USA
Palladyne's drone-swarm software wins its first funded Army contracts
A system that lets one soldier fly a mixed drone swarm moves from demonstration to paid Army field validation, a step toward a program of record.
Palladyne AI's SwarmOS is a decentralized edge-autonomy software stack built to let one operator command a mixed swarm of drones from different manufacturers without a cloud link — run inside the US Army's NGC2 prototype at Ivy Mass 2026, now under Army and AFRL validation contracts.
A system that lets one soldier fly a mixed drone swarm moves from demonstration to paid Army field validation, a step toward a program of record.
A single operator flew a mixed swarm of surveillance drones and a strike drone through the Army's prototype command system, in jammed comms with no cloud link, the company said.
Palladyne AI signed an MoU for up-to-10-year exclusive US rights to make and market IAI's combat-proven Harpy, Harop and Mini-Harpy loitering munitions, onshoring them as the Pentagon scales munition buys.