Counter-UAS
Detect, identify, decide, defeat — one air picture, one operator. Defeat options ranked by the picture; the trigger stays human.
Passive-default detect · human-gated defeat
Multi-Domain Decision-Support Operating System
When every domain hits at once, one operator holds the picture.
DaggerOS fuses every threat — air, ground, sea, spectrum, space — into a single operator picture that runs air-gapped on commodity hardware. Passive by default. Commanded hands-free by voice. Every effect committed through one human gate, on a tamper-evident record.
The AI recommends. A human decides.
STATUS TRL 7–8 · DEMONSTRATED T-REX 26-2
DOCTRINE DoDD 3000.09
POSTURE PASSIVE-DEFAULT · AIR-GAPPED
Real footage
The doctrine, in one line
One operator. Every domain. Nothing phones home.
When threats arrive across the spectrum at once, DaggerOS fuses them into a single picture one person can hold — and act on, through one human gate. No cloud. No call-home. The record stays on the box.
Air-gapped by architecture
Passive by default
Zero external network calls
Human-in-command
The numbers that matter
In a category that boasts about performance, the number that matters is zero.
0
External network calls — measured live in your browser, not asserted
~6ms
Sensed state to a decision-ready proposal — machine speed
TRL 7–8
Demonstrated at T-REX 26-2, May 2026 — live, third-party
10:1
Ten mission domains, one platform, behind one human gate
0 EXTERNAL CALLS ON LOAD · 0 AUTONOMOUS ENGAGEMENT PATHS · 0 UNSEALED RECORDS
Where we stand apart
The decision stays human — and the record proves it.
The category sells autonomy, connectivity, and "trust us." DaggerOS is built on the opposite emphasis — the three things a program office actually has to answer for.
The category
Connected by default — a cloud, a mesh, a backbone. Cut the link and the system degrades.
BlackByrne · DaggerOSAir-gapped by architecture.
Zero external network calls, measured live. Nothing to call home to. Nothing to lose.
The category
The AI acts at machine speed; the human supervises, or catches up after.
BlackByrne · DaggerOSA human decides.
The machine proposes and stages. Every effect commits through one human gate. No autonomous path, in any domain.
The category
Trust the vendor. Take the record on faith.
BlackByrne · DaggerOSVerify it yourself.
Hold the gate, break the hash chain, hash a served asset — in your own browser. See for yourself →
The moment we were built for
Five screens, five people, five chances to miss it. Or one.
The legacy answer to a multi-domain attack is more operators at more consoles — more alerts, more handoffs, more seams to fall through. A drone, a jammer, a spoofed track and a cyber probe arrive in the same sixty seconds, on four unconnected screens.
DaggerOS fuses it into one picture for one operator. One sensor gives you a bearing, not a fix. Add a phenomenology — each one receive-only — and the error ellipse collapses to a fix. The noise collapses into a decision.
LEGACY C2 — SATURATED
14 alerts
5 seams
which one kills you?
DAGGEROS — FUSED
1 picture
1 gate
one operator holds it.
How it works
Sense → Decide → Effect. Every time, in that order.
DaggerOS is not a dashboard bolted onto sensors. It is a weapon-system operating system: one console that perceives across every domain, reasons with cited evidence, and surfaces a course of action — then waits for a human to authorize the effect. The order never inverts.
Sense
Fuse every phenomenology into one picture.
Radio-frequency, electro-optical/infrared, acoustic, seismic and other passive phenomenologies correlate into a single tracked picture spanning air, ground, maritime and space — not a wall of separate dashboards to mentally stitch together. Sensing is receive-only unless a human authorizes otherwise, in every domain, by default.
RX-ONLY · PASSIVE-DEFAULTDecide
Reason over the picture, with cited evidence.
An on-box reasoning layer ranks candidate courses of action against the live picture and the doctrine it is bound to — about six milliseconds from sensed state to a decision-ready proposal — and shows its grounding rather than a bare recommendation. It surfaces options. It does not resolve ambiguity by acting.
PROPOSE-ONLY · NO ARMEffect
Commit only on human authorization.
From an electronic-attack effect to a kinetic intercept, every effect — regardless of domain — routes through the same single authorization gate, and is written to a signed, tamper-evident record the instant it is committed. There is no path around the gate for any domain.
HUMAN-GATED · SEALED ON COMMITNo autonomous engagement path exists, in any domain. This is architecture, not a setting an operator or an administrator can switch off.
The real cockpit
Not a render. The actual operating picture.
One operator, every domain, on one screen — sensing, fusing, and resolving a threat from first detection to a decision. What you see is the real system in operation. The operational detail is deliberately obscured for release: the capability is real, the specifics stay ours.
Live operating picture
Orient
An unknown emitter detected, fixed, and tracked toward a hostile decision — one radial picture, one operator.
Forensic
A signal resolved to a signature and geolocated — every read logged to a defensible record.
Analysis
Classification, persistence and geolocation converge over time — confidence you can defend.
Ten mission domains, one picture
The same spine, re-tasked to every fight.
Each domain is a spoke; the operator holds the hub. Every entry is effect-level — what it does and how it is postured, never the technique underneath. Techniques, parameters and sensor internals are export-controlled and are deliberately not described.
Electronic Warfare
Read the spectrum receive-only, correlate emitters to the fused picture, and commit an electronic-attack effect only on authorization.
Receive-first · effect human-gatedSignals Intelligence
Passive direction-finding fused with every other phenomenology, building an emitter order-of-battle over time — without ever radiating.
Passive collection · no transmitElectro-Optical / Infrared
Visual and thermal confirmation tied to the same track; flags movers, cues hot-spots, adds range without active illumination.
Passive imaging · fused to trackSATCOM & Space Domain Awareness
Hold the link picture and the sky above it in one place; classify a degraded link and characterize an interferer.
Passive monitoring · no counterspaceCBRN Detection
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear — corroborated across modalities before an indicator becomes a warning.
Detect & identify onlyMaritime Domain Awareness
Surface and subsurface contacts on one picture that assumes non-cooperation — dark vessels stay tracked when they stop reporting.
Passive-default · human-gated effectGround Robotics (UGV)
Send the machine, keep the decision. Routes and maneuvers are proposals the operator authorizes; a single gesture recalls the fleet.
Human-in-command · every motion authorizedResilient PNT
Hold position and precise time through GPS degradation, denial and spoofing; characterize the interference as an intelligence product.
Continuity under denialCyber Defense
Passive network and OT monitoring mapped to a recognized adversary-tactic framework, so findings are auditable against a standard.
Passive, defensive · framework-mapped
Human-in-command · DoDD 3000.09
One gate. Every domain. No exceptions.
Press and hold. The effect commits only while a human sustains the hold — let go before the ring closes and nothing commits. There is no path that authorizes an effect without a sustained human hold, here or in the operating system.
- One gate serves every domain — counter-UAS, EW, cyber, kinetic. There is no separate fast path for any capability.
- The system can recommend and rank. It cannot arm, fire, transmit an effect, or act on its own initiative under any condition.
- Authorization is explicit and attributable to the person who gave it — never inferred from a timeout or a default state.
- Enforced in the architecture — not a policy switch a future release or an administrator could quietly turn off.
◐ ARMED-SAFE · NO AUTONOMOUS PATH
BlackEcho · on-box · offline · hands-free
Six commands. One trigger. All yours.
BlackEcho · the operator's advisor
Command the battlespace by talking to it.
BlackEcho is the offline mind inside DaggerOS. Speak — or type — in plain language, and it hears the intent behind the words. It sees your whole system at once, reasons across all of it, and tells you the hard call in a cold, decisive voice.
Launch a drone or a whole swarm, run a search pattern, hold a sensor on a target, stage an electronic-warfare effect — by voice, hands-free, while your eyes stay on the fight. It runs entirely on the box, offline and air-gapped, nothing leaving the device. It proposes, plans, and stages without limit — and executes the instant you authorize. It never fires, emits, or authorizes a consequential effect on its own.
The machine is the speed. You are the authority.
Evidence in the core
A record worth trusting is a record you can watch break.
Every decision-relevant event — a detection, a fused track, a proposal, the operator's authorization, the effect that followed — is written to an append-only record. Each entry is sealed with a hash that also depends on the hash before it. Edit any sealed field below and watch the chain break, in your own browser.
01 · DETECTION
Unknown emitter
● SEALED
sha256 …
02 · PROPOSAL
Course of action — ranked
● SEALED
sha256 …
03 · AUTHORIZATION
Human gate — sustained hold
● SEALED
sha256 …
04 · EFFECT
Committed & recorded
● SEALED
sha256 …
Chain intact — every block verifies against the one before it.
Verify this page yourself
Don't take our word for it. Check it.
Press the button and your own browser fetches the exact bytes of a served asset, hashes them with SHA-256, and checks the result against the value this page publishes in its own source. Nothing to trust — only something to check.
Published: sha256 cae0cc48…621a7752
Proven in the field · not asserted
Independent conditions beat a slide deck.
DaggerOS was taken to the line and run under live, operationally representative exercise conditions at T-REX 26-2 (May 2026) — real operators, real hardware, real exercise traffic, operating alongside partner systems BlackByrne did not control. The work did not stop when the range went dark.
TRL 7–8
Demonstrated at T-REX 26-2
100%
Builds gate-verified · zero rollbacks
0
Unresolved regressions at release
7,000+
Intercept-safety trials · zero violations
Demonstrated, not certified. T-REX 26-2 is reported as a live, operationally representative field demonstration under exercise conditions BlackByrne did not control — not a formal government test-and-evaluation certification. We say so plainly because the distinction matters to the people who have to cite it later.
The hardware is commodity
The airframe is replaceable. The decision is not.
A commodity airframe, a field control pack, and DaggerOS booting on a laptop you could buy anywhere. The whole chain fits in one case and stands up in minutes. It is airframe-agnostic by design, demonstrated at T-REX 26-2 and built to run on whatever you field.
The value is the operating system and the human gate above it, not the platform beneath it.
MAVLinkArduPilotPX4ATAK / CoTNATO SAPIENTMOSA
Governance is the feature
Trust claims that trace to named standards. Not marketing language.
DaggerOS is built for people who have to answer for it later. Every element of the doctrine maps to a standard your program office already evaluates against. Alignment is a governance and interoperability posture — not a certification, unless one is furnished in writing under an evaluation agreement.
| Standard | Domain | How DaggerOS is aligned to it |
|---|---|---|
| DoDD 3000.09 | Autonomy | Human-in-command by architecture; a single accountable authorization for every effect; no autonomous engagement path. |
| NIST RMF 800-37 | Risk / ATO | Air-gapped, passive-default posture and reduced external attack surface built to support an accreditation path. |
| NIST 800-53 | Controls | Controls-oriented design across access, audit, and system integrity, consistent with the catalog. |
| FIPS 180-4 / 186-5 | Cryptography | Tamper-evident, cryptographically hash-chained record as the basis of chain of custody. |
| MITRE ATT&CK | Cyber | Cyber-defense reasoning mapped to the framework for a common, auditable vocabulary. |
| NATO SAPIENT | Sensor interop | Open, conforming sensor interfaces consistent with a modular, interoperable architecture. |
| STANAG 4609 / 4607 | Imagery / GMTI | Interoperability with recognized motion-imagery and ground-moving-target exchange conventions. |
| ASTM F3411 | Remote ID | Interoperability with the published drone remote-identification standard. |
| ATP-45 | CBRN | CBRN products aligned to the recognized hazard-reporting convention. |
| MIL-STD-1472 | Human factors | Operator workload and human-factors discipline treated as a design constraint. |
| FAR / DFARS | Acquisition | Commercial-item acquisition; commercial software licensing consistent with DFARS 227.7202. |
Who it's for
Built for the people who have to answer for the call.
DoD program offices
Open interfaces, one human gate, and a record of every call.
SOCOM / SOF
Runs at the edge with no reachback. You stay in command.
DHS & federal law enforcement
Detect, identify, and prove it — no cloud.
Fusion centers & SLTT
One shared picture across agencies, on evidence that holds up.
Prime integrators
A mature, open component that lowers integration risk.
Coalition partners
Coalition-interoperable. National data stays on the box.
How to buy
Aligned to your acquisition pathway.
Evaluated under an agreement, then fielded on the vehicle that fits your program. Commercial software licensed per DFARS 227.7202 — the government owns all mission data and outputs. Firm-fixed-price where you want cost certainty.
FAR Part 12OTASBIR Phase IIIFFP
Restraint by design
- Accountability risk. The record is already built.
- Autonomy risk. No path routes around a person.
- Program risk. Open, owned, and disconnected.
The limits are the value. That is what makes it acquirable.
The company
BlackByrne — an affiliate of BlackTimber Defense.
BlackByrne is the defense-technology company behind DaggerOS: the commercial-facing arm that brings the platform to DoD program offices, special operations, and the agencies that defend the homeland. We build for the fight after the lights go out.
Elijah Black
CTO · Architect of DaggerOS
Technical and engineering lead. Architect of the DaggerOS platform and its safety doctrine — the single human gate, the air-gap-first posture, and the tamper-evident record at the core.
James Byrne
Chief Executive Officer
Leads BlackByrne's mission, partnerships, and path to the field — pairing the platform with the acquisition pathways and program offices it was built to serve.
Straight answers
Questions a program office actually asks.
What is DaggerOS?
DaggerOS is an air-gapped, evidence-first multi-domain decision-support operating system built by BlackByrne. It fuses counter-UAS, electronic warfare, SIGINT, maritime, ground robotics, CBRN, cyber defense, SATCOM and space-domain sensing into one operator picture, and commits every effect through a single human authorization gate.
Is DaggerOS actually air-gapped?
Yes. DaggerOS boots from encrypted media onto commodity hardware and runs fully disconnected at the edge by design, not as a degraded fallback mode. It makes zero external network calls — a claim this website measures live rather than only asserting.
What is the Human Gate?
DaggerOS's single authorization checkpoint, built to DoDD 3000.09. Every effect requires a deliberate, sustained human hold to commit. There is no autonomous engagement path — human-in-command is enforced in the architecture, not a setting that can be toggled off.
Which mission domains does DaggerOS cover?
Ten mission domains on one codebase: Counter-UAS, Electronic Warfare, Signals Intelligence, EO/IR, SATCOM & Space Domain Awareness, CBRN Detection, Maritime, Ground Robotics, Resilient PNT, and Cyber Defense — each re-tasked from the same sense-decide-effect spine and the same human gate. See the full breakdown.
Does BlackEcho make decisions on its own?
No. BlackEcho is an offline, on-box reasoning co-pilot that weighs the whole multi-domain picture, sees the live system, and ranks courses of action. Reachable by voice or plain language, it can command aircraft, swarms, sensors and electronic-warfare effects hands-free and speak a brief back — but it executes only on the operator's word. It runs fully air-gapped on local compute, never steals the operator's attention, and never arms, fires, or emits on its own. The human is the only trigger.
What TRL is DaggerOS at?
TRL 7–8, demonstrated under live, operationally representative conditions at T-REX 26-2 (May 2026) — real operators, real hardware, real exercise traffic.
What hardware does DaggerOS require?
DaggerOS is airframe- and hardware-agnostic, built to run on commodity compute and compatible with MAVLink, ArduPilot and PX4. The value is the operating system and the human gate above it, not any specific platform beneath it.
How is evidence and chain of custody handled?
Every track, detection and decision is written to a tamper-evident, SHA-256-chained record. Alter a block and verification fails from that point forward — a real cryptographic property this site lets you test yourself above, not a staged animation.
What acquisition paths do you support?
FAR Part 12 commercial-item acquisition, Other Transaction Authority, SBIR Phase III sole-source, and firm-fixed-price delivery. Commercial software is licensed per DFARS 227.7202; the government owns all mission data and outputs.
What standards is DaggerOS built against?
DaggerOS is aligned to DoDD 3000.09, NIST RMF 800-37, NIST 800-53, MITRE ATT&CK, DoDI 8530.01, FIPS 180-4/186-5, NATO SAPIENT, STANAG 4609/4607, ASTERIX, ASTM F3411 Remote ID, ATP-45, WCAG 2.2, MIL-STD-1472, and FAR/DFARS. Alignment is a governance and interoperability posture, not a certification.
Who is BlackByrne built for?
DoD program offices, SOCOM and SOF, DHS and federal law enforcement, fusion centers and SLTT agencies, prime integrators, and coalition partners. BlackByrne is an affiliate of BlackTimber Defense; NAICS 541330.
Can I verify these claims independently?
Yes — that is the operating premise of this site. Hold the Human Gate yourself and let go early to watch nothing commit, tamper the evidence ledger and watch the hash chain break, and hash a served asset yourself with the live SHA-256 tool, all in your own browser.
WHEN EVERYTHING GOES DARK — THE RECORD STILL HOLDS
Bring us a problem that spans domains.
One operator should hold it. We build for the fight after the lights go out. Tell us the mission, and we'll show you the picture.