El Segundo, CA, January 2020

HCI Equity Partners is pleased to announce its investment in Pacific Defense, a new defense electronics platform. The platform consists of two initial investments: Spectranetix and Perceptronics. Spectranetix, headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, provides open architecture systems to a variety of ground, sea and air military platforms to address constantly evolving electronic warfare threats. Perceptronics, located in Falls Church, VA, provides artificial intelligence, decision support and machine learning software to defense applications. Pacific Defense serves all branches of the U.S. Dept. of Defense as well as Defense Primes.

The Pacific Defense platform is will be led by Travis Slocumb and a team of executives with over 100 years of collective experience in the defense industry.