AI-Enabled Modular UAS Demonstrator with Distributed Sub-Vehicles (GNSS-Challenged)
PiR2-IT designed and developed a modular unmanned platform prototype built around a “mothership” coordinating multiple deployable sub-vehicles. The demonstrator is currently undergoing iterative testing to validate modular integration, AI-enabled mission support (with human governance), cyber resilience, and continuity of operations in GNSS-challenged environments.
Prototype status
- Developed by PiR2-IT as a prototype / demonstrator
- Currently in testing with iterative improvements based on measured results
- Validation focus: modular integration, distributed orchestration, resilience scenarios, maintainability
Key Capabilities
Premium delivery across architecture, AI, cybersecurity, assurance and regulated environments — designed for outcomes and evidence.
Architecture & Roadmaps
Reference architectures, integration patterns, and executable roadmaps that align business, risk, and delivery.
Security-by-Design
Threat-informed design, controls mapping, and audit-ready evidence across cloud, hybrid, and supplier ecosystems.
AI Enablement
Data foundations, governance, and deployable AI patterns with operational readiness and accountability.
V&V / Assurance
Traceability, quality gates, and independent assurance to make delivery measurable and defensible.
Interoperability
Standards-aligned integration for complex, multi-stakeholder environments (incl. NATO STANAG frameworks as applicable).
Delivery Governance
PMO controls, KPI dashboards, RAID discipline, and decision-grade reporting for predictable outcomes.
Ambition & Differentiators
A future-ready architecture approach optimized for reach, modularity, and auditable delivery.
Modular by design
Standardized subsystem boundaries and interfaces enable rapid reconfiguration and maintainability.
Distributed operations
Mothership + multiple deployable sub-vehicles scale sensing coverage and tasking flexibility.
Resilience in degraded GNSS
Continuity focus under GNSS/GPS challenged conditions and communications constraints.
Circular engineering
Repurposed compute hardware and COTS control modules reduce cost and support sustainability goals.
Interoperability-ready
Designed to integrate with mission management ecosystems and multi-asset coordination concepts.
Evidence-led delivery
Assurance in mind: traceability, test evidence, and decision logs.
Powerful AI Component
AI enhances observation, reliability, and operational efficiency—under policy constraints and human governance.
Edge AI (onboard)
- Real-time perception for situational awareness (observation/monitoring)
- Sensor fusion and tracking to increase confidence and reduce false positives
- Autonomy support for routing, task allocation, and contingency handling (non-lethal scope)
Fleet intelligence
- Multi-vehicle coordination logic to maximize coverage and continuity
- Anomaly detection to flag unexpected system states and potential interference
- Predictive health monitoring to improve maintainability over test cycles
AI-assisted outputs are designed for review: logging, traceability, and fit-for-purpose explainability principles.
Verification & Validation (V&V) / Assurance
A structured V&V approach supports prototype maturity, stakeholder confidence, and audit-ready evidence.
Traceability
- Requirements → architecture → implementation → test evidence
- Acceptance criteria and quality gates aligned to maturity targets
- Regression controls and configuration baselines
Test focus
- Integration and resilience scenarios (including GNSS-challenged conditions)
- Reliability, maintainability, and operational readiness checks
- Evidence packs: reports, baselines, risks, decisions
Standards & Interoperability (incl. NATO STANAG)
Standards alignment is handled as a controlled compliance activity, tailored to the target operational ecosystem and integration endpoints.
NATO STANAG alignment (as applicable)
Interoperability alignment based on NATO STANAG frameworks for coalition interoperability expectations, UAS C2 integration patterns, and ISR information exchange principles—applied according to the mission ecosystem.
Detailed STANAG profile mapping is available under NDA.
Engineering & security standards
- ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 lifecycle principles (systems engineering)
- ISO/IEC 27001 concepts (ISMS-aligned security thinking)
- Structured assurance documentation and control mapping for regulated environments
PiR2-IT provides IT and digital engineering only (architecture, AI systems engineering, cybersecurity, integration, governance, V&V/assurance). No weaponization services are provided.