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Andrew “Geeky” Hawkes knows what it takes to bring a new combat aircraft into service. As one of the first-ever Royal Air Force pilots to train and fight on the Eurofighter Typhoon, he helped introduce cutting-edge capabilities and develop tactics fo...
LONDON (October 29, 2026) — Shield today announced an agreement with Leonardo under which Leonardo will use Shield’s Hivemind software to further develop autonomy capabilities for integration onto Proteus, Leonardo’s autonomous uncrewed rotorcraft. T...
DOHA, Qatar (October 28, 2026) – Shield AI, a leader in AI-powered mission autonomy, and Barzan Holdings Joint Venture RBAT signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Milipol Qatar 2026 to explore the integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy s...
Following our blog on Autonomy Factories, this is the second in our series exploring autonomy....
A training center has been running its simulator suite for eighteen months. Now operators are preparing for a mission in a new region. The intelligence office has fresh terrain and threat data, some of it too sensitive to leave the building....
As an island nation, maritime awareness is essential to Taiwan’s national security. Its coastline stretches more than 1,500 kilometers across the main island and outlying islands, so keeping watch over the surrounding waters requires vessels, sensors...
Hivemind Enterprise helped Honeywell cut an estimated 54-week autonomy-development effort to six weeks before progressing to multi-aircraft teaming...
TAIPEI (October 13, 2026) – Defense-tech company Shield AI announced the first delivery of its V-BAT to the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration (CGA) with its partner Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). Over the coming months, twelve V...
WARSAW, Poland – October 12, 2026 – GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE), Shield AI and Poland’s Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze Nr 2 S.A. (WZL-2) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) support for F110 engine that...
$150 million agreement modification supports Defense Exportability Features and is matched by $150 million in Shield AI capital...
ATHENS (October 8, 2026) – In Athens, Shield AI and GEK TERNA, Greece’s largest investor in critical infrastructure assets, signed a strategic agreement to jointly pursue parts production, aircraft integration and long-term sustainment for X-BAT in G...
PERTH (LAND FORCES) / MELBOURNE / CANBERRA, Australia (October 6th, 2026) – Shield AI and Innovaero Technologies Ltd (ASX:INN), an Australian defence and aerospace technology and manufacturing company specialising in precision loitering munition syst...
Building and testing the aircraft in the two states is projected to support about 9,800 American jobs by the early 2030s and add roughly $78 billion to the Newton and Seattle economies through 2046....
PORTSMOUTH, U.K. (September 28, 2026) – Shield AI, the defense-tech company building the world’s best AI pilots and next-generation aircraft, and Kraken Technology Group Ltd., a world-leading autonomous maritime company, announced today the successfu...
After spending 25 years in defense acquisition, last month marked one year since I joined Shield AI. It feels like an appropriate time to reflect on our work on the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, what that work reveals ...
On February 28, 2026, a Shahed-type one-way attack drone struck a radome at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet. No fatalities were reported, but the strike demonstrated how a relatively inexpensive UAS can damage hig...
This blog is part of a series exploring the technologies and principles shaping the future of simulation....