Organizations shaping AI

Helsing

Helsing is a European defense AI company headquartered in Munich founded by Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf, and Niklas Köhler. It develops AI software, strike drones, and surveillance systems for military applications.

National Security Council

The council advises the U.S. president on national security and foreign policy and coordinates those policies across federal departments and agencies. Its staff increasingly covers cybersecurity, emerging technology and artificial intelligence alongside traditional security issues.

Shield AI

Shield AI develops Hivemind, an autonomy stack designed to pilot military aircraft and drones without relying on GPS, communications, or a remote pilot.

Aiara is a Los Gatos, California-based SaaS company offering an AI and IoT platform for manufacturing operations, providing real-time shop-floor monitoring, job scheduling, and optimization tools for industries including aerospace, defense, and automotive.

UK government organisation that develops technologies for the national-security community, combining in-house engineering with collaboration across industry and academia.

RTX BBN Technologies is an advanced research organization known for building the ARPANET and the first networked email system. Its current work includes machine intelligence, speech and language technology, cybersecurity and systems for national security.

Scout AI

Scout AI develops Fury, a vision-language-action system that translates commanders' objectives into plans for coordinating autonomous ground and aerial vehicles. Its work focuses on adapting existing military robots to operate together with less manual control.

Maritime military service developing and deploying AI for decision support, human–machine teaming, and autonomous systems across surface, subsurface, and aviation operations.

Alta Ares

Develops autonomous defense systems for air defense and battlefield intelligence, combining counter-drone interceptors with edge-based visual detection, tracking, sensor fusion and mission-management software.

Defense-technology company founded by Palmer Luckey (founder of Oculus) and others. Builds AI-driven autonomous systems — drones, sensors, and counter-drone interceptors — unified by its Lattice command-and-control platform.

Develops mission-critical systems for government and industry, including guidance and navigation, intelligent autonomy, robotics, secure systems, and human–machine interaction for air, ground, undersea, and space operations.