SAN
DIEGO, Aug. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Shield AI,
Inc., the technology company building the world's best AI pilot,
completed a major milestone on the path towards its overarching
goal of providing autonomy for the world by successfully
demonstrating its first-ever multi-jet autonomy flights on two
Kratos MQM-178 Firejets.
The flight tests featured two autonomous agents piloted by
Shield AI's 'Hivemind' AI Pilot. These agents teamed up to perform
coordinated maneuvers, demonstrating operationally relevant
collaborative behaviors. This demonstration highlighted the
capabilities of future unmanned jets and drones, with all computing
executed on board and in-air agent communication seamlessly
integrated.
"In the next decade, AI pilots will command and maneuver all
unmanned systems, enabling the US and our allies to deploy millions
of intelligent, resilient drones," said Brandon Tseng, Shield AI's President, Co-founder
and a former Navy SEAL. "These Firejet flight tests represent a key
milestone on our journey to bring autonomy to the world. What's
awesome is that the algorithms are not limited to the number of
aircraft. For test objectives and budgetary reasons, we limited the
number of Firejets to two, but it could have been 4, 8, 16, 32, and
so on."
This builds upon multiple AI-piloted Firejet flight tests
completed earlier this year, which marked the sixth aircraft
to be flown by Shield AI's Hivemind AI Pilot. In June, the team
completed its inaugural Live Virtual Constructive (LVC)
integration, which bridges live platforms with virtual environments
and enables dynamic interactions across different domains.
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology
company whose mission is to protect service members and civilians
with intelligent systems. In pursuit of this mission, Shield AI is
building the world's best AI pilot. Its AI pilot, Hivemind, has
flown jets (F-16; MQM-178 Firejet), a vertical takeoff and landing
drone (MQ-35 V-BAT), and three quadcopters (Nova, Nova 2,
iPRD). The company has offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington
DC and abroad. Shield AI's products and people are currently
in the field actively supporting operations with the U.S.
Department of Defense and U.S. allies. For more information, visit
www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X and
Instagram.
About Kratos Defense & Security Solutions,
Inc.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions,
Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) is a technology, products, system and
software company addressing the defense, national security, and
commercial markets. Kratos makes true internally funded research,
development, capital and other investments, to rapidly develop,
produce and field solutions that address our customers' mission
critical needs and requirements. At Kratos, affordability is a
technology, and we seek to utilize proven, leading-edge approaches
and technology, not unproven bleeding edge approaches or
technology, with Kratos' approach designed to reduce cost, schedule
and risk, enabling us to be first to market with cost effective
solutions. We believe that Kratos is known as an innovative
disruptive change agent in the industry, a company that is an
expert in designing products and systems up front for successful
rapid, large quantity, low-cost future manufacturing which is a
value add competitive differentiator for our large traditional
prime system integrator partners and also to our government and
commercial customers. Kratos intends to pursue program and
contract opportunities as the prime or lead contractor when we
believe that our probability of win (PWin) is high and any
investment required by Kratos is within our capital resource
comfort level. We intend to partner and team with a large,
traditional system integrator when our assessment of PWin is
greater or required investment is beyond Kratos comfort level.
Kratos primary business areas include virtualized ground systems
for satellites and space vehicles including software for command
& control (C2) and telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C),
jet powered unmanned aerial drone systems, hypersonic vehicles and
rocket systems, propulsion systems for drones, missiles, loitering
munitions, supersonic systems, space craft and launch systems,
C5ISR and microwave electronic products for missile, radar, missile
defense, space, satellite, counter UAS, directed energy,
communication and other systems, and virtual & augmented
reality training systems for the warfighter. For more information,
visit www.KratosDefense.com.
Media Contacts:
Lily Hinz, Media@shield.ai
Claire Burghoff,
claire.burghoff@kratosdefense.com
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