The structural materials of American air power — aluminum, titanium, refined manganese — flow through supply chains our adversaries dominate. Russia and China sit astride the production and refinement of the metals that every airframe, engine, and munition depends on. And even where the metal is available, the manufacturing is stuck: modern aerospace and defense systems are still built around composite and metalworking processes that haven’t fundamentally changed in decades — hours or days per part, capital-intensive tooling, and geometries constrained by legacy methods. The choke point is material. The choke point is also time.
Composites built for what’s next.
Hybron’s hybrid chopped-fiber polymer process manufactures carbon fiber composite parts up to 100x faster than traditional methods — minutes instead of hours or days — entirely on U.S. soil, with no foreign choke points and no security risk. The materials are 3x lighter than titanium, 5x lower cost than legacy composites, and capable of complex, consolidated geometries that replace entire metal assemblies. The applications land where the arsenal hurts most: composite artillery shells with 30x faster production speeds and 40x less capital intensity, reshoring an entire munitions supply chain; the world’s first composite compressor blades, proven at full power in a fighter jet engine; and airframes that expand what’s possible for UAVs, missiles, and manned aircraft. Built in El Segundo. 100% American-made and controlled.
More Thoughts From the Team at BVVC:
“Wars are won by industrial systems, and industrial systems are hostage to their inputs. The West rebuilt its awareness of semiconductor dependence the hard way; it has not yet internalized that the same dependence runs through the structural metals of every aircraft and artillery shell we field. When your adversary refines your titanium, your production capacity is a courtesy they extend to you. That is the blind spot Hybron attacks at the root.
The insight is not merely substitution — composites for metals — it is speed. Legacy composites were always lighter; they were never fast or cheap enough to replace metal at scale. Hybron’s process changes that arithmetic: parts in minutes, at a fifth of the cost, from a domestic supply chain, with performance that put the first composite compressor blade inside an operating fighter engine. When the same technology produces artillery shells at 30x the speed and a fraction of the capital, it stops being a materials company and becomes munitions capacity.
We invest in Teams, and this one is young, fast, and building exactly what the moment demands. The nation that makes things faster, lighter, and at home holds the advantage. Hybron is putting American strength back in American hands.”
“Modern aerospace and defense systems are still built around manufacturing processes that haven’t fundamentally changed in decades.”
– Brennan Lieu, CEO and Co-Founder