Auterion, the world’s leading provider of operating systems and apps for aerial, land and naval drones, offers products that empower a diverse range of autonomous robots to perform tasks such as delivering goods, reaching military targets or providing aid in life-saving missions. Their AuterionOS is a complete onboard software platform that allows robots to perform advanced operations by enabling specific autonomous actions, ensuring safe mission execution, establishing communication with other software and hardware, and providing LTE connectivity to transfer data in real time to the user and the cloud. The Auterion Government Solutions combines the innovation and velocity of a commercial technology company with the deep understanding and industry knowledge of a seasoned defense contractor. Auterion is headquartered in Arlington/Virgina, United States, and has research operations in Zurich.
As part of their partnership, Auterion and Rheinmetall will combine their expertise in order to create a military industry standard for controlling and operating unmanned aerial, land and naval drone systems. The co-operation includes joint product development and sales activities for unmanned platforms. The resulting homogeneous operating system is expected to provide military users with a significant advantage.
As a drone manufacturer and leading system supplier for defence technology, Rheinmetall is drawing on the operational experience gained from the Luna NG and Aladin systems and incorporating it into its work with the customer. Various drone systems from the Düsseldorf-based technology group have already been in service for many years with the German Armed Forces / Bundeswehr and have been deployed in Ukraine for several months.
Dr Timo Haas, Chief Digital Officer at Rheinmetall AG, explains: “We see over two hundred different aerial unmanned systems in Ukraine. This makes military training very costly and time-consuming, and system interoperability is not guaranteed. Co-operation with Auterion and the development of a homogeneous operating system will enable the efficient and scalable deployment of unmanned systems. With our approach, there will be no need for system-dependent user training or system-specific integration into an overall system network in the future”.
Lorenz Meier, CEO of Auterion: “In the future, drones will be used in large quantities and, like computers and smartphones, they need a common operating system to make this happen. AuterionOS allows the customer to combine all drones on a common basis and to integrate different manufacturers into a common architecture. Our software stack has already been tried and tested in operation and thus enables software-defined defence”.
(Press release/RAN)