Edge & autonomous systems / active R&D

Autonomy where you cannot phone home.

An active research and development program in decentralized autonomy for defense and edge missions: swarms of small, verifiable agents that keep working when the link is gone. Governed the same way as everything else we ship, because the field is the last place to skip the audit trail.

Autonomy R&D / current program in development

Program facts

StackRust · WebAssembly micro-agents
ArchitectureDecentralized, no single point of failure
DomainsAirborne, undersea, contested edge
PipelineAFWERX SBIR proposal in review
PartnerFuse Integration, satcom feasibility

Design constraints

Link-loss tolerant Attritable-platform sized Verifiable agents Self-improving within bounds Traced decisions Bounded tasking

Publications

VannOS white paper Swarm architecture white paper 5G/6G edge briefing
// SBIR and research proposals in review; white papers available on request unclassified

The program

Four lines of work.

R1

Neural Network SWARM Architecture

A decentralized autonomy stack of small, verifiable micro-agents built in Rust and WebAssembly. Coordination without a single point of failure, sized for attritable platforms.

R2

VannOS

A resilient orchestration framework for decentralized undersea autonomy: mission continuity when the link drops, the node dies, or the environment refuses to cooperate. Unclassified white paper available.

R3

Contested-link operations

Feasibility work on swarm coordination over commercial satcom, with partner Fuse Integration. The architecture assumes the link is degraded, because it will be.

R4

OSINT at mission speed

Open-source intelligence collection and fusion on high-speed, low-latency pipelines: signals deduplicated, triaged, and delivered analyst-ready, with provenance carried end to end.

Why it holds up

Edge autonomy is a governance problem.

Latency

Decide at the edge

When sensitivity, specificity, and latency all matter, the decision has to happen on the platform. Our executive briefing on AI at the 5G/6G edge covers the math.

Governance

Same rules, harsher place

The governed pipeline does not relax in the field. Bounded tasking, scoped tools, and a trace of every decision, on hardware that fits in a payload bay.

Heritage

Undersea to unmanned

This program picks up where the founding work began: submarine command and control. Autonomy in environments where you cannot phone home is not new to us.

Read the unclassified version.

VannOS, the swarm architecture, and the 5G/6G edge briefing are available to qualified parties. Send your interest and your organization.

Request the white papers
defense: build@theanigroup.com
status: unclassified materials available