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Blackstone Announces Significant Investment to Launch Falcata, Leader in Next-Generation Interceptor Technologies

Business Wire•01/10/2026•09:00 ET
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Key Highlights

  • ➤Blackstone (BX) launches Falcata through acquisitions of TSC and ASEI
  • ➤Falcata combines interceptor guidance, sensing, navigation and control technologies
  • ➤Falcata plans expanded manufacturing capacity, technology investment and talent additions

Expert Statements

Jonathan Moneymaker, Chairman of Falcata

“The United States needs a defense industrial base capable of combating the evolving threats facing our warfighters.”

Jonathan Moneymaker, Chairman of Falcata

“Recent conflicts have demonstrated that lower-cost interceptors are a cornerstone of our national security strategy.”

Jonathan Moneymaker, Chairman of Falcata

“Producing more interceptors requires greater capacity across critical sensing, guidance, navigation and control technologies inside them.”

Jonathan Moneymaker, Chairman of Falcata

“We are building Falcata to deliver the technology America and its allies need – at the scale the mission demands.”

David Kaden, Senior Managing Director at Blackstone

“Falcata answers a critical national security challenge.”

David Kaden, Senior Managing Director at Blackstone

“With deeper resources, expanded manufacturing capacity and a unified engineering base, Falcata will help ensure our industrial base is ready to advance capability faster and break the supply chain chokepoints that our national defense increasingly requires.”

Brandon Wolfson, CEO of Falcata

“Partnered with Blackstone, we have the resources to build and scale to dramatically expand what we can offer our customers.”

Brandon Wolfson, CEO of Falcata

“We can now pursue bigger challenges, invest ahead of their needs and move critical technologies from development into production faster, while maintaining the technical rigor, agility and customer focus that have made both companies successful.”

Blackstone Announces Significant Investment to Launch Falcata, Leader in Next-Generation Interceptor Technologies

Funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) to acquire TSC and ASEI, and combine companies under Falcata platform – helping expand America’s interceptor industrial base to counter the proliferation of inexpensive aerial threats

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