Insights
Perspectives on
defence autonomy.
Longer pieces on the questions we spend our time thinking about. These are arguments rather than announcements — our view of where autonomy is going, what is genuinely hard about it, and what we think the field gets wrong.
Why We Publish
Positions, openly held.
Defence technology has a habit of being discussed either in marketing language or not at all. We think there is room for a third register: writing plainly about hard problems, including the parts we have not solved.
Nothing here contains specifications, performance figures or operational detail — that is shared privately, under appropriate terms. What we can do publicly is set out how we think. If you disagree with any of it, we would genuinely like to hear why.
The Library
Long-form
perspectives.
The autonomy decade
Why the next ten years of defence capability will be decided in software rather than airframes.
02Mass, reimagined
What very small, very numerous autonomous systems change about the economics of capability.
03Navigating without the sky
Satellite positioning is the first thing an adversary takes away. What replaces it.
04The case for thinking at the edge
Why defence autonomy cannot depend on a link to a data centre, and what that costs to engineer.
05Command, not control
What it actually means to keep a human in command of an autonomous system.
06The cost curve problem
Counter-UAS is an economics problem before it is a technical one.
07The attention problem
Surveillance fails not for lack of sensors but for lack of attention. Autonomy changes that equation.
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We would rather be argued with than agreed with politely. Tell us where you think we're wrong.