Federal
Mission need, national priorities, operational context, and transition pathways.
Tennessee · United States
Advanced technology for those who carry the mission.
TACTIC brings advanced materials and computing together to solve hard national-security and industrial problems, strengthen U.S. technological advantage, and accelerate useful capability to the warfighter.
The constraint
Materials set the performance envelope.
Every major technology ultimately meets a physical limit. Heat. Strength. Weight. Magnetic response. Electronic behavior. Manufacturability. When the material cannot do more, the system cannot do more.
TACTIC focuses on that boundary: discovering, designing, and realizing materials that enable capabilities conventional approaches cannot reach.
Integrated by design
The strongest capability sits at the confluence.
Breakthrough science is not enough by itself. Fielded capability requires mission pull, technical depth, and disciplined execution in the same loop.
Industry
Engineering discipline, manufacturability, delivery, scale, and product execution.
Academia
Deep science, first-of-kind experimentation, advanced facilities, and talent.
One integrated structure.
TACTIC is built to connect these capacities directly, reducing the handoffs that slow translation from insight to capability.
The engine
Advanced computing × advanced materials.
We combine physics, materials synthesis, characterization, simulation, data, AI, and autonomous experimentation to attack broad technical problems as connected systems rather than isolated disciplines.
DiscoverSearch larger materials and design spaces.
UnderstandConnect structure, process, and performance.
RealizeTurn candidate materials into physical systems.
TransitionMove useful capability toward deployment and scale.
The objective
Advance U.S. technological advantage, strengthen domestic capability, and give the warfighter better tools sooner.
Founders
Built across science, defense, and execution.
Daniel “Animal” Javorsek, Ph.D.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Dustin A. Gilbert, Ph.D.
Founder & Chief Science and Technology Officer
Eleanore Javorsek
Founder & Chief Operations Officer
TACTIC
Based in Tennessee.
Built to advance U.S. capability.
For partnership, research, and program inquiries:
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