This is like giving military drones a smart co‑pilot that can fly and make decisions by itself, so you don’t need a human constantly steering it or telling it what to do.
Enables high‑risk aerial missions (surveillance, strike, electronic warfare, logistics) to be flown autonomously on advanced platforms, reducing reliance on human pilots, increasing mission tempo, and allowing operations in environments that are too dangerous or complex for crewed aircraft.
Proprietary, battle-relevant autonomy stack (Hivemind) proven on multiple platforms, plus integration partnerships with advanced aerospace OEMs like Destinus that make the autonomy software embedded and sticky in future aerial systems.
Hybrid
Unknown
High (Custom Models/Infra)
Real-time onboard inference constraints (compute, power, and latency) and robustness/safety certification for fully autonomous missions across diverse aircraft and mission profiles.
Early Adopters
Combines Shield AI’s mature autonomy core (Hivemind) with Destinus’s advanced high-speed/aerospace platforms, allowing rapid fielding of AI-driven autonomy on next-generation aerial systems rather than just legacy drones.