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February 13, 2026
Dan Taylor
technology editor
military embedded systems
Washington DC Shield AI has been selected as the mission autonomy provider for the U.S. Air Force Cooperative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program in support of Technology Maturity and Risk Reduction (TMRR) activities, the company announced in a statement.
Shield AI said in a statement that its Hivemind autonomy software has been integrated into Anduril Industries’ Fury aircraft (YFQ-44A) and is being used for system-level testing prior to flight demonstrations. The company describes Hivemind as mission autonomy software intended to perform sensing, decision-making and action functions related to pilot operations, the statement added.
Shield AI said in a statement that the software is Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA) compliant and designed to be platform independent. The company says it has demonstrated autonomy working with A-GRA on government and industry testing activities, including work involving General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Navy and Airbus, the statement added.
The Air Force said in a separate statement that this effort demonstrates that mission software can be decoupled from vehicle hardware, allowing for the integration of autonomous algorithms across A-GRA-compliant aircraft and reducing dependence on single-vendor solutions. The Air Force describes A-GRA in a statement as a modular open systems approach (MOSA) framework intended to speed the onboarding of new software from a broader range of industry partners.
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