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BreachON markers seen through night vision on a cleared lane
Combat engineering · contested mobility

Intelligent lane marking for contested mobility.

Reduce engineer exposure. Guide follow-on forces. Digitize cleared lanes.

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The problem

Engineers dismount into the most dangerous ground on the battlefield to mark a lane nobody can see.

Stakes, tape, cones, chem lights, and poles. Every one of them requires a Soldier to work exposed in a breach lane.

Then smoke, dust, and darkness swallow the markers, and the formation behind slows, drifts, and clogs cleared lanes.

BreachON markers glowing along a cleared lane at night

One throw, and the lane stays visible all night.

Observed range · NTC

Seen at ~500 meters, not 20.

Current-issue marker ~20m
BreachON ~500m
0100200 300400500 m
Same observerGen III NVG, no IR illuminator NTC field observationRepresentative, not a certified test
The capability

BreachON turns a cleared lane into a persistent physical and digital reference for maneuver.

BreachON marker unit
Deploy

Deployed, not planted

  • Hand-placed or thrown
  • Orientation-agnostic
  • One-at-a-time dispensing
  • Dismounted today; vehicle and robotic emplacement in development
BreachON marker seen through night vision
Guide

Seen across optics

  • Human-visible signature
  • IR / NVG signature
  • Thermal signature
  • Remote signature control
BreachON lane visualized in TAK
Digitize

The lane appears in C2

  • Passage lane drawn in FM 1-02.2 symbology
  • Live lane status
  • Marker position
  • Battery and mission metadata
Shared awareness

No radio call. No grid read-back. The commander sees the lane.

Each marker emits multi-spectral light and reports its position to TAK, giving commanders a shared view of lane location and status and remote control of marker signatures. TAK visualization has been demonstrated in Army field experimentation. Integration into operational TAK environments is in development.

Operational effect

Less exposure. Faster passage. Preserved combat power.

01

Survivability

Reduces dismounted exposure at the point of greatest risk.

02

Tempo

Accelerates passage through the breach.

03

Precision

Enables precise maneuver inside the cleared lane.

04

Combat power

More combat power reaches the objective.

Built with Soldiers

Developed through direct Soldier input and Army field experimentation.

200+

Operational interviews

Soldiers, engineers, commanders, and acquisition stakeholders consistently identified the same gap.

2026

DIU Fellowship

Selected for DIU's national-security commercialization program, carrying non-dilutive funding and transition support.

2

Army field experiments

Visible/IR, networking, and TAK demonstrated at NTC. Thermal demonstrated through Bradley optics at Fort Hood.

Worked alongside
20th Engineer Battalion20th Engineer Bn. XVIII Airborne CorpsXVIII Airborne Corps NTC SidewindersNTC Sidewinders Defense Innovation UnitDefense Innovation Unit Army Pathway for Innovation and Technology (PIT)Army Pathway for Innovation and Technology (PIT) Common Mission ProjectCommon Mission Project Army Applications LaboratoryArmy Applications Lab Hacking for DefenseHacking for Defense UF Engineering Innovation InstituteUF Engineering Innovation Institute

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