Talpiot graduate. Product and technology leader with 20+ years of experience in operations research and complex engineering systems. Led multi-disciplinary Groups of engineers across software, data, and data science, as well as product organizations of 20+ product managers, building large-scale, production-grade technology platforms.
Together, the founding team brings 40+ years of operations research experience and 25+ years leading production-grade technology and engineering teams
Why Now
The Window Is Open
Geopolitical Tensions & Uncertainty
The return of Full scale Wars
Defense Budget Surge
NATO 2% -> 5% of GDP
Global Military Experience Void
Little to no operational experience across nations, meeting Israeli experience
Speed of Threat Complexity
Fastest Rate of change in Military tech in history
AI Revolution
Allows for intuitive use and explainability of complex systems
In Practice
Decision Impact Domains
Where Blackett provides decisive advantage
Operation Planning
How to deploy the air defense systems to achieve optimal use of the force.
Procurement Planning
Quantify capability gaps, trade-offs, and cost-effectiveness across procurement options.
Operational Effectiveness Assessment
Evaluate operational impact across multiple threat scenarios, surface coverage and performance gaps, and produce data-driven recommendations to address them.
Real-Time Decision Making
React and manage the air defense policy as the battle unfolds.
Why Air Defense Planning Is Hard
Air Defense Policy Analysis
A continuous decision cycle adapting protection, deployment, inventory, and doctrine to evolving red threats, and blue capabilities, budgets, and priorities
Protection Definition
Define what to defend and at what level of assurance — spatial polygons, target classes, criticality, expected damage, quantity, and probability of attack.
Deployment Architecture
Optimize radar and launcher placement under terrain, technical, regulatory, and redundancy constraints while matching coverage to threat characteristics and scenario load.
Inventory Governance
Manage interceptor stockpiles through policy-driven thresholds, red lines, and adaptive allocation rules across evolving threat scenarios.
Engagement Doctrine
Formalize interception policy — which system engages which threat, under what conditions, at what timing, and with what priority across threat classes.
Revenue Model
Commercial Model
Core subscription + modular project work
Blackett Core Subscription
CoreEverything a customer needs to operate
Software (+ optional hardware)
Platform license and optional hardware provisioning
Installation & Training
Standardized onboarding, system configuration, and staff training
Strategic Advisory & Technical Support
Ongoing advisory and technical maintenance
Standardized deployment model across all customers
Modular Integration & Custom Projects
Optional add-ons
Internal System Integrations
Data ingestion, API connections, secure environment adaptation
Custom Modules & Capability Extensions
New analytical components or customer-specific functionality
Special Scenario Studies
Targeted analyses for defined operational questions
Based on evolving operational requirements
$ per projectThe Ask
$8M Seed Round
24-month roadmap to decision-grade General Availability
Product Roadmap
POC
Core Analytical Models
- Red-Blue Scenario Definition: Structured input of red and blue data, scenario configuration, protection goals, and blue deployment.
- Quantified Outcomes & Gaps: Leakage, interception performance, and gap analysis versus required protection levels.
MVP
Scenario Engine & Optimization
- Scenario & Defense Logic: Flexible scenario engine with OR-based definition of protection zones and priorities.
- Deployment Optimization & Comparison: Optimization of battery and launcher placement, policy insights, and comparison across alternative configurations.
General Availability
AI-Enhanced Platform
- AI Co-Pilot: LLM-powered intuitive, guided scenario building and explainable insights for decision-makers
- Real-time capabilities: live data fusion, interceptor logistics management, and rapid scenario evaluation to support time-critical battlefield decisions.
Multi-Domain Platform
Cross-Domain Expansion
- Domain Expansion: Incorporating Supply Planning and Perimeter Defense domains for holistic operational coverage beyond air defense.
- Unified Decision-Making: Cross-domain analysis enabling integrated resource allocation, synergized force deployment, and a comprehensive defense posture.
Capital Allocation
Current status — commitment from the Israeli Missile Defense Organization (HOMA) to a paid POC
Broader Vision
Expanding Beyond Air Defense
The same decision-analysis pipeline applies across multiple high-stakes domains
Supply Planning
- ●Stockpile sizing under uncertainty
- ●Consumption vs. replenishment trade-offs
- ●Stress-testing logistics assumptions
- ●Scenario-based inventory requirements
Perimeter Defense
- ●Persistent vs. surge coverage strategies
- ●Geographic asset allocation
- ●Detection vs. response-time trade-offs
Additional Mission Domains
Same methodology → uncertainty modeling → trade-off analysis → outcomes
Why “Blackett”?
Where Modern Operations Research Began
Baron Patrick Blackett
Patrick Blackett (1897-1974) was a British experimental physicist, naval officer, and one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
- 🎖️Pioneer of operations research — he built and led the first OR teams during WWII, transforming how the British military made decisions.
- 🏆Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1948) for his work on cosmic rays and nuclear physics.
- 📡Applied radar-enabled analysis to air defense and naval warfare, improving London's air defense efficiency and reshaping anti-submarine tactics in the Battle of the Atlantic.
We named our company after Blackett because we carry his mission forward — democratizing operations research for the modern battlefield.