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Tomahawk Robotics Appoints The Honorable Ryan D. McCarthy To The Board Of Directors

Tomahawk Robotics, the leading innovator of common control solutions, is pleased to announce that former Secretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy has been appointed to its Board of Directors.

Mr. McCarthy was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Secretary of the Army, and he previously served as the special assistant to the 22^nd Secretary of Defense Robert Gates under Presidents Bush and Obama. Prior to this, he was the special assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. Mr. McCarthy also proudly served in the U.S. Army from 1997 to 2002 and was involved in combat operations in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom with the 75th Ranger Regiment.

Ryan will bring his tremendous Army knowledge and DOD acquisition expertise to the Tomahawk Robotics team.

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Tomahawk Robotics wins AFWERX SBIR 21.1 Direct to Phase II Contract

Tomahawk is excited to share that we have been awarded a Direct to Phase II SBIR contract by AFWERX to provide Universal Robotic Control for Integrated Base Defense. 

Under this contract, Tomahawk Robotics will integrate multiple robotic platforms into the Kinesis ecosystem to allow both autonomous and manual multi-domain robotic control from a single, common controller. Additionally, video streams from the integrated unmanned systems (Ghost Robotics Vision 60, Skydio X2D, and DefendTex D40) will be used for object detection and recognition by leveraging Tomahawk Robotics' Kinesis AI capabilities at the tactical edge.

This solution will allow USAF Security Forces to automate Force Protection applications while ingesting and sharing intel across Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), Advanced Battle Management System and Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) architectures. 

"This capability will be truly remarkable and will posture our warfighters for tomorrow's fight today," said Maj Jordan Criss, 325th Security Forces Squadron Commander. "We are humbled for this opportunity to work with these outstanding mission partners for the betterment of our collective Force Protection efforts within the Department of Defense."

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Tomahawk Robotics Receives Award from Department of Defense

We're pleased to announce our Grip & Mimic controllers have received an award from the DoD for the Defense Production Act, Title III Program.

This award is part of the United States’ effort to expand domestic industrial base capabilities that are critical to the Department and the American Warfighter. The funding will be applied towards Tomahawk Robotics’ on-going prototyping effort with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for the Soldier Robotic Controller Program (SRoC).

“We’re excited to work with DIU, an organization that values and recognizes the speed of technological change,” said Tomahawk Robotics’ CTO, Matt Summer.

Tomahawk Robotics is among 7 companies receiving this award on behalf of the DoD.

“This investment in the defense industrial base is intended to provide critical battlefield capabilities across the spectrum of conflict, including on-demand reconnaissance which augments service members’ capabilities and increases their survivability, lethality, and mission flexibility,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy Jesse Salazar.

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Tomahawk Robotics appoints LTG (Ret.) Paul Ostrowski as a Strategic Advisor

We're pleased to announce that former Principal Military Deputy and Director of the Army Acquisition Corps, LTG (Ret.) Paul Ostrowski, has been appointed as a Strategic Advisor.

LTG (Ret.) Ostrowski served as the Army's top uniformed acquisition official as well as a Program Executive Officer. As the Principal Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA (ALT)), LTG (Ret.) Ostrowski led a staff of nearly 40,000 personnel with 720 acquisition programs and a portfolio of $36 billion while overseeing all the Army's acquisition workforce.

Ostrowski brings over 28 years of defense acquisition expertise to Tomahawk Robotics. This experience will assist the company in bringing their cutting-edge technology into the hands of U.S. military service men and women. According to Ostrowski, "Unmanned systems are a critical capability on the future battlefield that we have to get right. I believe Tomahawk Robotics' universal robotic control software, Kinesis, is a capability that will allow the Army to address a key element of the Army's overarching robotic strategy more quickly and will also maximize the value of existing unmanned systems investments already made by the DoD."

Specifically, Ostrowski will focus his attention on further developing the Intellectual Property strategy of Tomahawk Robotics to align with a model that best supports the needs of the Army and the broader DOD customer base. "I'm excited to advise the team at Tomahawk on best IP practices that will progress their common control software capability down a program acquisition pathway that makes sense and satisfies the unique needs of the Services' diverse stakeholders," he added.

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Get access to new platforms and performance updates

Tomahawk Robotics is dedicated to providing reliable technology that is designed by our team in the USA. We're always integrating new UxVs and adding new features and Mission Modules into Kinesis.

These new unmanned platforms and features are available to all active Kinesis users, unlocking an inventory of UxVs and capabilities tailored for your mission profile needs.

New Features:

The 21.09 release includes an updated Kinesis user interface for a more streamlined user experience in addition to multiple Kinesis Sim performance improvements.

Tomahawk Robotics has added the Skydio X2D (US Army SRR) and the QinetiQ SPUR (US Army CRS-I) to our growing list of supported platforms.

This update also optimizes Kinesis for Persistent Systems' MPU5 RDC hardware and includes additional stability enhancements and bug fixes throughout the Kinesis application.

Tomahawk Robotics awarded contract with United States Marine Corps

Melbourne, FL – June 10, 2021 – Tomahawk Robotics is pleased to announce the award of the Radio Agile Integrated Device (RAID) Program through the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL).

Program activities and deliveries will take place over the course of 2021 and 2022. The RAID Program provides a fully integrated common control and communications solution for both air and ground unmanned systems. It will enable universal robotic control of legacy Program of Record (PoR) systems as well as next generation unmanned systems, sensors, and payloads for dismounted Marine Corps units.

Universal robotic control technologies provide infantry units significant improvements in situational awareness, mobility and lethality and ultimately ready Marines for the challenges of tomorrow’s battlefields. The RAID Program leverages Tomahawk Robotics’ product family, including the Kinesis universal robotic control software, Grip, KxM and MxC-Mini.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to provide universal robotic control technologies for the Marine Corps and build on the investments of other DOD units and allies. The Marine Corps is doing superb work preparing for the multi-domain battlefield of the future; you see this reflected in their force structure, doctrine, and technology adoption. We are proud to be part of this program and to support their efforts to achieve effective Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T),” said Brad Truesdell, CEO of Tomahawk Robotics.  

Athena AI Successfully Integrates with Tomahawk Robotics’ KxM Edge Processor

Tomahawk Robotics and Athena AI have strengthened their partnership by deploying Athena AI’s latest Vision pipeline onto Tomahawk Robotics’ KxM edge processor, providing military personnel AI-enhanced decision support aids at the tactical edge.

Tomahawk Robotics’ KxM gives users the ability to ingest large amounts of data and process it at the edge using the latest AI algorithms.  This latest collaboration enables the use of the most recent release of Athena AI’s suite with a range of both ground and airborne unmanned systems. Updates include quantization-aware training for increases in AI speed of 2-3x, latest datasets pertinent to US Military organizations, and detection filtering algorithms to reduce false positives.

Athena AI has performed significant thermal and software integration testing on the KxM Edge Processor and various unmanned systems by leveraging Tomahawk Robotics’ Kinesis software. Kinesis was built to bridge both the AI and unmanned systems ecosystems. Until the advent of Kinesis there had been no practical way to quickly apply AI across sensors from multiple unmanned platforms and use AI with the simplicity of an appliance. Managing Director of Athena AI, Stephen Bornstein, explains: “What we have with Tomahawk Robotics is the ideal use case for our products. Tomahawk Robotics’ Kinesis ecosystem provides the network and user interface, and we plug our AI straight into that for enhanced decision support.”

About Athena AI  

Athena AI provides military forces with unmatched decision support capability utilizing state of the art AI vision toolbox, geospatial AI for terrain analysis, advanced effects modelling and an integrated Rules of Engagement (ROE) framework.

Learn more at  https://athenadefence.ai