At the DSEI 2025 defense exhibition in London, American shipbuilding corporation HII and technology company Shield AI announced a strategic partnership. The goal of the collaboration is to integrate Shield AIs advanced Hivemind autonomy software into HIIs unmanned platforms. Hivemind is an AI pilot that enables individual vehicles or groups of them ("swarms") to perform complex missions without communication or GPS. HII, in turn, is a manufacturer of maritime unmanned systems, including REMUS underwater vehicles. The partnership will equip HIIs surface and underwater drones with Shield AIs "brain," allowing them to operate collaboratively and autonomously in complex and contested environments. This is a significant step towards creating intelligent, cross-domain (water, air, land) autonomous systems for military tasks.
HII and Shield AI Announce Partnership for Cross-Domain Autonomy
