Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company commercializing embedded AI, collaborative autonomy, and advanced avionics for defense markets, today announced that Palladyne AI subsidiary GuideTech was selected as one of only 14 companies invited to participate in the Relentless Wolfpack Industry Day, hosted by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in collaboration with the Doolittle Institute on April 28–29, 2026. This AFRL invite only event brought together a select cohort of defense innovators and government stakeholders to accelerate the development and integration of next-generation operational capabilities, with a specific focus on networked collaborative autonomous weapon salvos. SwarmOS™ was included in the submission by a major Tier 1 defense prime and GuideTech. No other hardware agnostic autonomous swarming solutions participated.
GuideTech’s invitation places it alongside some of the most consequential names in the defense industrial base creating a deliberate alignment of cutting-edge technology providers with mission-critical government priorities. The event is structured to foster direct collaboration between government and industry, with each participating company contributing to focused capability briefings, structured discussions, and interactive Q&A sessions with AFRL stakeholders and acquisition decision-makers.
As part of this select cohort, GuideTech and its affiliates under Palladyne AI will leverage GuideTech’s flight-tested, low-cost SwarmStrike™ cruise missile alongside Palladyne’s flight-proven SwarmOS collaborative autonomy software to deliver an open standards-based collaborative autonomy cruise missile solution. This integrated platform is engineered for interoperable, networked salvos capable of combining effects on target, incorporating recent battle data through rapid software updates, and operating alongside weapons from other vendors in a complex, contested battlespace, precisely the operational environment that defines modern multi-domain warfare.
SwarmOS was also incorporated into the submission of a separate defense prime participating in the cohort, a significant third-party validation of its interoperability and its growing recognition as an open-standard autonomy platform of choice.
Palladyne AI companies’ inclusion in this highly selective cohort reflects both the maturity of its hardware and the operational readiness of Palladyne’s autonomy software. The Relentless Wolfpack Industry Day is specifically structured to validate and accelerate the fielding of networked autonomous weapon capabilities—a domain where Palladyne AI’s vertically integrated approach, combining proprietary flight-tested hardware with platform-agnostic collaborative autonomy software, provides a distinct and differentiated advantage. This open architecture enables rapid interoperability with weapons from other vendors, a capability increasingly demanded by the Department of War as it prioritizes cost-effective, distributed, and rapidly deployable force multipliers.
“Being selected is a direct validation of what we have built,” said Doug Dynes, President of Palladyne Aerospace and Defense. “The Relentless Wolfpack program demands exactly what GuideTech and Palladyne AI deliver—a flight-tested strike platform and proven collaborative autonomy software that can execute networked salvos with other vendors’ weapons in the most contested environments imaginable. This is not a concept or a roadmap. SwarmStrike and SwarmOS are real, and they are ready to transition into programs of record. Our selection and participation at this Industry Day is a critical step in that path.”
Palladyne AI’s participation in the Relentless Wolfpack Industry Day represents a significant strategic inflection point, including direct engagement with AFRL program managers and government acquisition stakeholders, peer recognition alongside key defense primes as a validated innovator in collaborative autonomous weapon systems, and a clear pathway toward contracts, strategic partnerships, and potential programs of record in one of the most rapidly expanding segments of the defense market.
As global defense priorities accelerate toward networked, distributed, and cost-effective autonomous force multipliers, Palladyne AI and its subsidiaries are strategically positioned to capture a meaningful share of this rapidly expanding market opportunity. For more information, please visit https://www.palladyneai.com.