Arctan, Inc.

Arlington, VA · Defense · Private

Algorithmic control systems for coordinated defensive swarms of unmanned vehicles

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Updated Oct 23, 2026 · arctan-group.com

Sector: Defense
Headquarters: Arlington, VA
Total capital: $5.1M

Federal grants: $152K; 2 awards · 2020; Rank in peer group#21 of 24
Private capital raised: None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
Federal contracts: $4.9M; 11 awards · Defense, Interior; Rank in Defense#528 of 1442
Granted patents: 1; 2 pending · first 2022; Rank in peer group#5 of 24

Capital timeline

Latest events

Nov 2020Federal contractDefense · Contract Award Of SBIR Phase 1.$111K
Jun 2020Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Swarm Breaker$111K
Mar 2020Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Siegebreaker-j$41K
Feb 2019Federal contractInterior · Igf::ot::igf Counter Siege Provides A Framework And Solution Components For Scalable Manned-unmanned Teaming. It Solves Critical Issues Related To (i) Human Cognitive Burden, (II) Planning, And (III) Disadvantaged Communications Environments.$50K
Jul 2018Federal contractDefense · This Contract Is For A Ffp Contract As A Result Of A Response To SBIR Topic A181-044, Deep Metadata.$100K
Sep 2017Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Contract Award For SBIR Phase 1$100K
Jan 2017Federal contractInterior · Igf::ot::igf Dtim: Distributed Tactical Information Management$1.6M

Show 6 earlier federal awards

Sep 2015Federal contractDefense · Igf::ct::igf Arctan Occam Phase II SBIR$893K
May 2014Federal contractDefense · SBIRSOL2014.1$80K
May 2013Federal contractDefense · DOD 2012-3 SBIR Solicitation$149K
Feb 2013Federal contractDefense · R&d Services Iaw With Sow$985K
Oct 2012Federal contractDefense · Elastic Computational Numerics (econ) For The Xdata Program$100K
Sep 2011Federal contractDefense · Insight Playbreaker Seeks To Make Direct Use Of An Often Overlooked Body Of Academic And Military Theory Concerning The Underlying Structures Of Insurgency And Directly Encode These Theories In Causal Network Representations That Can Effectively Assist The Collection Management, Exploitation And Human/machine Interface Modules Of Insight.$798K

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Standing among 24 peers

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Defense · Software

Federal grantsBelow median
Granted patents#5 · top 21%

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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026

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What it has protected

USPTO · 1 granted of 3

Apr 21, 2022PendingMethods And Systems For Modulating And De-modulating DataUSPTOApplication 17565892
Feb 1, 2022GrantedMethods And Systems For Modulating And De-modulating DataUSPTOUS 11,240,082
PendingMethods And Systems For Modulating And De-modulating DataUSPTOApplication 62831939

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Regulatory activity · Defense

Sector-level, not company-level

11 Jun 2026Danger Zone; Waters of Carr Creek and Whitehall Bay in the Vicinity of the Naval Support Activity AnnapolisEngineers Corps
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation: Trade Agreements ThresholdsNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
13 Mar 2026Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2026-01; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
27 Aug 2025Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; Small Entity Compliance GuideNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
27 Aug 2025Federal Acquisition Regulation; Federal Acquisition Circular 2025-06; IntroductionNational Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Sources

Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.

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Data freshness

SEC Form D filings through Oct 23, 2026. SBIR and STTR awards through Oct 21, 2026.