Authentise and Kform launch CHOPS model to accelerate defence manufacturing workflows
Authentise, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, and Kform, headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, have launched Project DDNA, the first operational implementation of a new delivery model: Continuous Hardware Ops (CHOPS). Already in use by US Department of Defense customers, CHOPS already been used to deliver parts for the world’s largest wind tunnel and re-engineered field-ready wearables in under eight weeks.
Built on Authentise’s Threads and Flows and Kform’s design-to-build infrastructure, CHOPS uses a live, contextual and fully traceable feedback loop from concept through manufacturing, developed to meet the speed and complexity requirements of defence programmes.
Andre Wegner, CEO of Authentise, stated, “Our first prime contracts in reverse engineering made it brutally obvious. Every project starts from zero because none of the prior decisions – why that material, that geometry, that process – are ever captured. DDNA changes that. It builds context into the process, so we stop relearning what we already knew.”
Supporting supply chain readiness, DDNA enables programmes to compress development timelines from years to months, without losing traceability or scalability as organisations launch new systems, scale production, or modernise legacy parts.
Callye Keen, CEO of Kform, commented, “We’re not pitching a product. This is a new category. It connects engineering, manufacturing, and quality assurance in real time. It’s what lets small teams move fast, scaled up for the biggest problems in defence.”
Wegner added, “We’ve spent decades making reverse engineering too expensive, and modern manufacturing too opaque. The cost of not having context is massive and we’re still repeating the same mistakes. CHOPS is the fix.”
Authentise and Kform are currently working with early adopters to bring CHOPS to more DoD programmes.
