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Headquarters
PITTSBURGH, PA
Latest Form D
$1M, May 2022
Total capital
$70.4M
Federal grants
$26.6M
27 awards · 2015–2025
Private capital raised
$9M
2 Form D · last May 2022
54 months since last filing
Federal contracts
$34.8M
33 awards · Defense, NASA, Interior
Granted patents
7
10 pending · first 2018

Capital timeline

2013201520172019202120232025FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $70.4M2013: $2.2M across 2 contracts2014: $204K across 2 contracts2015: $994K across 1 grant · $1.7M across 3 contracts2016: $829K across 2 grants · $929K across 3 contracts2017: $3.8M across 4 grants · $1.1M across 2 contracts$4.9M2018: $1.1M across 2 grants · $250K across 2 contracts2019: $1.8M across 2 grants · $1.2M across 3 contracts$3M2020: $3.3M across 4 grants · $5.7M across 4 contracts$8.9M2021: $849K across 3 grants2022: $1.8M across 2 grants · $2M across 1 contract$3.8M2023: $260K across 2 grants · $4.6M across 3 contracts$4.9M2024: $140K across 1 grant · $642K across 3 contracts2025: $11.7M across 4 grants · $14.2M across 5 contracts$25.9M1st Form D$8M2nd Form D$1M
2013201720212025FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $70.4M2013: $2.2M across 2 contracts2014: $204K across 2 contracts2015: $994K across 1 grant · $1.7M across 3 contracts2016: $829K across 2 grants · $929K across 3 contracts2017: $3.8M across 4 grants · $1.1M across 2 contracts$4.9M2018: $1.1M across 2 grants · $250K across 2 contracts2019: $1.8M across 2 grants · $1.2M across 3 contracts2020: $3.3M across 4 grants · $5.7M across 4 contracts$8.9M2021: $849K across 3 grants2022: $1.8M across 2 grants · $2M across 1 contract2023: $260K across 2 grants · $4.6M across 3 contracts$4.9M2024: $140K across 1 grant · $642K across 3 contracts2025: $11.7M across 4 grants · $14.2M across 5 contracts$25.9M1st Form D$8M2nd Form D$1M

Latest events

  • Federal contractDefense · Statement Of Work - Enhancement Task Order: W51701-25-F-A003 Issued To Near Earth Autonomy, Inc. Under Idiq W51701-25-D-A002.$8.5M
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Statement Of Work - Enhancement Task Order: W51701-25-F-A003 Issued To Near Earth Autonomy, Inc. Under Idiq W51701-25-D-A002.$8.5M
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Research And Development$600K
  • Federal contractDefense · Research And Development$600K
  • Federal contractDefense · This Is A Research, Development, Test And Evaluation Phase II Catalyst Contract Awarded To: Near Earth Autonomy For Proposal A2-10443, Rotorcraft Uncrewed Conversion Kit For Contested Logistics And Sustainment (ruck) Dated 23 October 2024.$1.0M
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · This Is A Research, Development, Test And Evaluation Phase II Catalyst Contract Awarded To: Near Earth Autonomy For Proposal A2-10443, Rotorcraft Uncrewed Conversion Kit For Contested Logistics And Sustainment (ruck) Dated 23 October 2024.$1.0M
  • Federal contractDefense · Near Earth Autonomy SBIR Direct To Phase II Beacon For Assured Landing Location Develop, Demonstrate, And Deliver Solutions That Increase The Precision Of Automated Drone Landings.$1.6M
  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$1M
  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$8M
Show 53 earlier federal awards
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Near Earth Autonomy SBIR Direct To Phase II Beacon For Assured Landing Location Develop, Demonstrate, And Deliver Solutions That Increase The Precision Of Automated Drone Landings.$1.6M
  • Federal contractDefense · Near Earth Autonomy (nea) Inc. Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR Ph III) Will Further Develop Their Autonomy Core Called Captain To An Initial Prototype Level Including An Integrated Human Machine Interface That Enables Push Button Delivery.$2.5M
  • Federal contractDefense · Emerging Tech Autonomous Aircraft Inspection Demonstration (SBIR Phase III).$355K
  • Federal contractDefense · Emerging Tech Autonomous Aircraft Inspection Demonstration (SBIR Phase III) In Accordance With The Pws. SBIR Phase III - Work That Derives/extends From Previous SBIR Phase II (topic AF211-DCS01, Proposal Number F2D-3027).$48K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · SBIR Phase I$140K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I$240K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Subsurface Aircraft Corrosion Detection Using Autonomous Inspection Drones$110K
  • Federal contractDefense · Subsurface Aircraft Corrosion Detection Using Autonomous Inspection Drones$110K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR Ph 2 Hvtol UAS$3M
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase I · Continuous Autonomy Runtime Monitoring to Assure Consistent Operational Safety$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · The Purpose Of This Effort Is To Develop, Mature, And Test A Modular Bolt-on Autonomous Operations Kit For Group 3 Uavs.$1.5M
  • Federal contractNASA · Commercialization Of Autonomous Drone-based Aircraft Inspection$2M
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Emergency “just-in-time” Delivery and Recovery of Whole Blood via Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)$1.1M
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Sense and Avoid Autonomy Capabilities Enabling Orbs$750K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Rapid Autonomous Inspection of Aircraft: Infrastructure-free, Accurate and Safe$750K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Modular Enterprise System for Visualization, Annotation, and Analytics of Aircraft Inspection Data$50K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Robust Navigation in GPS-Denied Environments$50K
  • Federal contractDefense · Sense And Avoid Autonomy Capabilities Enabling Orbs$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · Army 2018.2 SBIR Phase III Medical R&d Contract Proposal Titled "emergency Just-in-time Delivery And Recovery Of Whole Blood Via Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) - Parachute Delivery And Operational Demonstration" Log 20000057$1.4M
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Long Term Autonomy for Aerial Urban Mobility$755K
  • Federal contractDefense · Research And Development Medical Contract Army SBIR Phase II Proposal No A2-7942 Titled Emergency Just-in-time Delivery And Recovery Of Whole Blood Via Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS).$1.1M
  • Federal contractDefense · Direct To SBIR Phase II - Autonomous Resupply For Field Artillery$3M
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Robust Relative Navigation and Control for Autonomous Ship-Based Landing of Resupply Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft$1.7M
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Rapid, High-Fidelity Aircraft Inspection Using Autonomous Aerial Systems$50K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Autonomous Resupply for Field Artillery$759K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Emergency “just-in-time” Delivery and Recovery of Whole Blood via Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)$1.1M
  • Federal contractNASA · In This Program We Will Show That It Is Possible For Autonomous Air Vehicles To Reliably And Safely Fly In Long-term Operations.$125K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Enabling Aerial Close-Proximity and Contact Sensing for Inspection of Industrial Infrastructure$739K
  • Federal contractNASA · Enabling Aerial Close-proximity And Contact Sensing For Inspection Of Industrial Infrastructure$938K
  • Federal contractDefense · Army SBIR Phase I Medical R&d Proposal: A182-123-0143, For, " Emergency Just-in-time Delivery And Recovery Of Whole Blood Via Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS".$146K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Emergency “just-in-time” Delivery and Recovery of Whole Blood via Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)$146K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Innovative Collaboration for Unmanned Aerial and Dissimilar Systems$1.0M
  • Federal contractNASA · There Is A Large Unserved And Well-defined Need In Several Heavy Industrial Markets Such As Steel, Petroleum, Energy, And Mining For Aerial Inspection, Particularly By Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (suas) Conducting Close Proximity Imaging And Contact Sensing. We Propose To Increase The Utility Of Aerial Inspection Beyond The Current State Of The Art Where Imagery Typically Is Manually Collected From Structures At A Distance Of Many Meters With Technology To Enable High Quality Image Coverage $125K
  • Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I, Igf::ot::igf$125K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Risk-Based Unmanned Air System (UAS) Mission Path Planning Capability$125K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · A System and Testing Methodology for Autonomous Ship-Based Resupply VTOL Aircraft$1.1M
  • Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf$225K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Operating In The National Airspace System (nas) Have The Potential To Significantly Impact Modern Society. It Is Now Common To Consider UAS For Difficult And Dangerous Tasks Such As Fire Fighting And Dull Tasks Such As Surveying Crops. In Addition, The Autonomous Elements From Such UAS Are Being Considered As A Means To Provide Safe Personal Aviation. Open Questions Remain, However, About How Unmanned Autonomous Aircraft Can Be Safely Incorporated In$915K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Autonomous Contingency Detection and Reaction for Unmanned Aircraft$701K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Rapid 3D Reconstruction with Commercial Drones$1.8M
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf The Proposed Phase III Study Will Consider An Aircraft Capable Of Carrying 1-2 Persons, Having A Gross Takeoff Weight On The Order Of 800 To 1,200 Lb, And Enabling Carriage Of A Sensor Suite Weighing Up To 30 Lb. Mission Ranges Would Typically Be Less Than 100 Miles, One-way. The On- Or Off-board Operator Is Expected To Be Able To Assist The Aircraft In Assessing Potential In-flight And Ground Hazards When Available, But The Primary Responsibility For Initially Identifying Potenti$50K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Computational Methods for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction$80K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) And, In Particular, Intelligent, Autonomous Aircraft Operating In The National Airspace System (nas) Have The Potential To Significantly Impact Modern Society. They Could Perform Difficult And Dangerous Tasks Such As Fire Fighting, Border Patrol, And Search And Rescue, And Dull Tasks Such As Surveying Crops. The Elimination Of A Cockpit And Pilot Makes UAS Operation Attractive From An Economic Standpoint. In Addition, Much Of The Technology Used For $125K
  • Federal grantNASA · Phase II · Autonomous, Safe Take-Off and Landing Operations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the National Airspace$749K
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Have The Potential To Significantly Impact Modern Society. While The Technology For Unmanned Air Vehicles Operating Day In And Day Out Without Constant Human Supervision Is Maturing Steadily, Much Remains To Be Done To Make These Vehicles Commonplace. We Have Identified A Number Of Challenges That Must Be Addressed For These Vehicles To Safely And Efficiently Conduct Their Tasks In The National Airspace System (nas). Civilian Applications Of UAS Must E$754K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR Phase I Topic N152-084, Igf::ot::igf$80K
  • Federal contractInterior · Igf::ot::igf Other Functions - Darpa SBIR 15.1 - Miniature Optical Guidance&navigation$1.5M
  • Federal contractNASA · Igf::ot::igf Unmanned Aerial Systems (uas's) And In Particular Intelligent, Autonomous Rotorcraft And Fixed-wing Aircraft Have The Potential To Significantly Impact Modern Society. A Few Examples Of Their Utility Include Aerial Surveying In Difficult-to-access Terrain, Precision Agriculture, Package Delivery, Moviemaking, Infrastructure Inspection, Fire Fighting, Search And Rescue, Etc. Recently There Has Been A Lot Of Interest In Autonomous Air Vehicles For Cargo Delivery To Improve Cost And Ti$125K
  • Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Cooperative Autonomous Tunnel Mapping$994K
  • Federal contractNASA · "igf::ot::igf" Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) And, In Particular, Intelligent, Autonomous Aircraft Operating In The National Airspace (nas) Have The Potential To Significantly Impact Modern Society. They Could Perform Difficult And Dangerous Tasks Such As Fire Fighting, Border Patrol, And Search And Rescue, And Dull Tasks Such As Surveying Crops. The Elimination Of A Cockpit And The Pilots Makes UAS Operation Attractive From An Economic Standpoint. In Addition, Much Of The Technology Used For Aut$125K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIRSOL2014.1$80K
  • Federal contractDefense · Sensor Evalation And Moedling For Robust Ship-relative Navigation In Degraded Conditions$2M
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR I - Cooperative Autonomous Tunnel Mapping$150K

Federal awards are summed by year (60 awards); hover a bar for the split. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.

Federal first

56months

from Near Earth Autonomy, Inc.’s first federal award to its first private round.

First federal award · Feb 2013
Defense · $150K
First Form D · Oct 2017
$8M · 1st Form D
Awards before first raise
19 awards

An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.

Founders and team

Researcher links verified by same-company patents and grants
  • Lyle ChamberlainResearcherExecutive Officer, Director, PromoterLinked by 2 patents · $50K in grants as PI
  • Sanjiv SinghResearcherExecutive Officer, Director, PromoterLinked by $11.2M in grants as PI
  • Charles ToupsDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
  • Marcel BergermanExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
  • Sebastian SchererExecutive Officer, PromoterNamed in SEC Form D filings

What it has protected

USPTO · 7 granted of 17
Show all 17 patent records

Recent research by its founders

  • Traversing with quantitative fidelity through the glass transition of amorphous polymers: Modeling the thermodynamic dilatational flow of polycarbonate20233 cites
  • A Near-Term Path to Assured Aerial Autonomy20232 cites
  • Avoiding Collisions Between Aircraft: State of the Art and Requirements for UAVs operating in Civilian Airspace201840 cites

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.

How to read this page

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Data freshness

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