Resilience & Continuity
Agentic plan assessment, autonomous exercises and gap analysis against standards like NIST SP 800-34.
Research → Capability → Deployment
Force multipliers for global challenges.
DeLuca Industries builds software, systems and hardware for the problems that cost lives, money and time at scale. Every capability starts as research inside Quantum Edge Labs. The ones that multiply what a team can do are hardened and fielded here.
- Programs
- 10ACTIVE
- Domains
- 06CORE
- Pipeline
- 04STAGES
- Posture
- OPENBY DEFAULT
Quantum Edge Labs
From lab bench to field deployment.
Quantum Edge Labs is the research arm. It takes on competition briefs, grant challenges and unsolved field problems. Ideas that prove they can multiply human capability move through four gates before they carry the DeLuca Industries name.
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Quantum Edge Labs
Research
Open problems from defense, humanitarian and resilience challenges. Concepts are generated, modeled and stress-tested on paper first.
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Quantum Edge Labs
Prototype
Parametric hardware, working mobile builds and AI pipelines. Each prototype must beat the expensive, closed incumbent on cost or access.
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DeLuca Industries
Harden
Security, compliance and reliability engineering. Data handling is designed for the sensitive environments these tools operate in.
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DeLuca Industries
Field
Deployed to responders, investigators, enterprises and communities, as SaaS, open hardware or an open platform anyone can build on.
Capability domains
Six fronts. One operating thesis.
Wherever a critical system is expensive, closed or out of reach, we build the open, affordable or automated alternative.
Crisis & Humanitarian
Field reporting and response tooling built for disaster zones, low bandwidth and high stakes.
Open Spectral Hardware
Phone-paired spectrometers on open designs, from counterfeit medicine screening to field chemistry.
Intelligence & OSINT
Offline-capable analysis, investigative tooling and open-source intelligence that stays in the analyst's hands.
Autonomous Systems
Underwater swarm robotics and sensor networks that extend reach where people can't safely go.
Applied AI Platforms
RAG architectures, agentic workflows and transcription pipelines that turn hours of expert work into minutes.
Program manifest
Active programs.
Status reflects where each program sits in the pipeline. Fielded systems are available now. Development programs are taking early partners.
DE-01 · ResilienceIn development
Crucible
An AI resilience platform that assesses disaster recovery, continuity and crisis plans against industry standards, then runs tabletop and red-team exercises, fully autonomous or with people in the loop. Sensitive plans are purged when the review ends.
DE-02 · SpectralIn development
Spectral Commons
An open spectroscopy platform: a 3D-printed sensor that pairs with any phone, plus the software to read it. Open to anyone whose problem can be solved with a spectrum.
DE-03 · SpectralIn development
OpenRx Guardian
A counterfeit medicine detection module on Spectral Commons, including marker-peak detection for fentanyl contamination. Built for pharmacies, clinics and field teams without a lab.
DE-04 · Applied AIFielded
PodScript
An AI scripting and production suite for podcasters, from outline to teleprompter to export. Live with paid subscriptions.
QEL-05 · AutonomyLabs research
PiranhaNet
Underwater swarm robotics for search, survey and recovery. Details remain restricted while research continues.
QEL-06 · CrisisLabs research
RAPIDA Field
Rapid crisis damage reporting from the ground, with an analyst dashboard that turns scattered field reports into a common operating picture.
QEL-07 · IntelligenceLabs research
TEARDOWN
An offline security intelligence tool that runs entirely on the analyst's machine. No cloud dependency and no data leaving the room.
QEL-08 · ClimateLabs research
EDGE
Wearable climate sensors that measure the conditions people actually experience, not the reading from the nearest weather station.
QEL-09 · DefenseLabs research
WARGRAM
Dual-channel capture and transcription for military wargames, so every decision and its rationale is on the record for the after-action review.
QEL-10 · WaterLabs research
Rooftop Water Systems
Shingle-integrated rainwater collection and monitoring concepts, developed for global water-access innovation challenges.
Doctrine
Find the system that is expensive, closed or out of reach. Build the one that isn't.
Multiply
One operator, ten times the reach. We only ship what measurably extends what a person or team can do.
Open
Open by default. Open hardware and open platforms wherever openness serves the mission and the people it protects.
Field-first
Built for the worst day. Low bandwidth, offline operation and degraded conditions are design inputs, not edge cases.
Trust
Sensitive data stays sensitive. Keep only what the mission needs, for only as long as it needs it.
Leadership
Military discipline, technical depth and an entrepreneur's bias for shipping.
Mark DeLuca has spent his career in the moments when systems fail: disaster recovery, continuity planning and crisis response. He founded DeLuca Industries to put the tools he wished existed into the hands of the people doing that work.
Quantum Edge Labs is where those tools begin. Mark runs commercial products, research competitions and public-interest projects in parallel, on the principle that a breakthrough in one domain is often the missing piece in another.
- Service
- U.S. Marine Corps veteran
- Discipline
- IT disaster recovery, business continuity, crisis management
- Academic
- Board member, MIT Crisis Management & Resiliency Program
- Recognition
- 2023 NASA research award
- Field work
- UNDP collaboration; sonar and dive search operations
Engage
Bring us the hard problem.
Partnerships, pilots, research collaborations and early access to programs in development. Tell us what you're up against and we'll respond within two business days.