Veteran-owned and operated

Scale the UAS capability you already have. Build new capabilities into your organization.

Harbor works alongside your team to prepare and deliver UAS training, integrate and operate UAS in your exercises, and support demonstrations. We bring additional capacity, practical instruction and technical expertise to help you achieve your objectives.

  • Capacity now: More people, preparation and support around your existing team.
  • Capability afterward: Stronger skills, shared knowledge and more work your people can perform in-house.

01 / Overview

Military units.
OEMs and primes.
Industry teams.

Who we support
We support military units, OEMs, primes and industry teams preparing UAS training, exercises and demonstrations, or developing a new UAS capability.
Why they call us
Customers come to us to combine Harbor’s knowledge, expertise and capabilities with their own to accomplish more; develop a new capability within their organization; or bring additional people and expertise into a specific event.
What we help accomplish
We help customers deliver more training, run well-prepared exercises and demonstrations, and put new UAS capabilities into practice. Practical instruction gives their people skills they can use to operate or maintain systems and train others.
How we work
We work with each customer’s leadership to define the objectives and agree on responsibilities. We then bring together the operators, instructors, equipment, technical support and preparation needed to deliver the agreed work.

02 / Packages

Three packages.
Use one or combine them.

Add to your existing team, develop your people, or have Harbor plan and run the agreed UAS part of your exercise. Each package starts with what you want to accomplish and what you need next.

Scale your exercise team

Add operators, instructors and technical support around your existing lead, with clear responsibilities for the event.

For example

  • Friendly-force or opposing-force UAS roles in an exercise
  • UAS support for manufacturer and contractor demonstrations
  • Additional operators and technical support when your own team is stretched

Develop your team’s in-house capability

Help your people learn to operate or maintain UAS, or teach others, so they can take on work they could not do before.

For example

  • Learning to operate a system that is new to your team
  • Hands-on assembly and maintenance instruction
  • Preparing your instructors to teach others

Plan and integrate UAS into your exercise

Harbor plans, sets up and runs the agreed friendly-force or opposing-force UAS activity, coordinated with your exercise leadership.

For example

  • An opposing-force UAS team that Harbor prepares and runs for your exercise
  • A friendly-force UAS element delivered by Harbor when you have no in-house UAS team
  • Planning and on-site advice when your own pilots will fly

Bring the right specialists together around your team’s questions.

Practical instruction and shared problem-solving help your people apply new knowledge to the equipment, preparation and training they own.

03 / Illustrative example

An experienced team.
A new requirement.

A hypothetical scenario showing how an engagement could work.

Your team is preparing an exercise that needs more UAS activity and a capability it has not used before. You may have your own UAS personnel, or need Harbor to run that part of the event.

Harbor works with your exercise lead to define the UAS roles, equipment and preparation. We can add specialists to your team or plan, set up and run the agreed UAS element. Practical instruction can help your people learn to operate or maintain the systems involved.

The intended result: more training delivered, a new UAS activity put into practice, and skills your people can use at the next event.

Start with the next event.
Build from what you learn.

After the engagement, review what worked, what your team can now handle, and where support would be useful next. Future work can follow your training calendar, new personnel and changing requirements.

04 / Process

Built around your objectives.

Your Harbor package sets out who will be on the ground, what we will provide and what it will cost. We begin with a scoping call with a core Harbor team member and a subject matter expert to understand your objectives and define the requirements.

We then build a team of pilots, instructors and technical specialists best suited to the work. Our aim is to present a complete package within 48 hours of defining your requirements, with team roles, equipment, preparation, travel and pricing clearly laid out for review.

  1. Define the requirement together

    Bring your objectives, dates, location and existing capabilities. Harbor and a subject matter expert help identify the team, equipment and preparation the work calls for.

  2. Review the package and prepare

    Work through the proposed team, plan and itemized budget with us. Agree the final scope and costs, confirm responsibilities and approvals, and coordinate how Harbor integrates with your event.

  3. Deliver on the ground

    Perform the agreed UAS roles or support your personnel in carrying them out, coordinated with event leadership.

  4. Review and inform the next step

    Discuss observations and equipment limitations. Provide written feedback and recommendations where included in the scope.

05 / The team

Operational and training experience,
from planning through the debrief.

Harbor’s founders draw from the internal team and a wider network of pilots, instructors and technical specialists with Army and Air Force backgrounds spanning SOCOM and JSOC, special operations aviation, unmanned systems and the defense industry. Their experience includes real-world operations, exercise planning and execution, and operator and instructor training.

Each proposed team member’s relevant background, UAS experience, and platform familiarity are discussed privately during scoping.

Zac Boeckmann

Co-Founder

  • West Point ’16: Mechanical Engineering
  • Notre Dame Law ’28
  • Former Detachment Commander
    3rd Special Forces Group
  • 313

Cole Wheeler

Co-Founder & Owner-Operator

  • West Point ’16: Defense and Strategic Studies / Systems Engineering
  • Former Troop Commander, 2CR
  • 313

Joe Pervall

Co-Founder

  • West Point ’16: Law / Environmental Engineering
  • Northwestern-Kellogg MBA ’27
  • Former Detachment Commander
    3rd Special Forces Group
  • 313

06 / Your requirement

Tell us what your team needs to accomplish.

Start with your objectives, timing and the capability you want to build or expand.

  • What are you preparing for?
  • What can your team already do?
  • What do you need to do that your team cannot do yet?
  • What should your people be able to do afterward?
  • What would make the engagement successful?
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