Mission-ready platform
Unlimited uptime and multiple payloads with tethered power and secure, high-speed data.
Platform capabilities
We build a payload-agnostic, long-endurance aerial platform
USaS was founded by experienced telecommunications executives and miliary veterans with 60+ years of mission-critical hardware, software, and services experience. We design secure, tethered drone platforms for any drone that integrate with the payloads you already use, so your teams can deploy faster, fly longer, and transmit data securely.
DRONE PLATFORMS, PRODUCTS, SERVICES
LEAP, USaS’s Long Endurance Aerial Platform, delivers continuous power and a secure, hard-wired, closed-loop for command, control, and high-bandwidth data—at heights up to ~400 ft. Both payload- and drone-agnostic, LEAP’s modular design provides rapid, mobile, multi-mission capabilities. Available in four models – LEAP Tactical, Solo 5K, Solo 10K, and Solo 20K – to handle payloads from 2 lbs. to 120 lbs., elevations from 200’ to 600’, and mission lengths from multiple hours to multiple days.
Committed to technical excellence, mission flexibility, and reliability.
Built for the missions that matter
Edge Compute: Bring AI-based ISR, targeting, and communications applications to the field for immediate impact.
Field Communications: Create high-speed, secure data and voice links when connectivity is unavailable or compromised.
Persistent Surveillance: Keep eyes, ears, and sensors in the sky for hours or days with local or remote backhaul.
Counter-UAS: Rapidly deploy a 400’+ platform for multiple detection, targeting, and kinetic payloads.
Inspection: Heavier sensors provide better data, edge compute provides real-time analysis, and backhaul minimizes wasted runs.
Sr. Leaders
Experience you can trust
Stephen McKenna CEO/General Counsel
Stephen McKenna is an attorney, entrepreneur and former senior executive at Telmar Network Technologies – an international provider of electronics and telecom equipment repair, return, logistics, warehousing, R&D and spare parts management for Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Verizon, AT&T, Orange, and many other OEMs and service providers. In addition, Steve was a senior executive for a $650 million US wireless tower services company and an international OEM / distributor of microwave transmission products. An active angel investor with venture capital and private equity experience, Steve also founded and sold a technology company and was an attorney advising retail, online and brick and mortar businesses on intellectual property, contracts, litigation and general corporate matters.
Paul Corry President
Paul Corry is a creative, technology focused entrepreneur with executive level, business experience as a regional VP with Jabil Circuits, a leading global contract manufacturer, and executive with other Fortune 500 technology based companies. Paul has led local and global teams to successfully deliver innovative solutions which directly improved his customers’ competitiveness. Paul, has the vision to see the long-term opportunity and the management skills to develop and execute a plan to get there. A creative, results proven Business Development and Marketing Executive with the experience to analyze the market and deliver a winning strategy, Paul is a co-founder and President of USaS. Paul graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of science degree. Paul is a retired Petty officer from the Royal Canadian Navy Reserves.
Pete Dwyer VP Services
Pete Dwyer was the UAS Detachment Officer in Charge for the US Navy in Afghanistan until early 2016 and is one of the country’s most qualified, experienced UAS professionals. A Naval Academy graduate and rotary wing pilot, Pete combines actual UAS program experience with subject matter expertise on civilian and government FAA policies and regulations. Before and after his latest deployment, Pete advised companies and governments on UAS tethered drone system programs and FAA compliance, as well as acting as a program manager for disaster and continuity planning projects for the White House Military Office, US national intelligence community, US Navy Office of Legislative Affairs, US Senate and others.
Technical & Operational Team
Leonardo de Campos Lead Engineer
Leonardo graduated from the University of South Florida with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. For his USF senior project, Leonardo and his team built a quadcopter from scratch working closely with MOTE Marine Labs' preservation research effort. Leonardo's professional experience includes designing a collapsible catapult and being the project lead on the design and manufacturing of an assembly line robotic arm. Leonardo is professionally certified in FEA simulation, Mechanical Design, and CAM, as well as proficient in MatLab, LabView and Python software. In addition to providing creative and insightful design solutions to the many engineering challenges he faces Leonardo is also an FAA Pt. 107 certified pilot.
Leonardo is also trilingual - English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Robert J. Hall Senior Advisor Software, AI/ML
Robert J. Hall earned the PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in E.E.C.S at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1991-2023 he was Principal Investigator at Bell Labs Research (moving to AT&T Labs when it was founded), working in the areas of automated software engineering, requirements engineering, modeling and simulation, scalable wireless network protocols, cloud performance engineering, and drone autonomy. He is a Fellow of Automated Software Engineering and member of the Steering and Program Committees of the IEEE/ACM International Conferences on Automated Software Engineering. He served as Editor in Chief of the journal Automated Software Engineering for 12 years and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In addition to his work with USaS, Bob is Chief Innovator with Zoomwhirl Innovations LLC.
Jason Stark Senior Program Manager
Jason Stark is a U.S. Army combat wounded Veteran who served in the US Army as a Mobile Subscriber Equipment Operator (31FV4) with NATO Secret and Top-Secret security clearances. Jason actively served during Operations DESERT STORM/SHIELD and Operation SOUTHERN WATCH in Southwest Asia while a member of the 82nd airborne and Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR in Bosnia where he doubled as a combat lifesaver in the 3rd infantry division. After the Army, Jason worked with Lucent Technologies in Europe as a 5th generation electronic switching system (5ess) engineer and was part of the team that developed the AnyMedia Access system. Jason next returned to Southwest Asia with Booze Allen Hamilton as a DoD contractor at Prince Sultan air base Saudi Arabia and in Qatar. In Qatar, Jason was an outside plant design engineer. After Boze Allen, Jason contracted with Siemens as an Inside Plant engineer for the Munich Airport communications link overhaul.
Jason holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an Associate Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ludwig-Maximilians University, a Bachelors in Science from Keiser University, and an Associate Degree in Computer Science from Rasmussen University. Jason is a licensed Radiological Technologist and FAA Part 107 SUAS pilot.
Nicole Paille Manager of Programs & Production
Nicola L. Paille serves as the Manager of Programs & Production at Unmanned Systems and Solutions (USaS). In this capacity, she provides support across production, quality assurance, research and development, operational testing, and program execution. She contributes extensive operational and managerial experience obtained during 23 years of service in the United States Air Force.
Nicola’s most recent military assignment was as Operations Superintendent and MQ-9 Instructor Sensor Operator with the 12th Special Operations Squadron, Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico—Air Force Special Operations Command’s sole RPA Launch and Recovery Squadron. Her career includes key leadership positions in diagnostic imaging and wing protocol, as well as operational support to Operations ENDURING FREEDOM, IRAQI FREEDOM, U.S. Central Command missions, and Operation OCTAVE SHIELD while deployed to Chabelley Airfield, Republic of Djibouti.
Alejandra Garcia Technical Assembler & Drone Power Specialist
Alejandra Garcia is a technical assembler and drone-power specialist with 10 years of experience in the aerospace industry. She has contributed to major programs with Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, and Boeing, including hands-on work with Boeing 737 aircraft interior systems. At Boeing, Alejandra also performed detailed calibration work and led long-duration vibration testing assignments across multiple aircraft components, ensuring reliability and compliance with rigorous aviation standards.
Under Lockheed Martin, Alejandra supported the TPY radar program, gaining deep experience with high-reliability radar system components. She also played a key role on a specialized engineering team that delivered advanced lighting solutions for U.S. Navy submarines, demonstrating her versatility across air, land, and maritime platforms.
Alejandra holds an Associate Degree from UNLV and maintains IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 certifications, reinforcing her commitment to quality and precision.