Areté is a strong, growing, employee-owned company dedicated to revolutionizing the mission effectiveness of our National Security customers through responsive, innovative, and cost-effective remote sensing solutions. Most of our technical products are "platform agnostic" signal processing enhancements able to significantly improve the performance of existing systems without the need to invest in costly new ones..

Our name, derived from the Greek word areté, means the achievement of maximum performance, the pursuit of excellence. This heritage is reflected in our Guiding Principles. Since our founding in 1976, Areté Associates has enjoyed a continuous increase in satisfied customers, earning a well-deserved reputation for the quality and innovation of the solutions that we provide. Areté currently has over 300 employees in seven locations, lead by an outstanding team of Company Officers and Areté Fellows. We actively recruit like-minded professionals looking for challenging career opportunities as members of the Areté Workforce.

Areté’s market is national security, with specific emphasis on advanced technology development and exploitation for the defense and intelligence sectors. Descriptions of these technologies are provided in terms relevant to S&T Managers, Operational Customers, or potential Industry Partners by clicking on the appropriate buttons, below. The scope of our contractual efforts encompasses innovative research and development of advanced concepts, rigorous assessments and demonstrations of new technologies through engineering, and production of deliverable systems (hardware and software) for remote sensing applications. In pursuing these markets, Areté seeks opportunities that leverage our core competencies and provide our customers with significant performance improvements from existing systems.

As a complement to our technical efforts, Areté has a robust line of business in intelligence analysis and military strategic planning. In these efforts, Areté works with former flag and general officers, as well as former senior intelligence and technology officials to characterize future threats. Areté develops military strategies to meet those threats, and identify advanced technologies and capabilities required to execute future military operations.

Areté’s core capabilities are aligned with delivering outstanding value for our customers. In particular, Areté’s capability to integrate seamlessly across customer requirements, national security strategy, and scientific and engineering disciplines allows us to provide comprehensive and robust technical solutions. These solutions, rooted in an appropriate operational context, are for our nation's most challenging problems. Although every customer may not explicitly tap each of Areté’s core capabilities, all customers benefit from our multi-disciplinary approach.