Encode and Decide

Thesis
Autonomous warfare is changing the economics of information and decisions. Sensors will multiply, networks will expand, and data will move at unprecedented speed. The challenge will no longer be access to information, but the ability to make sense of it. The decisive question is no longer who sees more, but who sees clearly. In a world flooded with signals, advantage belongs to the side that can turn noise into insight and decisions before its adversary can do the same.

Thalamus V1

Every sensor sees a fragment. Our models assemble them into one picture. Today that picture lays every cooperative aircraft and drone, and live incidents, over the map of the infrastructure it protects — a track becomes a question of what it is approaching. Optical, acoustic, RF and radar will feed the same picture, and so will weather, terrain and populated areas: what the conditions allow, and what lies beneath.

DATA SOURCESLive reports from cooperative aircraft and drones, live incident data
REFERENCEMaps of critical infrastructure and protected assets
OUTPUT

AI-driven situational awareness map

SACCADE v1

When an attack arrives in numbers, the order in which it is met decides the outcome. SACCADE will set that order. It will return a sequence the effectors can work down, inside the engagement window.

PLEXUS v1

PLEXUS is a decision-support system that holds the fight and the supply chain in one model. It will weigh what is in the field, what is in stock, what is being built and what is coming, and propose where the next unit goes.

INPUTSSituational picture and engagement sequence from the detection layer; consumption, stock and build state from the production network
OUTPUT

Proposed commitments and production priorities, with the trade shown.

CONTROL

Recommendation to a human decision-maker

REFLEX V1

REFLEX is the software that runs on every swarm node. It turns many nodes into a swarm. It is where the swarm's intelligence sits. The swarm will work out the tactic that fits the formation in front of it — from one swarm node per object to the whole swarm on one — and will change it while the engagement runs. Because it is software, new tactics will reach the swarm faster than any airframe can be redesigned.

TRACT Mk 1

TRACT is a delay-tolerant, bandwidth-frugal satellite control method with intelligence at both ends of the link. It will command many small units as one, anywhere on the planet, from anywhere on the planet. It will run over existing European satellite constellations, will get stronger with every satellite that joins one, and is built for a sovereign European constellation of its own. Patent pending.

OPERATING ENVELOPELink budgets measured in bytes, not megabits; latency in seconds, not milliseconds; interruption as the normal case
CONTROL RATIO

Many units per operator

TRANSPORT

Existing low-data-rate satellite constellations, no dedicated ground infrastructure in theatre