A company that would rather be checked than believed.
SafeKey Lab is the security layer for autonomous systems, and keeps an evidence record precise enough to be used against us.
One problem wearing three uniforms.
A small drone, a satellite bus, and a deployed language model are treated as three separate markets with three separate vendor ecosystems. Structurally they are the same system: an actor operating on unverified inputs, faster than a human can supervise, with an attack surface reachable by anyone who can produce a signal.
Building one platform across all three is not a positioning exercise. The core is genuinely shared, so work that lands in one line compounds across the other two.
The second half of the thesis is about proof. Defense buyers have been trained to discount vendor claims. A company that will hand you its measured record — the maturity levels, the environments, the whole file — is betting that being checkable is worth more than sounding impressive.
Who builds it
Sukin Yang
Founder & CEO
Cornell alum and U.S. Army veteran. While serving overseas, he triaged a large population of service members and their families and simultaneously supported operational missions. After the Army, he built data pipelines scaling 30 years of real estate records, built an AI diagnosis tool at Weill Cornell Medicine that scans MRI to detect breast cancer, and worked on RF and satellite engineering at Cornell Bowers. He built the original platform end to end and is the inventor behind SafeKey's detection and red/blue team work, with 8 patent applications filed (patent-pending).
Senior engineers who have built this before.
Systems and aerospace engineers whose prior work spans Boeing, NASA, Vast, Red Hat, SpaceX, and Amazon, alongside U.S. Army veterans who have operated in the environments these products are built for.
Company names indicate the prior professional experience of individual team members. They do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, or any partnership with SafeKey Lab.
Built versus claimed.
Built and measured
Three product lines sharing one platform, a detection scorecard we will hand over in full, a compliance submission package, and an audited AI line with a real test suite.
Exercised in the field
Hawk's integrated system, at TRL 7 — demonstrated in an operational environment and run by end users without contractor supervision. It is the only line with field time.
Where the work goes next
Closing the gap between laboratory validation and flight: a verified downlink for the space line, and physical RF runs that would move the maturity statement rather than the marketing.
Investors included.
If you are evaluating this as an investment, start with the disclosure posture rather than the pitch. It is the same footing we put program offices on, and it is the fastest way to see what is real.