Echelon AI acquires UAS company Skyfire Consulting
NewsSeptember 12, 2024
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) specialists Skyfire Consulting has been acquired by Echelon AI, a company that offers autonomous and swarming artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for UASs.
The combined entity, to be known as SkyfireAI, will focus on integrating bleeding-edge AI with UAS technologies to revolutionize critical missions for global defense and public-safety applications, according to the companies' announcement.
The newly formed SkyrireAI will offer, the announcement says, much technical expertise in AI/machine learning (ML), swarming, applied physics, and uncrewed flight systems.
SkyfireAI positions itself as an SaaS [Software-as-a-Service] AI company that aims to capitalize on the rapid increase in UAS-based first-responder programs and the rise of defense applications for UAS platforms around the world.
