EW
Systems Architect
Eric White
DARPA · L3Harris · Peraton · TS/SCI
Currently leading an active C5ISR drone threat study evaluating 100+ vendors. Founder of Miku (100K+ radar-based health monitors deployed).
Classified Briefing Available
America Has 50,000 Towers.
We're Waking Them Up.
Scarecrow is the infrastructure layer for U.S. airspace security — AI-powered, sensor-agnostic, and already standing.
Towers
50K+
Sweep
24/7
Coverage
CONUS
The Problem
The skies above us are unguarded — and the adversary already knows.
01 / THREAT
Undefended.
Low-altitude airspace is effectively undefended at national scale.
02 / THREAT
Fragmented.
Existing cUAS systems are isolated, proprietary, and require purpose-built infrastructure.
03 / THREAT
Active.
The threat isn't coming. It's already here.
The Solution
One Network.
Every Tower.
Total Awareness.
Scarecrow deploys across existing broadcast and tower infrastructure — already powered, already elevated, already distributed nationwide. We add the sensors, the AI, and the command layer.
Sensor Layer
RF · Radar · EO/IR
Edge AI
On-tower inference
Command
C5ISR-ready
Distribution
DoD · DHS · FAA
NODE / TWR-0438
● LIVE
Counter-Swarm
A Patriot is $3M. An FPV is $500. The math has changed.
The defense stack built for individual drones will fail against coordinated swarms. Counter-swarm is a real-time distributed-systems problem — closer to Cloudflare than to Raytheon. That is the layer Scarecrow owns.
Patriot Interceptor
$3,000,000
Per shot
FPV Drone
$500
Per attacker
Cost Asymmetry
6,000×
Advantage to attacker
01 / Pillar
Distributed sensor mesh
50,000+ tower nodes, not a handful of $30M radars. Every additional node strengthens the picture. Coverage scales horizontally — like a CDN, not a missile battery.
02 / Pillar
Edge AI per node
Detection, classification, and track formation run on tower-mounted compute. No round-trip to a remote ops center. Sub-second decisions at swarm scale.
03 / Pillar
Sensor- and effector-agnostic fusion
RF, radar, EO/IR fused into one real-time picture. Each track is matched to the cheapest effective effector — kinetic, RF/GNSS denial, directed energy, or cyber attack on the autonomy stack itself.
04 / Pillar
Software-defined, horizontally scalable
New sensors, new effectors, and new threat models ship as software updates across the mesh. The network gets smarter every week — not every procurement cycle.
● Thesis
Swarms are defeated by the cheapest effective effector — not the most expensive one. The bottleneck is detection, fusion, and tasking at scale. Scarecrow is that layer for the United States.
01 / DEFENSE
Protect the Airspace
Threat detection and counter-UAS at national scale. Integrated with DoD, DHS, and FAA command and intelligence systems.
cUASC5ISRTS/SCIPersistent ISR
02 / COMMERCIAL
Enable the Airspace
FAA-compliant low-altitude access for commercial drone operators. Per-flight usage model on the same network that defends it.
BVLOSPer-FlightAPI-FirstFAA-Compliant
The same infrastructure that protects the airspace enables it.
The Network
A continent-wide sensor mesh,
activating in real time.
0+
Tower locations nationwide
Broadcast · Cellular · Public Safety
6–12mo
To proof of concept deployment
Existing power · Existing elevation
3-Layer
Detection & response architecture
Sensor → Edge AI → Command
● LIVE NETWORK ACTIVATION
CONUS COVERAGE / 0%
WESTCENTRALEAST
The Team
Operators from defense, autonomy,
and infrastructure at scale.
JB
Non-Executive Advisor
Joshua Broussard
Wetstone · Ocean Infinity
Deep expertise in autonomous systems across air, sea, and subsea environments.
AG
Defense Commercialization & GTM
Arthur Goikhman
Dynepic CTO · SBIR / TACFI / STRATFI
$30M+ in Air Force revenue. Serial founder with multiple exits across defense and commercial markets.
DG
Advisor — Distribution & Scale
Dan Goikhman
Dappier · Mojiva (→ PubMatic) · POWR.tv (→ Bitcentral)
Deep relationships across broadcasters, tower owners, and media infrastructure networks.
FAQ
What investors and agencies ask first.
- What is Scarecrow?
- Scarecrow is a U.S. airspace security infrastructure company. We turn the existing network of 50,000+ communications towers into a sensor-agnostic, AI-powered detection grid for drones, drone swarms, low-altitude aircraft, and emerging aerial threats across the continental United States.
- How does Scarecrow defend against drone swarms?
- Drone swarm defense is a distributed-systems problem, not a single-weapon problem. A $3M interceptor cannot answer a $500 FPV drone, and it definitely cannot answer 100 of them flying coordinated paths. Scarecrow fuses every sensor on every tower — RF, radar, EO/IR — into one real-time picture of the airspace, tracks every object in a swarm individually, and routes that track data to the right kinetic, non-kinetic, and autonomy-stack effectors. The detection and fusion layer is the bottleneck for counter-swarm; that is the layer we own.
- Why does counter-swarm need a Cloudflare-style architecture instead of a Raytheon-style one?
- Legacy air defense was built around a small number of expensive interceptors guided by a small number of expensive radars. Swarms invert that economic model. Winning requires a distributed, always-on sensor mesh with edge compute at every node, software-defined fusion, and the ability to scale horizontally as threats scale. That is closer to a global edge network like Cloudflare than to a traditional prime contractor stack — and it is exactly how Scarecrow is built.
- Who are Scarecrow's customers?
- Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, the FAA, state and local public safety agencies, and commercial operators in critical infrastructure, energy, stadiums, and logistics.
- How is Scarecrow different from other counter-UAS companies?
- Most counter-UAS vendors sell a single sensor or a point system optimized for one drone at a time. Scarecrow is the underlying infrastructure layer — sensor-agnostic, tower-deployed, and designed for nationwide, multi-track, swarm-scale coverage rather than perimeter defense.
- Does Scarecrow handle non-kinetic and autonomy-stack defenses?
- Yes. Because Scarecrow is sensor- and effector-agnostic, the network can cue RF/GNSS denial, directed-energy systems, cyber effects against the autonomy stack, and kinetic interceptors — and pick the right one per track. Swarms are defeated by the cheapest effective effector, not the most expensive one.
- Is Scarecrow a dual-use company?
- Yes. The same network powers defense and homeland security missions while serving commercial airspace customers including UTM (unmanned traffic management), critical infrastructure protection, and event security.
- Is Scarecrow raising capital?
- Scarecrow is in active conversations with strategic capital partners aligned with national security and defense-tech, including funds backing YC's counter-swarm thesis. Investors can request a confidential briefing through the contact form.
- Where is Scarecrow based?
- Scarecrow operates across the United States with a focus on CONUS (continental U.S.) coverage. Briefings are available in person and via secure channels.
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The Airspace Won't Secure Itself.
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