UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía has signed a strategic integration partnership with U.S. defense technology company Shield AI to help European customers field more capable autonomous aircraft faster and with less integration risk.
The partnership focuses on integrating Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software with UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía systems.
The collaboration centers on validating compatibility between UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía’s VECTOR autopilots and Mission Control Computer and Shield AI’s platform-agnostic autonomy software, Hivemind. The companies have already completed interoperability testing with strong results, confirming that Hivemind can be configured to execute missions on platforms equipped with UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía flight-control systems.
Chris Brinkley, Vice President and Head of Europe and Africa at Shield AI, commented, “European customers require autonomous systems that meet rigorous standards for reliability, integration, and operational performance. UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía brings deep GNC expertise and a strong platform footprint across the continent. This is about making sure Hivemind works seamlessly on the systems our customers are already flying.”
Hivemind is Shield AI’s highly modular, platform-agnostic autonomy software that enables unmanned systems to sense, decide, and act. Unlike traditional autopilots that cannot deviate from preplanned routes, Hivemind dynamically reroutes mission plans, responds to unexpected conditions, avoids obstacles, and executes complex tasks safely and effectively.
Luis Furnells, Chairman and CEO of Grupo Oesía, added, “Shield AI Hivemind brings proven mission autonomy that complements our open-architecture ecosystem. We look forward to building on our interoperability work to deliver greater capability to the platforms and programs that rely on our systems.”
Future phases are expected to expand the autonomy envelope across additional platform families integrating the UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía portfolio of systems.
