Code Metal, the company focused on speeding up the path from code to metal with provable AI, today announced it has acquired Signal Processing Technologies, Inc. (SPT) and launched a new Advanced RF Group.
The move expands Code Metal’s platform into advanced communications, spectrum awareness, and digital signal processing, all of which are becoming increasingly important for commercial telecom, autonomy, industrial infrastructure, and next-generation defense systems.
SPT founders Joe Farkas and Dr. Brandon Hombs will join Code Metal to lead the new group. Founded in 2019, SPT brings strong expertise in signal processing, software-defined radio, advanced communications, spectrum sensing, RF machine learning, and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.
This is Code Metal’s first acquisition, and it comes during a period of rapid expansion. Earlier this year, the company raised $125 million in Series B funding at a $1.25 billion post-money valuation, reflecting growing demand from enterprise and government customers looking to accelerate mission-critical development and deployment. Its platform is already used by organizations including the U.S. Air Force, RTX, Toshiba, and L3Harris.
The electromagnetic spectrum is quickly becoming one of the most contested areas in modern technology. Connected vehicles, satellite networks, 5G and 6G infrastructure, industrial IoT, and autonomous systems all depend on the ability to sense, communicate, navigate, and coordinate in crowded and complex RF environments. The companies that can do that reliably, at scale, and at speed will shape the next generation of connected systems.
At the end of the day, all of this runs on silicon. “RF is where software meets hardware,” Morales said. “The algorithms behind communications, sensing, navigation, and autonomy have to run on real devices like CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs, and the next generation of semiconductor platforms.
Expanding into RF takes us deeper into the silicon layer and strengthens our ability to move our customers’ capabilities from code to deployment, no matter what industry they serve.”
The new Advanced RF Group will extend Code Metal’s platform across several areas, including advanced communications and software-defined radio, spectrum awareness and sensing, RF machine learning, positioning, navigation, and timing, autonomous sensing systems, commercial and industrial wireless infrastructure, resilient contested-spectrum operations, and next-generation aerospace and defense platforms.
The acquisition reflects the company’s belief that the future of engineering will be shaped by the convergence of AI, software, communications, semiconductors, and hardware. In that future, the winners will be the organizations that can move fastest from concept to deployed capability across every layer of the stack.
Leadership Comment
“As AI accelerates software creation, the hard problem is no longer writing code — it’s turning that code into trusted systems running on the satellites, vehicles, communications networks, and critical infrastructure we depend on every day,” said Peter Morales, Founder and CEO of Code Metal. “Increasingly, those systems live or die by how well they operate across the electromagnetic spectrum. Acquiring SPT lets us solve that problem in one of the most consequential technology domains of the coming decade.”
“We’re thrilled to welcome Joe, Brandon, and the SPT team,” said Morales. “This strengthens our ability to help customers build the next generation of intelligent, spectrum-aware systems for mission-critical industries, from code to metal. We’re just getting started.”
“What’s exciting about Code Metal’s technology is that it changes the speed and scale at which advanced engineering can happen,” said Dr. Brandon Hombs, Co-Founder of SPT. “In RF, the hardest work is not just designing a great signal-processing algorithm, it’s proving that it works, optimizing it for the right hardware, and getting it deployed reliably across real systems. Code Metal gives us a way to accelerate that entire path from algorithm to implementation. That is exactly what this domain needs as signal processing, AI, and advanced semiconductors converge.”
For SPT, the acquisition pairs hard-won domain expertise with a platform built to scale it. “We’ve spent years solving some of the toughest problems in the spectrum domain for defense and commercial customers,” said Joe Farkas, Co-Founder of SPT. “Code Metal gives us a way to deliver that expertise as a repeatable, provable engineering capability rather than a series of one-off projects. That’s a step change for the customers we serve.”
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