Overview
Autonomous Systems
Modern missions increasingly depend on uncrewed systems and autonomous decision-making. STR develops mission-focused, operator-informed autonomy across the full spectrum of control, collaboration, and human-machine teaming, from strategic mission planning and battle management down to tactical control and coordination of uncrewed platforms. We build deployable capability at every level of autonomy, from operator assistance to full autonomy.
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Autonomy is a Hierarchy, not a Switch
Closing the loop at every timescale
We assemble a coherent picture from streams that don’t agree on time, resolution, or identity: RF, overhead imagery, communications intelligence, sensor networks, reports from human sources. We combine Bayesian estimation with learned models for data association and discrimination, and we link entities across graph structures where the identity of a node is itself uncertain.
Proving what a simulation cannot
Every simulation result is evidence of something, and knowing exactly what is the discipline. We build red agents that make simulated environments adversarial rather than convenient, then take the same software to the range to characterize robustness, correctness, and suitability—including the failure modes nobody wrote a test case for.
Coordinating platforms that can barely talk to each other
Coordination is easy with perfect communications and perfect sensing, and we never have either. We develop the distributed task allocation, dynamic replanning, and swarm coordination that hold up under limited bandwidth, latency, intermittent links, and an adversary that reacts to what the team just did—so a group of platforms behaves like a force rather than a collection.
Composing with what is already fielded
Autonomy that only runs on a purpose-built platform is a demonstration. We build to open architectures and community standards so our software composes with fielded and emerging systems, across missions spanning long-range strike, electronic warfare, ISR, defensive counter-air, and integrated air and missile defense.
Who Does this work
Research and Software Engineering on One Control Loop
Autonomy & C2 Engineers
who can design a coordination algorithm that works when the link drops and the threat reacts.
Autonomy Software Engineers
who can turn a researcher’s planner into code that meets a hard deadline every cycle, and are at the range when it runs.
Program Managers
who can tell what a simulation result is worth, and how much range time a real answer costs.
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