System 02 · Precision Guidance
Accuracy is a humanitarian technology as much as a military one. A system that reaches exactly what it was directed at, and nothing else, is the difference between a proportionate action and an indiscriminate one. That is the engineering problem we work on.
The Case For Precision
Before guidance, hitting one specific point meant delivering a great many unguided munitions and accepting whatever else was within the error radius. Precision inverted that arithmetic: fewer effects, smaller warheads, less collateral damage, and a far greater chance that what was intended is what actually happens.
This is why we regard precision as an accountability technology. A commander can only be answerable for an outcome they could reasonably predict. Tightening the error radius is what makes prediction — and therefore responsibility — possible. Our work here is guidance and accountability engineering; a person authorises every action, always.
How Guidance Works
Guidance is not one technology but a chain of them, each covering the phase where the others are weakest. These are the publicly understood principles the field is built on.
An inertial measurement unit senses acceleration and rotation and integrates them into a position estimate. It needs nothing from the outside world — which makes it unjammable — but its error grows steadily with time, so it cannot work alone over long flights.
A satellite fix corrects inertial drift and holds accuracy roughly constant over distance. The weakness is the opposite of the INS: the signal is weak, and can be jammed or spoofed by an adversary.
Fusing the two covers both weaknesses. Satellite fixes bound the inertial drift; the inertial solution carries the system honestly through periods when satellite navigation is unavailable or untrustworthy.
The long phase where the system travels toward the area of interest, flying a planned trajectory on the coupled navigation solution and updating it as conditions change.
The final phase, where a seeker looks at the actual scene and refines aim onto the specific designated point rather than a set of coordinates — the step that separates good accuracy from precision.
The standard measure: the radius within which half of all deliveries fall. Every element of the chain contributes error, and the total is what CEP expresses.
Terminal Seekers
Coordinates can be slightly wrong, and things move. A terminal seeker resolves that by sensing the actual scene in the final phase. Each seeker type trades differently between weather, cost and the kind of designation required.
Our Work
We are an autonomy and guidance software company. Our contribution is the navigation, perception and decision layer — the same core that runs our unmanned aerial and tactical systems — applied to the accuracy chain.
Non-Negotiables
These are constraints on what we will build, not options a customer can configure away.
No system we build selects and engages on its own authority. Authorisation is human, explicitly and always.
The ability to stop or redirect is a first-class requirement, not a fallback.
A system unsure of its solution should decline rather than proceed.
Every decision recorded so an action can be examined and accounted for.
This page explains publicly documented guidance principles at a conceptual level. We do not publish designs, parameters, performance figures or any implementation detail. All work is under active research and development; nothing has been fielded. Engagements are subject to end-use and end-user assessment, sanctions and export-control screening — see security & compliance and human rights.
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