Autonomy software and aircraft for defence
shield.ai (opens in a new tab)Shield AI builds autonomy for defence, spanning both the software and the aircraft that run it. Its products include Hivemind, the autonomy software stack, the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technology. Building the autonomy and the airframe together is a deliberate choice: autonomous flight in contested conditions depends on how tightly the two are matched, which is difficult to achieve when the pieces come from different suppliers with different assumptions.