AeroVironment, Inc. and Applied Intuition, Inc., a global player in physical AI and collaborative autonomy software, have announced a strategic teaming agreement to advance unmanned teaming capabilities for the United States Military and its allies.
Under the agreement, Applied Intuition’s Acuity ISR/Strike software will be integrated into AV’s Mayhem 10 launched effects system, enabling autonomous collaborative hunter-killer and swarm operations in contested environments. Under the supervision of a single operator, the integrated solution will enable teams of Mayhem 10 to autonomously find, fix, track, target, and engage targets at the tactical edge.
The collaboration directly supports the U.S. Army’s Launched Effects program and is designed to scale across short, medium, and long range launched effects requirements and displays AV’s commitment to open architecture.
“Mayhem 10 isn’t just a munition. It’s an architecture,”
said Brian Young, senior vice president of loitering munitions at AV.
“We built it as an open, modular system from the beginning. That allows us to integrate multiple payloads like EO/IR sensors, electronic warfare packages, communications relays, and lethal effects onto a single platform. It also allows us to bring in third-party software and autonomy much more quickly, treating capability more like an application than a fixed feature set.”
By leveraging a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), Mayhem 10 enables integration with third-party autonomy solutions, demonstrating the platform’s flexible, vendor-agnostic architecture and commitment to interoperability across the launched effects ecosystem.
“Modern warfare demands trusted systems that can think, coordinate, and adapt faster than the adversary,”
said Jason Brown, general manager of Applied Intuition.
“Our Acuity ISR/Strike software brings collaborative autonomy to Mayhem 10, rapidly delivering next-generation capabilities through platform-agnostic software with operator oversight. Acuity ISR/Strike enables intelligent swarms that share targeting data in real time, dynamically adjust to threats, and execute missions that would be impossible for individual platforms.”
During a recent demonstration, the companies validated the integration by executing collaborative autonomy behaviours, demonstrating how multiple Mayhem 10 launched effects systems can synchronize, swarm and adapt to different threats.
The demonstration validated months of integration efforts conducted across multiple locations using AV’s Autonomy Interface Control Document (ICD).
Sources: Applied Intuition; AV