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Shield receives NSPA order for additional V-BATs for Hellenic Army and Navy
Contract significantly expands Greece’s V-BAT fleet and includes spares, training, ground support equipment and long-term in-service support ATHENS (November 11, 2026) — The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has ordered additional Shield V-BAT vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for the Hellenic Armed Forces. The additional aircraft order significantly expands a capability already in Hellenic service for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations on land and at sea. Operating a common V-BAT fleet across the Armed Forces will support greater interoperability, standardize training and maintenance, and give both services access to a runway-independent aircraft designed for maritime and expeditionary operations. “An order for additional V-BATs represents a major expansion of Greece’s persistent ISR capacity and a strong vote of confidence in an aircraft already operating in Hellenic service,” said James Lythgoe, regional director for Eastern and Southeast Europe at Shield.
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Shield names Matt Ofilos Chief Financial Officer
WASHINGTON – November 10, 2026 – Shield today announced the appointment of Matt Ofilos as Chief Financial Officer. Ofilos is a proven finance executive with decades of experience in national security and defense technology markets. “Matt is joining Shield at a pivotal moment as we’re experiencing significant growth across every part of the business,” said Gary Steele, CEO of Shield. “The kind of demand we see ahead requires a seasoned executive who has led complex organizations, and Matt has done that successfully across aerospace, technology, and critical infrastructure companies. I look forward to his leadership as we continue to build a generation-defining defense technology company.” Ofilos joins Shield from Parsons Corporation, a global technology solutions company serving the national security and infrastructure markets. He joined Parsons in 2021 and was named Chief Financial Officer in 2022. Prior to Parsons, Ofilos served as CFO of Amazon Web Services’ Worldwide Public Sector. Earlier in his career, he spent almost two decades at Raytheon in finance leadership positions across space, cyber, training and simulation, and air and missile defense.
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Does Your Simulation Capture the World Your Mission Requires?
This blog is part of a series exploring the technologies and principles shaping the future of simulation. A helicopter crew flies a night route in a simulator. The copilot/gunner switches to thermal to identify a building near the landing zone. The building is in the right place, but does it look as it would through the aircraft’s actual sensor? The gunner uses the display to practice recognizing objects and making engagement decisions. If the simulated sensor shows features the real equipment would not reveal, the gunner can learn to rely on cues that will be missing on the mission. Each sensor view needs to draw from the same building data, including its location, shape and surface materials. That shared description is digital ground truth.
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Shield’s Hivemind flies multiple Air Force CCAs as a coordinated team for the first time
Milestone follows an earlier flight in which an F-22 pilot directed a FQ-44A Fury in flight Shield’s Hivemind mission autonomy software has achieved two firsts for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program in three weeks: executing directives from an airborne F-22 pilot and enabling multiple CCAs to fly in formation and execute collaborative beyond-visual-range counter-air tactics. The demonstrations mark a progression from a fighter pilot directing an autonomous teammate to multiple autonomous aircraft maneuvering as a coordinated team, putting the “collaborative” in Collaborative Combat Aircraft. On October 8, an F-22 pilot served as an airborne “quarterback,” issuing high-level directives to a FQ-44A. Hivemind interpreted and executed those directives in real time, enabling the aircraft to perform dynamic maneuvers and simulated combat tasks under the pilot’s direction.
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Shield to acquire Echodyne in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion and raise $2.5 billion at a $28.8 billion valuation
Acquisition to expand Shield’s Mission Systems business into the fast-growing radar and counter-drone sectors SAN DIEGO and KIRKLAND, Wash. (November 5, 2026) – Shield today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Echodyne Corp., an industry-leading radar company, in a transaction valued at $5.3 billion. Echodyne radars are built into hundreds of counter-drone and security systems used by defense, government and commercial customers in more than 40 countries. Both companies expect triple-digit revenue growth this fiscal year. Shield is raising $2.5 billion to support the transaction, including $1 billion in Series H funding at a $28.8 billion post-money valuation, a $1 billion structured equity investment from funds managed by Blackstone and $500 million in debt financing led by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Sole Arranger. Of the $5.3 billion transaction value, $4.8 billion will be paid and issued at closing and up to an additional $500 million is contingent on Echodyne meeting agreed performance targets. “We are building a new-generation defense technology company consisting of three fast-growing, high-margin, mutually supporting business units: autonomy software, autonomous systems, and mission systems,” said Gary Steele, CEO of Shield. “The acquisition of Echodyne dramatically accelerates our efforts to meet growing customer demand for multi-mission capabilities, provides increased access to a rapidly expanding counter-drone industry, and further diversifies our revenue streams with sustained, compelling growth for the combined company.”
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We Built the First X-BAT Prototype in One Year. Now We Put it to the Test.
One year ago, we shared our design and vision for X-BAT, the world’s first autonomous vertical take off and launch (VTOL) strike fighter. Today, as I write this, the first-full scale X-BAT prototype is complete and on its way from our development facility in Frisco, Texas, to our flight test facility in Newton, Kansas. This milestone represents a year of sustained effort and discipline from a team that committed to an ambitious design and build schedule and delivered. That is no small feat. Shield is building the best team in aviation. This aircraft, and the speed at which we built it, is a testament to that team and the work put in over the last year. It’s an incredible accomplishment, to be sure. But we still have a long way to go, and we’re not losing sight of that.
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X-BAT for Europe: A Conversation with Former RAF Typhoon Pilot Andrew “Geeky” Hawkes
Andrew “Geeky” Hawkes knows what it takes to bring a new combat aircraft into service. As one of the first-ever Royal Air Force pilots to train and fight on the Eurofighter Typhoon, he helped introduce cutting-edge capabilities and develop tactics for the force. At Shield, he’s known to his colleagues almost exclusively as Geeky, a callsign he earned by being “massively computer literate” and quickly mastering the Typhoon’s technical details. Over time, he’s grown to embrace the moniker. “We live in a world where geeks are cool, I think.” Today, he draws on years of operational experience and time in the defence industry to lead European campaigns for Shield’s X-BAT, the world’s first vertical takeoff and landing autonomous strike fighter. We sat down with Geeky ahead of the International Fighter Conference (IFC) to discuss the operational needs shaping his interest in X-BAT, the development progress he has seen firsthand, and how Shield is building an enduring presence in Europe.
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Leonardo selects Shield to further its rotary-wing autonomy development
LONDON (October 29, 2026) — Shield today announced an agreement with Leonardo under which Leonardo will use Shield’s Hivemind software to further develop autonomy capabilities for integration onto Proteus, Leonardo’s autonomous uncrewed rotorcraft. The agreement expands Leonardo’s tools to build its own mission autonomy software for new and existing systems. Using the Hivemind Software Development Kit (SDK), the two companies will work together to integrate the software so Leonardo engineers can develop new autonomy capabilities for rotary-wing operations, including anti-submarine warfare (ASW), intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and contested logistics helicopter operations. “Leonardo builds some of the most widely flown rotorcraft in the world, and Hivemind gives its engineers new tools to add autonomy to them,” said Tom Schaefer, vice president of Hivemind engineering at Shield. “Autonomy software is never finished. It changes with the mission, the threat, and the sensors on the aircraft. Leonardo’s engineers can therefore tailor Hivemind software to their mission sets, and the work stays with them.”
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Shield AI and Rheinmetall Barzan Advanced Technologies to advance autonomy for ISR on Qatari Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs)
DOHA, Qatar (October 28, 2026) – Shield AI, a leader in AI-powered mission autonomy, and Barzan Holdings Joint Venture RBAT signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Milipol Qatar 2026 to explore the integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software into Qatari-designed maritime autonomous defense and security solutions. This strategic partnership will build on established local capabilities in advanced maritime technologies, combining RBAT’s indigenous engineering expertise with Shield AI’s autonomy solutions into Barzan Holdings solutions. Shield AI and RBAT will work closely to explore integration of Hivemind autonomy software, leveraging the combined expertise of both companies and building upon Qatar’s established engineering capabilities and technological strengths. Mimi Shalash, senior director for Hivemind at Shield AI, welcomed the MoU:
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The Mind Behind the Mission: Can You Trust Autonomy to Decide What Happens Next?
Following our blog on Autonomy Factories, this is the second in our series exploring autonomy. An unmanned aircraft is tracking a vehicle during an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission. The vehicle disappears beneath the tree line. As the aircraft searches the surrounding terrain, its communications link is disrupted and the operator loses contact. The operator can no longer intervene, but the mission must continue. The aircraft’s mission autonomy software, or autonomous pilot, must decide what to do next based on the objectives and the information available. In that moment, the operator must trust the autonomous pilot to carry out the mission safely and effectively. This raises a question increasingly central to autonomous systems: how do you establish that trust when you cannot predict exactly what the aircraft will do next?
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Sovereignty in Simulation
A training center has been running its simulator suite for eighteen months. Now operators are preparing for a mission in a new region. The intelligence office has fresh terrain and threat data, some of it too sensitive to leave the building. Until the simulators are updated with that data, pilots and sensor operators cannot practice in the new environment. Can the training center make that update with its own people and its own data, or does it need to wait on someone else? Before buying a training system, a program manager needs to know what the team can change on its own after delivery. Operators can only prepare for what the simulator shows them, and what it shows comes from the data and assumptions loaded into it. As the last post in this series argued, whoever controls those inputs holds real authority over training readiness. When the terrain no longer matches the latest intelligence, the program needs to be able to fix it before operators rehearse on it.
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Six Weeks to Sea: Hivemind Brings Thunder Tiger’s SeaSharks Together
As an island nation, maritime awareness is essential to Taiwan’s national security. Its coastline stretches more than 1,500 kilometers across the main island and outlying islands, so keeping watch over the surrounding waters requires vessels, sensors, and operators spread over a wide area. Autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) can extend surveillance, but adding more USVs also means operators spend more time telling each vessel what to do. Hivemind is Shield AI’s mission autonomy software that enables unmanned systems to see, think, and act with minimal human input. Most autonomous USVs today focus on individual platform functions, such as navigating along a predefined route, but Hivemind is different. Hivemind is built to manage the mission itself, including how multiple vessels work together as conditions change. Shield AI and Thunder Tiger Corp., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of unmanned systems, partnered to demonstrate this capability, integrating Hivemind aboard Thunder Tiger’s SeaShark 600 and SeaShark 800 USVs. - Progressed from initial software integration to a live maritime demonstration in only six weeks
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Honeywell Aerospace flies first autonomous aircraft 6 weeks after starting Shield AI Hivemind training, completes two-aircraft ISR mission
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.
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Shield AI Delivers First V-BATs to Taiwan, Deepening its Partnership with Taiwan Coast Guard Administration
TAIPEI (October 13, 2026) – Defense-tech company Shield AI announced the first delivery of its V-BAT to the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration (CGA) with its partner Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). Over the coming months, twelve V-BATs will be delivered to the CGA. Shield AI’s V-BATs were competitively selected by the CGA in July 2026 for its “Shipborne UAV” program. On October 7, the CGA presented its newly arrived V-BATs at the Port of Taipei to Minister Kuan Bi-Ling of the Ocean Affairs Council and Secretary General Joseph Wu of the National Security Council. Shield AI engineers demonstrated aircraft setup within minutes, displaying V-BAT’s ease of operations and advanced technological capabilities for maritime security. CGA will utilize V-BAT as a ship-based capability to maintain persistent Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) for surveillance, coastal patrols and law enforcement operations. Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft eliminate the need for runways and improve deployment flexibility while optimizing costs and reducing personnel requirements. Partnering to build local expertise, Shield AI will train Coast Guard operators and maintenance personnel while simultaneously creating a robust localized support system for the V-BATs with AIDC.
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GE Aerospace, Shield AI, and Poland’s WZL-2 Sign MOU to Advance F110 Engine MRO Support in Poland
WARSAW, Poland – October 12, 2026 – GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE), Shield AI and Poland’s Wojskowe Zakłady Lotnicze Nr 2 S.A. (WZL-2) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) support for F110 engine that powers X-BAT. Under the MOU, GE Aerospace, Shield AI and WZL-2 will explore establishing MRO capability in Poland for the F110 engine and its Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) to support X-BAT. The partners will examine the infrastructure, equipment, and training needed to build and expand that capability over time, so sustainment is planned alongside the aircraft from the start. The MOU builds on the letter of intent that Shield AI, Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. (PGZ) and WZL-2 signed in September to partner on the design, production, and delivery of X-BAT and on sustaining it in Poland. With GE Aerospace now joining Shield AI and WZL-2, the three partners will work toward the in-country MRO capability needed to keep X-BAT mission-ready on NATO’s eastern flank. “For more than 30 years, GE Aerospace has supported Poland’s armed forces and its aerospace industry,” said Amy Gowder, president & CEO, Defense & Systems at GE Aerospace. “This MOU extends that partnership to X-BAT, bringing proven propulsion and sustainment expertise together with Shield AI’s breakthrough innovation in AI-piloted aircraft and Polish industry to keep next-generation autonomous systems mission-ready.”
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Shield AI and U.S. government investment in X-BAT reaches $400 million
$150 million agreement modification supports Defense Exportability Features and is matched by $150 million in Shield AI capital WASHINGTON (October 8, 2026) — Shield AI today announced that the U.S. Navy has executed a $150 million modification to its existing Other Transaction (OT) agreement with the company to advance X-BAT, an AI-piloted, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft. The Navy executed the $150 million modification with funding from the Office of the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment through its Defense Exportability Features program. Shield AI will invest $150 million of its own capital in X-BAT alongside the government funding. In August, the Department of the Navy’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive (Aviation) Rapid Capability Cell [PAE(A) RCC], in partnership with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU),announced a separate $50 million funding action for X-BAT under the Runway Independent Maritime Expeditionary Strike (RIMES) effort. This action was a separate prior modification to the existing OT agreement referenced here. Shield AI independently committed $50 million of private capital alongside that effort. The two actions, together with Shield AI’s investments, bring announced public and private commitments to X-BAT to $400 million.
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