Scout | Distributed AI for collaborative drone swarms to defend against enemy UAVs

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Distributed AI for collaborative drone swarms to defend against enemy UAVs

This opportunity supports development and integration of distributed AI that can command and control multiple drones working together to defend an area against a larger enemy swarm. The AI must work with existing onboard autonomy and sensing systems and avoid centralized control by using a decentralized approach. Funded work focuses on enabling effective multi-agent coordination under threat.<…

Source

Agency: U.S. Department of Defense

Program: SBIR

Phase: PHASE I

Phase: Phase II

Phase: Phase SPII

Dates

Topic Opens: July 22, 2026

Topic Closes: August 19, 2026

Eligibility

industry:defense

Keywords

distributed ai

multi-agent control

uav swarms

counter swarm

decentralized command

autonomy integration

swarm defense

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