Harvey, Louisiana · U.S. owned and operated · Engineering the frontier
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Verified drone tracks, from any sensor to any authorized defender.

York Industries builds autonomous-systems software for defense and critical infrastructure: multi-target tracking, decentralized multi-agent coordination, and authenticated data exchange. Counter-UAS airspace awareness with an authenticated handoff to certified law-enforcement responders, from the Gulf Coast port and petrochemical corridor.

Our mission

Under the federal counter-UAS rule, the sites around critical infrastructure may detect drones but may not act, and the agencies newly authorized to act cannot see beyond their own fence. York is building the software that lets whoever detects a drone hand a verified track to whoever is allowed to act on it — in seconds, signed, and verified before anyone acts.

Focus areas

Two sides of one handoff.

Today that handoff is a phone call: minutes late, no coordinates, no way to verify. York's software closes the gap, and the decentralized autonomy work under Army evaluation runs alongside it.

Defense Systems
Counter-UAS airspace awareness with authenticated handoff
6 CFR and 28 CFR Part 124 · SAFER SKIES framework · In development, pilot engagements sought

Software that fuses a site's existing cameras, radar, and Remote ID receivers into one shared, authenticated air picture, holds the track, and hands it to a certified responder who verifies the signature before acting. No new sensors, no central server, no mitigation function: agency personnel act under their own authority and certification.

  1. 1 · DetectThe site's own passive sensors are fused into one air picture.
  2. 2 · HoldEach aircraft is tracked continuously, so the responder gets a live track, not a snapshot.
  3. 3 · Hand off, signedEvery track and status claim carries a standardized post-quantum signature tied to an enrolled sensor.
  4. 4 · RespondThe certified responder verifies the signature and acts. Anything unsigned or altered is dropped.
Minutes → seconds
Design goal: a verified position and heading in the responder's hands in seconds instead of a phone description in minutes. Stated as a target; nothing is demonstrated yet.
Army SBIR Phase I proposal in evaluation — ARM26BX04-NV008
Parallel work
Contract R&D · Engineering services
Autonomous-systems software
Perception · Coordination · Simulation · Embedded deployment

Perception and multi-target tracking, decentralized multi-agent coordination and task allocation, engagement and mission simulation, and embedded deployment on low-weight compute (NVIDIA Jetson-class). Built for the case where communications are jammed and a node is lost, because that is the case that decides real engagements. The current effort is entirely software and is deliberately structured to remain outside the arms, ammunition, and explosives regulatory regime.

$1K–$50K → $100K–$4M
The cost-exchange gap driving the need for affordable air defense. Publicly reported ranges.
Advisory · Security · Quantum
Operational-technology security assessment
Post-quantum cryptographic readiness

Assessment of industrial and launch-site control systems, sensors, and automation networks, with emphasis on post-quantum cryptographic readiness. The control systems running Gulf Coast energy still rely on encryption a future quantum computer could break; the assessment inventories that cryptography and maps a transition to post-quantum standards. Advisory and assessment only.

PQC-native by design

York designs to post-quantum standards from the start rather than retrofitting later.

2030
NIST target to deprecate today's public-key encryption, disallowed after 2035 (NIST IR 8547, initial public draft)
Why York

Verifiable by design. Built to endure.

Trust is not a promise we ask you to take — it is a property we design for. Every result we report comes from a run we can reproduce: logged configuration, logged code version, logged random seed. Every message between platforms and between a site and an agency is authenticated, because the cheapest way to defeat a defense is not shooting it — it is lying to it. We state targets as targets and limitations as limitations.

1
Federal proposal submitted, August 2026 — first-time federal proposer
100%
Work performed in Louisiana by U.S. persons
100%
U.S.-citizen owned, no foreign ownership, control, or influence
Logged
Every reported result, from a logged seed

Design for denied conditions

Coordination architectures that keep working when communications are jammed or a node is lost: no central controller, no single point of failure.

Authenticated by default

Inter-platform and site-to-agency data exchange is treated as an adversarial channel and authenticated with post-quantum-resistant methods. A responder cannot be spoofed into acting on a phantom track.

Reproducible results

Every reported result is generated from a logged configuration, code version, and random seed, and delivered with reproduction instructions.

An operator's discipline

The founder spent roughly six years inside large-scale automated industrial operations and today maintains live automated conveyance, sortation, and control systems, including a fielded fleet of autonomous robotic drive units.

Gulf Coast proximity

Inside the Louisiana petrochemical, port, and launch corridor — customer-adjacent to one of the nation's densest concentrations of regulated critical infrastructure and the parish and port agencies that respond to it.

Who we serve

Sites buy awareness and a trustworthy way to pass it on. Responders buy a verified track they can act on.

Sites that detect

  • Ports, airports, and MTSA-regulated maritime facilities
  • Refineries, LNG terminals, and petrochemical plants
  • Electric utilities and substations
  • Spaceports and launch-site operators

Responders that act

  • Harbor police and port authorities
  • Sheriffs' offices and municipal police
  • State police
  • Installation and base-defense cells

Research sponsors

  • Department of the Army research programs
  • Department of the Air Force research programs
Current activity

A U.S. Army SBIR Phase I proposal was submitted in August 2026 under topic ARM26BX04-NV008, Asymmetric Collaborative Counter Swarm, and is in evaluation.

Structured customer discovery is under way with Gulf Coast port facility security officers and harbor police. York is engaged with Louisiana Economic Development's Technology Transfer Office and the MavenWERX accelerator, and is registered on Source Louisiana.

York is a first-time federal proposer with no prior federal contract performance, and states its record without inflation.

Company data
Legal name
York Industries LLC
Structure
Single-member LLC, Louisiana (Charter 47108224K, formed July 2026)
Address
4000 North Woodbine Street, Harvey, LA 70058-2241
UEI
WHCET7XVUA66
CAGE
234N3
SAM.gov
Active, All Awards
Size
Small business (self-certified)
NAICS
541715 (primary) · 541511
Registrations
SBA Company Registry · DSIP · Louisiana LaGov vendor · Source Louisiana
Cybersecurity
CMMC Level 1 practices in place (self-assessed)
Ownership
100% U.S. citizen; no foreign ownership, control, or influence
The long horizon

A decade-horizon standard

We build for the long horizon: systems whose evidence still holds, whose security still stands, and whose value still compounds a decade from now.

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Partner with us

Let's build what comes next.

Port and site security directors, sheriffs and harbor police, agencies, platform providers, and technical advisors — if you work on this problem, we should talk. Inquiries go directly to the founder.

phillip@yorkindustries.us (504) 284-4939

Phillip E. York, Founder · Harvey, Louisiana (New Orleans metro)