Solving today’s hard problems. Finding tomorrow’s.

Uncharted Frontier Services leads multidisciplinary R&D teams on high-risk, high-reward technology programs aimed at the U.S. government’s most challenging problems.

Last-mile transition

Born out of Uncharted Labs, Frontier Services provides the leadership, people, capabilities, and access to move research technology into sensitive operational environments with restricted data. We translate between technical experts, end users, and decision makers to ground our innovative ideas in real world constraints. Together, we bring more than 25 years of experience in technology R&D and operational transition.

Problem discovery & program development

We like building impactful solutions, but we also like thinking about the hard problems that need the solutions. We work with subject matter experts at the frontier of their domains to uncover the hard, unsolved problems of today and those likely to emerge five and ten years out. We shape these into new R&D programs where a better-defined problem leads to a better solution.

How We Work

We are passionate about solving today’s hard problems, but we are always thinking ahead to the grand challenges of tomorrow so we stay ahead of them instead of reacting to them. Our work is a loop, with transition partners involved from problem definition through technology transition.

1Discover the problems

We talk to experts at the frontier of their domains to understand what the next generation of hard, unsolved problems is going to be. We then work with former ARPA research program managers to turn these into right-sized, ARPA-hard research program concepts.

2Perform the research

We team with Uncharted Labs as performers on the research programs that we helped define, building new relationships and partnerships along the way that broaden our capabilities and our perspective.

3Deliver the last mile

We carry technology that we develop through the research programs into operation, including transition into sensitive environments.

4Find the next frontier

Our research and our operational transitions give us grounded insight into where the problem frontier is moving. Those insights feed the next round of problem discovery, and the loop begins again.

Leadership

Amanda Towler

Chief Executive Officer

Amanda has over a decade of experience running a business and leading top-caliber technical teams on high-risk R&D programs. She has led many multi-year, multimillion-dollar projects across a wide range of domains, from cybersecurity and dark-web crime to AI and space exploration.

Lee Donahue

Director of Strategy

Lee is a former FBI analyst with a decade-long track record of turning complex research into real-world applications. She leads development strategy and bridges technical teams and end users across problem domains such as counter-human trafficking, financial crimes, clinical trials, and defense information operations.