Its rugged blue-and-white boxes do not transmit. They listen - then turn crowded radio noise into locations, alerts and evidence for militaries, regulators and intelligence teams.
A 58-person shop in upstate New York builds software-defined radar - and just landed on a defense contract worth up to $151 billion.
CHAOS Industries is a Los Angeles defense technology company building Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN), software-defined sensing systems that detect aerial and missile threats faster and cheaper than traditional radar. Founded in 2022, it makes distributed radar products like Vanquish and Astria for counter-drone, border, and homeland defense. By late 2025 the company had raised over $1 billion and reached a roughly $4.5 billion valuation.