We engineer decision superiority.

A defense-technology small business, building the software operating layer for contested-domain defense from Charleston, South Carolina.

UEI UKELB3UV76V6 · CAGE 19S89

Mission Leadership Vision Contracting Contact

Why we exist

Good firms should win on merit.

Contested-domain defense is too high-stakes to run on guesswork and disconnected tools. The environment fights back — in orbit, across the spectrum, at sea, and along the contracting line that funds it all.

So we built one instrument that finds the opportunity, scores it honestly, charts the partner, and protects the work. Three platforms, one operating philosophy: we don’t build features — we engineer the decision.

Ninety percent accuracy is a one-hundred percent failure rate. We hold ourselves to the standard the mission demands.

Leadership

Operators, engineers, builders.

National-security space, platform architecture, brand, operations, and aerospace strategy — each has been doing this kind of work for years.

Stan Kennedy

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Aerospace systems · Digital engineering · Government & industry engagement

40+ years of hands-on aerospace engineering — heavy-lift launch vehicles, upper stages, spacecraft, and ground systems for government and commercial customers. Co-founder of Oakman Aerospace (acquired by Redwire); prior roles at Comtech AeroAstro, General Dynamics AIS, and Lockheed Martin Space Systems. AIAA Associate Fellow; past Chairman, Space Force Cadet Corps; ITAC-1 aerospace trade advisor. B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona; M.S. Engineering Management, CU Boulder.

James LeMieux

Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Architecture · Physics orchestration · STARCHITECT

Founder and architect of the STARCHITECT platform — event-driven fabric, federated K3s nodes, NATS backbone, and physics orchestration. Led STARCHITECT from concept to operational.

Jordan Broe

Co-Founder & Chief Mission Product Officer

Brand · Creative · Proposals

Brand, creative, proposals, and market-facing strategy across the HYPATIUS portfolio — STARCHITECT, ALIDADE, and CRATON. Space Symposium and pitch production lead.

Shawna LeMieux

Chief of Staff

Operations · People · Execution

Runs operations, people, and execution across the HYPATIUS portfolio. CRATON product owner with DCAA-aligned cost-accounting and program-controls expertise.

Maureen O’Brien

Executive Advisor

Aerospace strategy · Export control · M&S

Former CEO of Oakman Aerospace. 20+ years in aerospace strategy, program management, ITAR/export control, and modeling & simulation. U.S. Navy veteran.

The vision

The next decade of conflict is a software problem.

Deterrence now runs on who can sense, decide, and act faster across every domain at once. HYPATIUS is building the operating system for that fight: one connected reasoning layer, owned by the people defending the mission.

Contracting with HYPATIUS

STATUS Small business · Non-traditional defense contractor
UEI UKELB3UV76V6 · CAGE 19S89
HQ Charleston, SC · CONTACT leadership@hypati.us

As a small business and non-traditional defense contractor, HYPATIUS LLC is positioned for small-business set-aside awards and aligns to OTA, CSO, and SBIR Phase III pathways.

Small-business set-asideNon-traditional defense contractorSBIR Phase IIIOTACSO NAICS 541512NAICS 541330NAICS 541715SAM.gov registered

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