Radar · Aerospace, Maritime and Defense in New Jersey
Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense Companies in New Jersey, United States
The 58 best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Oceanrockets.
By Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
58companies tracked
$8.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
2have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · AEROSPACE, MARITIME AND DEFENSE × NEW JERSEY
Our analysis of 50 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies
$6.7b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
50companies analysed
89%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
3unicorns
2017median founding year
Ranked: Best Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oceanrockets Provider of boat designing and building services | $5M | 51 mo ago | Series A | John C Yank Owner | 1969 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Jaunt Air Mobility Manufacturer of electric vertical take-off and landing aircrafts | $2M | 61 mo ago | Seed | — | 2019 | WordPressMySQLPHP+19 | — | — |
| 3 | Cetacean Marine Offers operations and maintenance of vessels | $850K | 150 mo ago | Early Stage | Harry Rogers CEO & President | 1999 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Washington’s Hammer Provider of ship repair and maintenance services | $20K | 37 mo ago | Seed | Valeni Felton Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Accurate Precision Fasteners Manufacturer of aerospace bolts, screws, nuts and washers | — | — | Unfunded | Harry Jacobs Founder | 1947 | — | — | — |
| 6 | air traffic engineering Air Traffic Engineering offers modeling, simulation, FAA system, test & evaluation services for the aerospace… | — | — | Private | — | 2006 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Airborne Systems Provider of military parachute designing and manufacturing services | — | — | Acquired | Augustine Atuyapeni CEO | 1919 | WordPressPleskApple iCloud Mail+33 | — | 1 award |
| 8 | Amstatcorp Provider of business aviation market research data and analytics | — | — | Unfunded | — | 1982 | — | — | — |
Top 4 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey
#1
Series A · New Jersey · founded 1969$5.4Mraised▾
Series A · New Jersey · founded 1969
Provider of boat designing and building services
Founders & team
#2
Seed · Elizabeth, New Jersey · founded 2020$20Kraised▾
Seed · Elizabeth, New Jersey · founded 2020
Provider of ship repair and maintenance services
Founders & team
Investors
Techstars
#3
Seed · Glassboro, New Jersey · founded 2019 · 13 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Seed · Glassboro, New Jersey · founded 2019 · 13 employees
Manufacturer of electric vertical take-off and landing aircrafts
LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 15.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- Jun 2021Seed$1.8M
Tech stack
DiviGodaddyGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGsapJquery
#4
Early Stage · Moorestown, New Jersey · founded 1999$850Kraised▾
Early Stage · Moorestown, New Jersey · founded 1999
Offers operations and maintenance of vessels
Funding rounds
- Dec 2013Unattributed$850K
Founders & team
Tech stack
Godaddy Website BuilderPwaOpen Graph
Funding & investor landscape
$8.1Mtotal disclosed funding
4companies funded
2disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,424,695 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Aerospace, Maritime and Defense coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States
How research on Defense Technology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Defense Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 462 United States-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
200820172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 18% → 29% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
- Pennsylvania State University19
- United States Air Force Research Laboratory15
- United States Naval Academy12
- U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology10
- Naval Postgraduate School9
leading researchers
Stephen J. Cimbala · Charles Cerny · Richard K. Martin · James Tsui · Chi‐Hao Cheng · David Lin · Mary Lanzerotti · SaiDhiraj Amuru
▲
Breakthroughs85 · 18%
▲ 12%→29% share
▲2.4× share momentum1 median citations38% since 2021mostly methods-led
Robustness and Scalability research newly emerged, each claiming 6 papers, doubling Breakthroughs' field-share from 12% to 29%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Photonics2→4
- Jamming6→7
Newly emergingRobustness (evolution) 0→6 · Scalability 0→6
Landmark Jamming Bandits—A Novel Learning Method for Optimal Jamming · 90 cites
◆
Advancements135 · 29%
▼ 34%→26% share
▼0.8× share momentum2 median citations21% since 2021mostly methods-led
Electronic warfare leads Advancements at 55 papers, though segment field-share contracted from 34% to 26%.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Electronic warfare55
- Radar36
- Missile32
- Missile defense18
- Jamming12
Newly emergingDrone 0→5
Landmark Plasma physics and related challenges of millimeter-wave-to-terahertz and high power microwave generation · 624 cites
▼
Concerns150 · 32%
▼ 33%→29% share
▼0.9× share momentum1 median citations21% since 2021mostly position pieces
Cruise missile research intensified from 4 to 5 papers as Aerospace engineering doubled from 2 to 4 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Aerospace engineering2→4
- Cruise missile4→5
Landmark A communications jamming taxonomy · 112 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States
Where defense tech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Atlanta10 · +0.47
Boston7 · +0.26
SF Bay Area6 · +0.57
New York5 · -0.18
Los Angeles5 · +0.58
PATENT SIGNAL · United States
Who's filing defense tech patents in the United States
United States defense tech patent filing is accelerating — 57 filings from 65 assignees (2016–2025), led by Raytheon, BAE SYS INF & Elect SYS Integ, AAI; annual filings 3→6.
57 filings65 assigneespeak 10/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
- Raytheon17
- BAE SYS INF & Elect SYS Integ15
- AAI10
- Leonardo Electronics US10
- Lockheed10
- Rocky Research7
- Huggett James M5
- Stroili Frank D5
Common questions
How many Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies are there in New Jersey, United States?
Radar tracks 58 indexable Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies headquartered in New Jersey, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey, United States?
The Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey, United States on this list have raised a combined $8.1M in disclosed equity funding across 4 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Aerospace, Maritime and Defense company in New Jersey, United States?
Oceanrockets is the highest-funded Aerospace, Maritime and Defense company in New Jersey, United States, with $5.4M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey, United States are funded?
4 of the 58 Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Aerospace, Maritime and Defense unicorns are there in New Jersey, United States?
None of the Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies in New Jersey, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in New Jersey, United States Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies?
The most active investors in New Jersey, United States Aerospace, Maritime and Defense companies on this list include Court Square, J.F. Lehman & Company, Rfmd Investments, Techstars, White Wolf Capital.
Rohit KhannaTrends & Stories
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.