Exclusive: Applied Intuition unveils programs to power autonomous drone swarms
Applied Intuition is unveiling new products that, according to one executive, will enable swarms of autonomous military ground vehicles, vessels and drones.
Why it matters: The Pentagon is bullish on smart machinery — but a lack of physical and digital infrastructure hamstrings the grand vision.
The latest: Applied's announcement Tuesday includes its Axion and Acuity product lines.
The former is a "developer cloud" made "specifically for the development of military-grade autonomy," Jason Brown, the company's general manager for defense, told Axios.
The latter, he said, "is the output of that."
Think of one as the brain and the other as the textbook from which it learns.
Together, they hope to account for the "hyper-dynamic realities of warfighting," said Brown, "and of the operating environments that our warfighters find themselves."
Programming autonomous weapons and machines to work on war-torn landscapes and on fast-changing battlefields is a huge challenge for militaries and their contractors. Speedy updates are a necessity.
Zoom in: The newly disclosed software has been used across the services, including aboard the X-62A VISTA, a modified F-16.
Context: Applied in December acquired EpiSci, which was involved with the VISTA and its dogfighting trials.
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