Carmel Brigade builds airborne ISR payloads, UAV-borne signals and imagery analytics, and the fusion software that turns them into targetable intelligence. Founded in Tel Aviv in 2011. Operating in Ukraine, Germany and Canada.
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Every Carmel product writes to the same intelligence schema, so a payload fielded in one theatre feeds analytics deployed in another without re-integration.
Gimballed EO/IR and SIGINT modules for Group 2–4 UAVs, designed for swap-in on existing airframes.
Edge and cloud software that fuses imagery, RF and open sources into a single, time-stamped picture.
Former mission officers plan the collection, train operators and run the first deployments alongside the customer.
Most of Carmel's revenue comes from licensing: sensor designs, algorithms and training data that partners build into their own products. We license by field of use and territory, with engineering support included for the first year.
Typical partners are airframe manufacturers, defence primes, national research institutes and allied government agencies.
The founding team spent two decades in Israeli technological intelligence and air force ISR units before building the company. That is where the product roadmap still comes from.
Carmel was founded in 2011 by a group of former mission officers and intelligence engineers who had spent their careers planning collection, tasking airborne sensors and analysing what came back. They started the company to fix one problem they kept seeing: hardware and software that were designed separately and only met in the field.
Since 2022, engineers embedded with Ukrainian units have fed combat data directly into product development. Every payload revision and every detection model now ships with lessons from live operations, and our Kyiv team is the fastest-growing part of the company.
The leadership team today combines Israeli intelligence veterans, German and Canadian aerospace engineers, and licensing specialists who have closed agreements with primes and governments on three continents.
Research, payload production and the IP portfolio. Home of the fusion platform team.
Field integration and combat data collection with operating units. Rapid hardware iteration.
EU and NATO programmes, certification, and the European export desk.
Analytics engineering for Five Eyes-aligned customers and the North American export desk.
All Carmel products and licences are subject to Israeli defence export control and the export regimes of the hub that delivers them.
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