Technology Development & Software · Founded 2006

We build software that solves real problems.

The Longbow Group is an American technology company with deep roots in Aerospace, Airspace and Autonomy. We apply artificial intelligence to challenges that exist outside the screen — where the problem is physical, the constraints are real, and the result has to work the first time.

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Where we work

Three domains, one discipline.

Our work sits where aircraft, airspace and autonomous systems meet — three fields that share one requirement: it has to be right the first time.

Aerospace

Decades inside aircraft development, certification and operations — the engineering discipline that comes from work where the standard is airworthiness.

Airspace

How aircraft are managed, separated and cleared to fly. Deep familiarity with the systems, the agencies and the agreements that govern shared airspace.

Autonomy

Systems that sense, decide and act — built so a person stays accountable for the decision, and so the reasoning behind it can be reviewed afterwards.

What we do

Technology development

We take a problem from concept through prototype to a system that runs every day — owning the engineering end to end rather than handing over a specification.

Software engineering

Software built to be operated, not just shipped: reliable under load, observable when something goes wrong, and maintainable years after the first release.

Applied AI

We use AI where it earns its place — measured against a real outcome, with a person accountable for the decision it informs.

Years building

Founded in 2006, The Longbow Group has spent two decades in and around aviation — long enough to know which problems are worth solving, and what it takes to make a system people will trust with real operations.

Leadership

Marco Sterk

Chief Executive Officer

Marco Sterk is an aerospace engineer, entrepreneur and inventor with more than thirty years in commercial aviation, spanning aircraft development and certification, international aviation consulting, and the design and operation of unmanned systems.

As CEO he sets the company's vision, strategy and technical direction, and is a long-standing advocate for what advanced aviation can do for local economies — new companies, a skilled workforce, and high-technology jobs in the communities where the work is done.

John P. Murray

Chief Operating Officer

John P. Murray is a subject-matter expert in airspace and air traffic management, with a career spanning two decades of military service, senior academic leadership and international aviation operations.

That includes work at the level where airspace policy is negotiated between agencies and across borders. As Chief Operating Officer he leads the company's operations, with particular focus on the research and workforce development that autonomous aviation will depend on.

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Tell us about the problem. If we are the right people to solve it, we will say so — and if we are not, we will say that too.

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