Deploy
Lanes marked in seconds, not minutes.
Designed for emplacement with reduced dismount exposure. Faster tempo, less risk at the breach point.
For combat engineers
Unsolved since 2003
No soldier should die planting a $300 pole.
Combat engineers still often have to mark cleared breach lanes by hand, stepping out under fire to place chem lights and a flag. BreachOn replaces that step with a low-cost, expendable marker built to reduce exposure at the breach point, stay visible in daylight, night vision, and thermal, and add a lane status layer for situational awareness.
Sponsored by XVIII Airborne Corps
100+ operator interviews
NSF I-Corps Regional Cohort
Earned, not assumed
Built by a team that conducted discovery with combat engineers at JRTC and Fort Liberty. Sponsored by XVIII Airborne Corps, partnered with the Joint Innovation Outpost, and validated across 100+ operator interviews — before a single component was machined.
The problem
Lane marking hasn’t changed.
Lane marking hasn’t changed.
The threat has.
Today
Manual. Fragile. Blind.
Engineers dismount under fire to plant chem lights and a $300 marking pole — the same procedure used in 2003. The pole is barely visible at night, invisible to thermal, and tells the TOC nothing about whether the lane is open. A Lieutenant Colonel called the existing automated system “as close to useless as possible.”
BreachOn
Deployable. Multi-modal. Connected.
A low-cost, expendable marker system that deploys fast, works across daylight, NV, and thermal — built toward real-time lane status at the TOC.
100+
Operator interviews
1
Working prototype
XVIII
Airborne Corps — problem sponsor
JIOP
Joint Innovation Outpost partner
System capabilities
One marker.
Every phase of the breach.
From the engineer at the breach point to the commander tracking the lane, BreachOn is designed for the full breaching sequence.
Detect
Detected across common sensor modes.
Designed for visibility in daylight, NVG, and thermal.
All forces in the lane
Guide
Follow-on forces move without guesswork.
A visible breadcrumb trail through the proofed lane, designed to reduce confusion for follow-on forces.
Assault & follow-on forces
Command
Lane awareness for command, not just the ground
A lane status layer for decision dominance in command — the physical marker built to become a C2 asset.
For commanders & TOC
Value proposition
One system that closes the gap from breach to command
BreachOn improves lane awareness for every user in the breaching sequence — the engineer marking it, the forces moving through it, and the commander tracking it.
1
Deploy
Markers are emplaced along a cleared lane to reduce the burden of slow, manual marking workflows.
2
Mark
Visual, IR, and thermal signatures help the lane stay visible across changing operational conditions.
3
Guide
Follow-on vehicles and troops can navigate the proofed route with greater confidence and speed.
4
Extend
Future capability can add networked lane status and tactical awareness without overstating what exists today.
Traction
Validated by the operators
who will use it.
Built from 100+ conversations with combat engineers, assault force leaders, and TOC officers — the actual users, not proxies. Then we built the hardware.
100+
Operator interviews
Direct discovery across combat engineers, assault leaders, and commanders. Every design decision traces back to a real conversation.
1
Working prototype
Hardware built. BreachOn is not a concept — it is a physical system.
XVIII
Airborne Corps — problem sponsor
America’s contingency corps owns this problem. Their sponsorship defines the requirement and opens the direct acquisition pathway.
JIOP
Joint Innovation Outpost — partner
Embedded with the XVIII Corps acquisition cell at Fort Liberty — where rapid technology transition from prototype to fielding actually happens.
Why now
The operational timing matters
Large-scale combat operations, low-cost sensing, and the absence of a scalable lane-awareness layer make this timing meaningful.
LSCO demands speed and clarity
Breaching and mobility operations need faster lane establishment and more confident follow-on maneuver.
Low-cost sensing is practical now
Compact hardware, visibility modes, and tactical integration pathways make this category more viable today.
No scalable lane-awareness layer exists
BreachOn is positioned where survivability, visibility, and coordination intersect.
Today → next → future
A wedge product with a credible expansion path
The platform logic stays intact, but the sequence is explicit: current hardware first, networked lane awareness next, distributed sensing later.
Deployable lane markers
Low-cost, expendable markers focused on improving visibility, survivability, and maneuver tempo.
- Physical wedge into a real mission workflow
- Clear replacement thesis versus fragile manual markers
Networked lane status
Tracking and tactical data sharing can evolve the marker into a shared lane-awareness layer.
- Digital status visibility for command and control
- Potential interoperability with existing tactical interfaces
Distributed sensing nodes
BreachOn grows from lane marking into deploy-and-forget situational awareness in contested environments.
- Movement detection and environmental sensing
- A path toward autonomous breaching support
Team & origin
Built from a problem-first defense innovation process
BreachOn was built problem-first. We listened before we engineered.
BreachOn
BreachOn originated from a University of Florida Hacking for Defense team and NSF I-Corps Regional Cohort, working against a real operational problem set. The company thesis is straightforward: lane marking should no longer be an afterthought during breaching operations. It should be a survivability and situational-awareness tool.
Lane marking is the wedge. The long-term opportunity is a broader layer of battlefield awareness that
starts with a real mission need.
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