Veteran-owned defense and human-performance technology

Forged in Service. Built for Battle. Engineered for Recovery. Powered by Innovation.

Obsidian Core Innovations is advancing a dual-use technology mission: AI-enabled systems and robotics for demanding operational environments, adapted to improve mobility and independence for disabled veterans.

Cinematic Obsidian Core Innovations emblem with the four brand pillars, drones, and warfighters

Core capabilities

Focused support for defense, government, and mission partners operating where information quality, system availability, and trained personnel directly affect outcomes.

01

Command & Control

COP integration, operational workflows, data-layer management, and decision-support alignment.

02

Cybersecurity

Practical security engineering and operational resilience across mission-support environments.

03

AI Data Fusion

Human-centered automation that helps teams organize, validate, and act on complex information.

04

Systems Engineering

Integration planning, requirements alignment, sustainment, and lifecycle-focused technical support.

05

Robotics & Human Performance

Dual-use concepts spanning wearable robotics, adaptive assistance, human-machine integration, and mobility support.

One technology base. Two missions.

OCI's long-term R&D direction is to translate advances in sensing, autonomy, adaptive control, and wearable robotics between defense operations and veteran rehabilitation.

Mission one

Warfighter augmentation

Explore AI-enabled robotics and sensor-fusion concepts intended to improve endurance, awareness, load management, and operator effectiveness in austere environments.

Wearable roboticsSensor fusionAdaptive controlHuman-machine teaming

Mission two

Veteran mobility and rehabilitation

Adapt the same enabling technologies toward assistive-mobility solutions for veterans living with spinal cord injuries, lower-limb amputations, and related mobility limitations.

Spinal cord injuryLimb lossAssistive mobilityRehabilitation technology

Flagship development concept

APEX

Adaptive Predictive Exoskeleton

APEX is OCI's proposed modular exoskeleton concept: a platform intended to combine real-time sensing, adaptive assistance, and human-centered controls. The vision is a technology architecture that can support warfighter performance research while informing future assistive-mobility applications for veterans with spinal cord injuries and lower-limb amputations.

Built around service and independence

OCI's mission connects operational experience with an unmet human need: technology developed for demanding missions should also help injured veterans regain mobility, autonomy, and quality of life.

SecureProtect information, workflows, and essential services.
IntegrateConnect platforms, organizations, and operational context.
AdvanceTurn experience and emerging technology into usable capability.

Partner with OCI

Bring us the operational problem.

Tell us what the mission requires, where the current system falls short, and what success must look like.