Stearf is a small applied research and development firm focused on advanced technology for national defense and security missions. The company takes challenging technical problems from concept to demonstrated prototype through lean, accountable work and short development cycles. Its capabilities span autonomous systems, including perception, guidance, and control software for unmanned platforms in contested or GPS-denied environments. Stearf also conducts radio-frequency, electro-optical, and multisensor-fusion research, turning raw signals into decision-quality information at the edge. In applied AI and modeling, it uses machine learning, simulation, and digital engineering for mission planning, threat assessment, and system design. Rapid prototyping brings these disciplines together in short-cycle design, build, and field-test efforts.

Stearf works with small teams, senior engineers, and close customer feedback, beginning with the operational mission and defining success criteria upfront. It prioritizes early demonstrations to test difficult assumptions and plans for transition to a program of record, prime integrator, or follow-on phase. The firm is structured for SBIR/STTR-scale efforts and focused subcontract research and development.