US-built harnesses, power and enclosures for unmanned vehicles. Paperwork included.
Bighorn Robotics is working on build-to-print sub-assemblies for teams building autonomous ground vehicles (UGVs) and small surface vessels (USVs), delivered with the traceability and compliance documentation that defense programs ask for.
Your engineers should be building the robot, not chasing cables and certs.
Small UGV and USV teams win prototype contracts, then hit the production wall: harnesses, battery packs and enclosures get built ad hoc. US-content, specialty-metals and magnet-sourcing questions land on whoever is free, and every new vehicle variant restarts the cycle.
Production, not prototypes
Moving from hand-built units to repeatable, inspected builds without hiring a production team first.
Documentation that holds up
Country of origin, material certs and supplier screens, tied to each assembly instead of rebuilt for every proposal.
Rules that keep tightening
Specialty metals, the 2027 magnet restrictions and Buy American requirements reach further down the supply chain every year.
The sub-assemblies between the platform and the autonomy.
The hull or chassis, the sensors and the software are yours. We focus on the pieces that tie them together and that most teams would rather not build in-house.
Harnesses & cable assemblies
Vehicle and marine harnesses, sensor and radio cabling, with rugged circular and Deutsch-style connectors.
Battery & power distribution
Battery packs, fused power distribution and DC-DC conversion for 24/28/48 V systems.
Rugged & marine enclosures
Sealed compute and electronics boxes with bulkhead connectors, built for vibration, water and salt.
Masts & autonomy-kit hardware
Sensor and antenna masts, mounting, and the integration hardware that bolts an autonomy kit onto a vehicle or boat.
From a photo or a print to a part number you can reorder.
Intake
Send a drawing or just a description of the gap: what it connects, where it lives, how many you need.
Scope
We confirm connectors, routing, environment, sourcing constraints and the documentation your program requires.
Prototype
A first article in your hands to test on the vehicle, not a slide deck.
Production
Repeatable builds through vetted US partners, each delivered with its documentation package.
Documentation designed around defense flow-downs.
The goal is a documentation package that travels with every assembly, so your proposal and compliance teams aren't rebuilding it each time.
- Bill of materials with maker and country of origin
- Specialty-metals sourcing and melt certificates where applicable
- Magnet supply-chain information (DFARS 252.225-7052)
- Buy American / qualifying-country status by component
- Covered-supplier screens (e.g., NDAA §889, §1260H lists)
- Build and inspection records traceable to serial number
Bighorn Robotics is an early-stage company. We don't yet hold certifications or registrations, and we'll be explicit about which requirements a given build meets. Please don't send export-controlled or CUI technical data before we've confirmed together how to handle it.
Tell us what you're building.
A few sentences are enough: the vehicle, the sub-assembly that's giving you trouble, and rough quantities.
hello@bighornrobotics.com(Please don't attach drawings to a first email.)