Santa Clarita, California Aerospace Engineering · GNC · Autonomy

Man-portable defense, reimagined.

VortexDyn AI develops next-generation guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous defense applications. We combine 29+ years of aerospace engineering heritage with modern AI to deliver counter-UAS and unmanned-system solutions for the modern battlefield.

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29+ yrs
Aerospace heritage
Mach 6
Hypersonic GNC pedigree
4 programs
eVTOL · suborbital · hypersonic · helo
Engineering
Pedigree
Stratolaunch Virgin Galactic Archer Aviation Overair L-3 Link
01 — Capabilities

Engineering depth, applied to autonomous defense.

Our work draws on decades of disciplined aerospace engineering practice — flight dynamics, guidance algorithms, control law design, and hardware-in-the-loop validation — translated to the requirements of modern autonomous systems.

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Guidance, Navigation & Control

End-to-end GNC system design — proportional navigation, adaptive control law, sensor fusion, state estimation — for guided munitions, autonomous interceptors, and unmanned platforms.

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Edge AI & Perception

Object detection and target tracking deployed on edge AI hardware. Real-time inference pipelines optimized for size, weight, power, and cost constraints typical of small autonomous platforms.

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Flight Dynamics & Simulation

High-fidelity 6-DoF aerodynamic models, propulsion modeling, hardware-in-the-loop test architectures, and pilot-in-the-loop simulation for both manned and unmanned platforms.

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Systems Integration

Avionics architecture, embedded firmware, mechanical-electrical integration, and rapid prototyping — concept to working hardware in disciplined engineering iteration.

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Counter-UAS Effectors

Kinetic interceptor design for the dismounted operator: low SWaP-C, autonomous engagement, and resilience against modern threat profiles including electronic-warfare-resistant adversaries.

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Mission Architecture

CONOPs definition, requirements derivation, system-of-systems integration, and transition planning across the technology readiness lifecycle.

02 — Solutions

Built for the modern battlefield.

Hardware-grounded technology developed for the realities of contested airspace, where every fielded soldier needs organic counter-drone capability.

Counter-UAS

Anti-Drone Defense Solutions

Detection-to-defeat counter-UAS architectures for fixed-site, vehicle-mount, and dismounted operations.

Munitions

Intelligent Effectors

Autonomous guided-effector design with on-board sensing, terminal guidance, and proximity-trigger logic — drawing on traditional missile-guidance heritage applied to small-platform constraints.

UAS Platforms

UAS Integration & Avionics

End-to-end UAV avionics development from sensor fusion through flight control to mission management — for fixed-wing, rotary, and tilt-rotor platforms.

Flight Control

Advanced Flight Control

Production-grade digital flight control law design, autopilot architectures, and stability augmentation systems for novel and unconventional airframes.

03 — About the founder

Engineering experience that spans the envelope.

VortexDyn AI was founded by Oliver Ouyang, an aerospace engineer with 29+ years of experience in flight dynamics, simulation, and guidance, navigation, and control. His career spans hypersonic vehicles, suborbital human spaceflight, eVTOL platforms, and military rotorcraft simulation.

That breadth — from a Mach 6 autonomous hypersonic vehicle to the SpaceShip2 "Unity" suborbital flight that carried Sir Richard Branson to space — informs the engineering rigor we bring to next-generation autonomous defense systems.

The company combines that institutional aerospace pedigree with modern edge AI, applied to the new realities of contested airspace and dismounted-soldier counter-drone operations.

04 — Contact

Ready to discuss a program.

Whether you have an active counter-UAS requirement, a GNC consulting need, or an early-stage system concept that could benefit from disciplined engineering — let's talk.

Email vortex1999@live.com
Location Santa Clarita, California
Designations Small Business · Small Disadvantaged Business