Code Metal, the company that accelerates the path from code to metal with provable AI, today announced its acquisition of Signal Processing Technologies, Inc. (SPT) and the launch of its new Advanced RF Group. The acquisition extends Code Metal’s platform into advanced communications, spectrum awareness, and digital signal processing — capabilities that underpin commercial telecommunications, autonomy, industrial infrastructure, and next-generation defense systems.
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SPT’s founders, Joe Farkas and Dr. Brandon Hombs, will join Code Metal to lead the Advanced RF Group. Founded in 2019, SPT brings deep expertise in signal processing, software-defined radio, advanced communications, spectrum sensing, RF machine learning, and Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT). Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
This is Code Metal’s first acquisition, and it follows a period of rapid growth. Earlier this year, the company raised $125 million in Series B financing at a $1.25 billion post-money valuation, reflecting demand from enterprise and government customers seeking to accelerate the development and deployment of mission-critical systems. Code Metal’s platform is trusted by organizations including the U.S. Air Force, RTX, Toshiba, and L3Harris.
“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.”
The electromagnetic spectrum is becoming one of the most contested domains in modern technology. Connected vehicles, satellite networks, 5G and 6G infrastructure, industrial IoT, and autonomous platforms all depend on the ability to sense, communicate, navigate, and coordinate in increasingly crowded and complex RF environments. The organizations that can do this reliably, at scale and at speed, will define the next generation of connected systems.
That work ultimately runs on silicon. “RF is where software meets hardware,” Morales added. “The algorithms behind communications, sensing, navigation, and autonomy have to execute on real devices, such as 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, whatever industry they’re in.”
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.”
“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.”
The Advanced RF Group extends Code Metal’s platform, including:
- Advanced communications and software-defined radio (SDR)
- Spectrum awareness and spectrum sensing
- RF machine learning
- Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)
- Autonomous sensing systems
- Commercial and industrial wireless infrastructure
- Resilient and contested-spectrum operations
- Next-generation aerospace and defense platforms
The acquisition reflects Code Metal’s view that the future of engineering will be defined by the convergence of AI, software, communications, semiconductors, and hardware, and that the organizations that win will be the ones that move fastest from concept to deployed capability across every layer of the stack.
“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.”
About Code Metal
Code Metal accelerates the path from code to metal with provable AI. Its platform translates, verifies, and optimizes software as it moves from high-level languages onto the specialized hardware it runs on — giving mission-critical industries a faster, verifiable path from software to deployed capability. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Boston, the company is backed by Accel, Salesforce Ventures, B Capital, and others, and is trusted by organizations including the U.S. Air Force, RTX, Toshiba, and L3Harris across defense, aerospace, automotive, semiconductor, and communications. Learn more at codemetal.ai.
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