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Mission Engineering · AI · Defense · Intelligence · Space
Decision advantage,
Decision advantage,
by design.
Tallaios brings aerospace-grade systems engineering and practical AI expertise to organizations that need to turn complex problems into operational capability.
The hardest part of any complex system is rarely the technology in isolation. It's making strategy, engineering, and people work together — under real constraints, against real adversaries, with results that hold up in the field.
01 / Capabilities
Four disciplines, one mission.
From concept to capability
System architecture and design, requirements analysis, and the hands-on engineering that turns a concept into a capability that delivers mission results.
Your CAIO or CTO, on contract
Chief AI Officer or CTO leadership on a contract basis — senior technical direction and decision-making without committing to a full-time hire.
Ideas that inspire
Keynotes, technical writing, and mentoring that bring teams and audiences up to speed on AI, analytics, and systems thinking — fast.
02 / Approach
Orient. Architect. Deliver.
Orient
Understand the mission, the constraints, and the environment before a single solution is on the table. The work starts with the problem, not the model.
Architect
Design the strategy and the technical path together — grounded in what is genuinely buildable, fundable, and operable at scale.
Deliver
Move from concept to capability: build, integrate, and stand it up — then make sure it keeps working once it's in operational hands.
03 / Principal
Patrick T. Biltgen, Ph.D.
Pat works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and mission engineering for defense, intelligence, and space clients. His expertise spans aerospace engineering, systems engineering, data science, and analytic software development. He has held multiple technical leadership and executive positions in the defense community. Most recently, he led systems engineering for a space domain awareness data analytics framework supporting a national-security client.
As a director of analytics and data science, Pat led the development of an innovative prototype for monitoring treaty violations from open-source information and drove trade studies for new intelligence and analytic systems. In 2016, he co-authored Activity-Based Intelligence: Principles and Applications, reflecting his work deploying the first large-scale ABI software for an IC partner.
His work has been recognized with the 2018 Edwin Land Industry Award from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the ODNI's National Intelligence Integration Award, and the Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence. He has served on the board of directors of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.
Pat holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech, where he studied under Professor Dimitri Mavris at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory. His dissertation applied AI methods to the conceptual design of a long-range strike aircraft.
Education
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering · Georgia Tech
Author
Recognition
INSA Edwin Land Award · Neil Armstrong Award of Excellence · GT Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award
04 / The Legend
The story behind the name
Wondering about the name? We're in the Golden Age of AI, but our company was forged in the Bronze Age.
In Greek myth, Talos was a guardian forged of bronze — a living automaton, and one of the oldest stories humankind ever told about an artificial being. Zeus set him to watch over Crete, and three times a day he circled the island on bronze feet, scanning the horizon and turning back anything that threatened the people he protected.
His name also carries the sun. In the old Cretan tongue, talôs meant the sun itself, and the island worshipped Zeus under the epithet Tallaios — "Solar Zeus," the bright sentinel tracing the same faithful arc across the sky, day after day.
An artificial guardian. A steady orbit. The sun. Three ideas, thousands of years old, that turn out to describe the work exactly — intelligent systems, engineered with care, keeping watch over the missions that matter.
05 / Contact
Request a briefing.
Tell us what you're working on. We reply to serious inquiries within two business days and treat every conversation as confidential.
Direct info@tallaios.com
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