Honeywell Aerospace flies first autonomous aircraft 6 weeks after starting Shield AI Hivemind training, completes two-aircraft ISR mission

Publisher preview

Hivemind Enterprise helped Honeywell cut an estimated 54-week autonomy-development effort to six weeks before progressing to multi-aircraft teaming PHOENIX (October 13, 2026) — Honeywell Aerospace (Nasdaq: HONA) and Shield AI today announced the completion of two autonomous flight demonstrations, culminating in a coordinated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission conducted by two aircraft running Shield AI’s Hivemind. Honeywell Aerospace’s autonomy team began training on Hivemind Enterprise, Shield AI’s integrated platform for developing, deploying, and operating autonomous systems, in late April. Six weeks later, in mid-June, the team flew a BFD-SE8 multirotor aircraft owned by Honeywell Aerospace autonomously for the first time using an autonomy stack built on Hivemind Enterprise. The team held its first official demonstration on July 8 in Plymouth, Minnesota, where the aircraft took off on its own, followed a planned route, rerouted around a no-fly zone, and returned to base. More recently, two aircraft running Hivemind and equipped with Honeywell Aerospace’s o480 inertial navigation system completed a coordinated ISR mission near Phoenix. The aircraft shared target information and divided mission tasks autonomously, demonstrating multi-aircraft teaming built by Honeywell engineers on Hivemind Enterprise.

A saved ApplyDjinn digest is not available for this story yet.

This preview is supplied by the publisher. The complete publication remains at its original source.