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Read analysis →Every company in the autonomous systems stack - OAS subsidiaries and key competitors.
Cyberhawk is a critical-infrastructure intelligence company providing drone-based inspection, visual data management, and AI-enabled asset analytics through its iHawk platform for utility, energy, and industrial customers worldwide.
ANELLO Photonics develops silicon-photonics optical-gyroscope inertial navigation systems for precise positioning in GPS-denied environments.
Auterion develops an open, PX4-based operating system and software stack for autonomous drones and robotic vehicles across enterprise and defense.
Castelion mass-produces hypersonic weapons, including the Mach 5-plus Blackbeard missile, for the U.S. military.
Firestorm Labs builds 3D-printed modular UAS (the Tempest line) and the xCell containerized field-deployable drone factory for ISR, EW, and strike.
Forterra builds full-stack autonomy (AutoDrive) that lets ground vehicles operate driverlessly off-road for U.S. defense ground-autonomy programs.
Greenroom Robotics builds maritime autonomy software (GAMA) that gives crewed and uncrewed surface vessels COLREGS-compliant autonomous navigation.
Helsing is Europe's leading sovereign defense-AI company. Its AI backbone spans domains: land (Altra ISR/targeting), air (Centaur AI fighter-pilot, the CA-1 Europa autonomous combat aircraft, and Eurofighter electronic-warfare AI), underwater (Lura AI with SG-1 Fathom autonomous submarine-hunting gliders), and space (the KIRK joint venture with OHB for tactical targeting). Privately held, multi-billion-euro valuation.
Kodiak builds the Kodiak Driver autonomous-vehicle system for commercial freight and driverless military ground vehicles.
Mach Industries is a vertically integrated maker of unmanned strike and defense systems, including the Viper VTOL UAV and Stratos surveillance platform.
Neros designs and mass-produces American-made FPV attack drones and loitering munitions for U.S. and allied forces.
Overland AI builds autonomous uncrewed ground vehicles and the OverDrive autonomy software stack for off-road military operations.
Quantum Systems designs and manufactures electric VTOL fixed-wing reconnaissance and surveillance UAVs for defense and commercial use.
Reliable Robotics builds an FAA-certifiable autonomy system that retrofits aircraft for fully automated, remotely-supervised flight.
Skyryse builds SkyOS, a universal flight operating system that automates takeoff, hover, landing, and emergency procedures for any aircraft.
Wingcopter builds fixed-wing eVTOL delivery drones for medical supply chains and last-mile logistics.
Allen Control Systems builds the Bullfrog autonomous robotic gun system that detects, tracks, and defeats drones across the full counter-UAS kill chain.
Applied Intuition builds autonomy software — simulation, validation, tooling and a full autonomy stack — spanning automotive (autonomous vehicles/ADAS) and, increasingly, defense. Its 2025 EpiSci acquisition extended it to all-domain national-security autonomy (air, land, sea, space), backed by major DoD contracts (a $171M CDAO production contract and a $249M Army enterprise BPA). Privately held, ~$15B valuation.
CHAOS Industries develops Coherent Distributed Networks technology that enhances sensing, detection, and communication for defense and critical industries.
CX2 builds AI-enabled electronic warfare hardware and software that detect, disrupt, and destroy RF threats across land, air, sea, and space.
Epirus develops solid-state high-power microwave directed-energy systems, led by its Leonidas platform, for counter-drone and counter-electronics defense.
HavocAI builds low-cost autonomous surface vessels and collaborative maritime autonomy software for defense and commercial naval operations.
Saronic builds AI-enabled autonomous surface vessels for maritime security, reconnaissance, logistics, and payload delivery for naval and defense customers.
Vannevar Labs builds AI-powered software for national security and defense intelligence, including foreign-language processing and non-traditional data collection.
How autonomous systems products connect at the protocol and architecture level.
Roboteam's MTGR (Micro Tactical Ground Robot) — a man-portable backpack-class throwable / wheeled UGV — is paired with the Airobotics Airbase aerial system under OAS's multi-domain stack. MTGR provides indoor / urban / confined-space ISR; Airbase provides outdoor / area ISR.
View integration →Roboteam's TIGR (Transportable Interoperable Ground Robot) is paired with the Airobotics Airbase / Optimus aerial platform under Ondas Autonomous Systems' multi-domain architecture. Ground robot extends sensor coverage into denied / contested terrain while the aerial Optimus provides overwatch and wide-area ISR.
View integration →Roboteam's Probot — a larger logistics / load-carrier UGV class — pairs with the Airobotics Airbase / Optimus aerial system under OAS. Probot can serve as a forward sensor + supply node that the Optimus drone covers from above.
View integration →Mistral Inc.'s Ground Diligence System (its long-running US DoD perimeter-security product line) is paired with the Airobotics Airbase aerial monitoring platform under Ondas Autonomous Systems. Mistral provides the US-side market access + integration; Airobotics provides the autonomous aerial sensor.
View integration →Two complementary FAA approvals stack together. American Robotics holds the first-ever FAA BVLOS waiver permitting fully automated Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight operations without on-site pilots or visual observers (originally granted January 2021 for the Scout System, extended to the Optimus System after the Airobotics → Ondas → American Robotics consolidation). The Optimus aircraft itself holds its own FAA Type Certification. Together they enable a single dock-to-dock commercial flight with no human at the take-off site. A January 2025 follow-on waiver extends operations over people and moving vehicles from a remote operations center.
View integration →Announced March 12, 2026 as a joint Palantir × Ondas × World View partnership. Three named program work-streams are in progress: Warp Speed (Palantir supply-chain / manufacturing data layer connecting Ondas / World View production), AI Flight Director (Palantir mission planning, telemetry, and atmospheric modeling for Stratollite operations), and SkyWeaver (onboard edge-AI compute running on the Stratollite for inference in degraded-connectivity / contested environments). Per the press release, broader portfolio-wide integration is "expected to begin Q4 2026."
View integration →Two-layer counter-UAS architecture announced as part of the November 2025 Ondas / Sentrycs acquisition: Sentrycs CoRF (Cyber-over-RF) detects and classifies the hostile drone via RF protocol analysis and can take over its control link (soft-kill); Iron Drone Raider provides the kinetic interceptor with a net-and-parachute capture mechanism (hard-kill). Both products run under the Ondas Autonomous Systems C-UAS stack. Public materials describe a System-of-Systems integration but have not specified the underlying tasking protocol.
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