SAN DIEGO, California. L3Harris Technologies licensed Shield AI’s Tracker Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (C-UAS) software for integration with its VAMPIRE counter-drone platform, the company announced in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan. Shield AI and Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated a coordinated search mission involving three Mighty Hornet III uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) controlled by artificial intelligence (AI), the company announced in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan. Shield AI and Thunder Tiger demonstrated Hivemind autonomy software aboard two uncrewed surface vessels during a coordinated maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Shield AI completed its acquisition of Aechelon Technology, a company focused on simulation, physics-based sensor modeling, and synthetic environment technologies, the company announced in a statement.

ATHENS, Greece. Shield AI signed a procurement agreement with the Hellenic Army to provide additional V-BAT vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) for maritime domain awareness missions across the Aegean Sea, the company announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. The head of Shield AI says that operating in GPS-denied environments remains a top challenge for the autonomous military systems industry, arguing that the vast majority of autonomous systems on the market cannot function in the communications-jammed environments that define modern battlefields.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Shield AI has completed subscale and full-scale testing of the GE Aerospace F110-GE-129 engine adapted for vertical flight application on its X-BAT autonomous combat drone, a company executive said at the Sea-Air-Space exposition here, with prototype aircraft expected this summer.