V-BAT: A Gold Standard for Architectural Excellence

I came to appreciate engineering architecture as a newly minted electrical engineer working on wireless power. My first startup, WiPower, would go on to be acquired by Qualcomm. At Qualcomm […]
Delivering Hivemind: A software ecosystem to enable autonomy on the edge

Alex Burtness is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins University, where he studied systems engineering and mechanical engineering, respectively. He served in the Navy as an […]
2022 Letter from the CEO

Team, Security and stability have been the foundation of progress throughout history. In the eight decades following WWII, our families have enjoyed a period marked by relative peace and stability […]
Total Rewards: Taking Care of Our People Beyond Salary

Catherine Khong is Shield AI’s Director of Total Rewards. With over 20 years working at companies including Disney and Thermo Fisher, she brings crucial industry perspective to this role as […]
Engineering Innovations with Lifesaving Implications

Jazz is an applied physicist and technical director at Shield AI. She led a V-BAT engineering team that successfully developed a belly bay payload capability and a custom cooling solution […]
Accelerating the Operational Deployment of the World’s Best AI Pilot to F-16, F-22, F-35 and Beyond

Craig “Bluto” Baker is a 30-year U.S. Air Force veteran, who recently retired as a Brigadier General. He is a command pilot with multiple combat tours and has directed operational […]
Hivemind for Operational, Read-and-React Swarming

As part of Shield AI’s work on an AFWERX Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract, we’ve integrated our autonomy and artificial intelligence stack, Hivemind, onto our vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) […]
A 30-year Adventure: From Working on F/A-18 Avionics to Managing a Global V-BAT Fleet

At Shield AI, we love a good story. Whether it’s a story about one of our teammates going above and beyond to delight a customer or colleague or a story […]
Mission First, People Always

During my more-than-20-year career as human resources leader, I have learned that a meaningful, impactful mission is one of the greatest offerings an organization can make to their prospective and […]
AI for Maneuver: Air Dominance

“AI for Maneuver has the promise to break the paradigm by delivering both quality and quantity: capabilities that don’t just augment human performance, but also scale human performance.”