Advanced Aerospace & Defense Solutions
HEKA is an engineering practice specializing in aerospace, defense, and industrial applications. Headquartered on Florida's Space Coast in Melbourne, Florida, it designs and builds productized technologies including certifiable software, common avionics, and mission-ready hardware. Its solutions compress the path from requirements to flight through digital engineering, real-time embedded systems, and rapid prototyping. Key proprietary products include the HEKALink simulation platform, HEKOS safety-critical real-time operating system, Nautilus dead-reckoning IMU, and RF Lamprey software-defined radio system.
Chris MarotCEO & President
Tammy Newstead-OwenDirector of Finance
Leigh SmithProject Manager / Scrum Master
Embedded systems development, real-time safety-critical applications, and artificial intelligence integration for aerospace platforms.
Development of flight-critical control and management software built to rigorous aerospace safety standards.
Engineering of real-time embedded software architectures for mission-critical hardware.
Design and implementation of guidance development frameworks and multi-degree-of-freedom control algorithms.
Deployment of adaptive control algorithms, sensor fusion, and spectrographic analysis engines.
Creating high-fidelity digital twin environments for the simulation and validation of flight control systems.
Design and development of high-performance circuits, power management systems, and communication electronics.
Custom circuit board design, layout, and optimization for aerospace-grade hardware.
Development of communication systems featuring adaptive frequency hopping and electronic warfare resilience.
Integration of standard avionics, flight controllers, and safety-critical vehicle management architectures.
Real-time processing and fusion of navigation, positional, and environmental sensors.
Precision mechanical design, CAD modeling, and thermal/structural analysis for rugged aerospace hardware.
Three-dimensional CAD modeling, structural analysis, and thermal simulation for propulsion systems.
Development of advanced vertical takeoff and landing propulsion technology, including tilt-rotor designs.
Physical prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop testing of custom mechanical and electromechanical structures.
Rapid development of cutting-edge prototypes for aerospace and defense applications.
Agile and Waterfall project management support to accelerate engineering timelines and manage complex system development.
Aerospace · Defense · Industrial
Aerospace · Client: eVTOL Aircraft Developer
Designed and developed flight-critical software and electronic architectures to accelerate certification pathways and reduce integration risk.
Aerospace · Client: Hypersonics Aerospace Program
Engineered advanced six-degree-of-freedom guidance algorithms and control framework simulations for hypersonic flight programs.
Defense · Client: MARTAC
Partnered to deliver mission-critical software and electronic solutions for tactical autonomous watercraft operations.