Rocket One Launches Swarm Stage AI Drone-Swarm Threat Emulation Platform for U.S. Military Counter-UAS

Commercially Proven Swarm Technology Capable of Coordinating Thousands of Aircraft Now Available to U.S. Defense Organizations for Drone-Swarm Training, Testing and Evaluation

Rocket One Inc., a technology company focused on next-generation defense, space and advanced computing technologies, announced the launch of Swarm Stage AI, a large-scale drone-swarm threat-emulation platform being made available to U.S. military and defense organizations for counter-unmanned aircraft system (“C-UAS”) training, testing and evaluation.

Swarm Stage AI is built upon commercially proven swarm-coordination technology that has been used to coordinate thousands of synchronized aircraft. Rocket One is adapting this technology to create realistic, repeatable, and scalable adversarial drone-swarm scenarios designed to help defense organizations train personnel and evaluate technologies against the growing threat posed by coordinated unmanned aircraft.

“Mass drone attacks are rapidly changing the modern battlefield and creating an entirely new challenge for military defense systems,” said Robb Knie, Chief Executive Officer of Rocket One. “A system designed to detect or defeat a single drone must increasingly be prepared to confront coordinated groups of drones arriving simultaneously. Swarm Stage AI is designed to help create the realistic training and testing environment required to address that challenge.”

“We are making Swarm Stage AI available to the U.S. military and broader defense community for capabilities briefings, demonstrations, testing and evaluation,” Knie continued. “Our objective is to help provide the adversarial swarm environments needed to develop, test and validate the next generation of American counter-drone technologies.”

From Commercial Swarm Scale to Defense Threat Emulation

The underlying Swarm Stage technology was developed to coordinate large numbers of aircraft simultaneously and includes a library of more than 2,500 field-tested formations and flight assets.

Swarm Stage AI is adapting coordination architecture for defense applications, including the creation and execution of multi-drone threat scenarios that could be used to evaluate C-UAS technologies and train personnel against increasingly complex aerial threats.

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The platform’s capabilities include:

Large-Scale Swarm Coordination — Technology derived from a platform with experience coordinating thousands of synchronized aircraft.
AI Threat Builder — Designed to translate defined threat scenarios into coordinated multi-drone behaviors.
3D Mission Preview — Enables swarm scenarios to be visualized and reviewed before flight.
Custom Threat Scenarios — Enables new swarm configurations and flight scenarios to be developed for specific training and testing requirements.
C-UAS Training and Evaluation — Designed to provide representative drone-swarm scenarios against which detection, tracking and counter-UAS technologies can be evaluated.
U.S. Based Development — Swarm Stage AI is designed, developed, and operated in the United States.

Mass-Drone Threat

The proliferation of inexpensive unmanned aircraft and increasingly coordinated drone operations is creating new challenges for military forces and critical infrastructure.

Rocket One believes that developing effective counter-UAS capabilities requires not only improved detection and defensive technologies, but also realistic environments in which those systems can be repeatedly tested against coordinated multi-drone scenarios.

Rather than developing another counter-drone weapon, Swarm Stage AI is designed to provide the adversarial swarm environment against which counter-drone systems can train and be evaluated.

Potential applications include evaluating radar and sensor systems, drone detection and tracking technologies, command-and-control systems, counter-UAS technologies and operational responses to coordinated drone incursions.

“If America is going to build the world’s most capable counter-drone systems, those systems need realistic threats to train against,” Knie said. “We believe our experience coordinating large numbers of aircraft provides Rocket One with an opportunity to develop an important capability within the U.S. counter-UAS ecosystem.”

Available to U.S. Military and Defense Organizations

Rocket One is making Swarm Stage AI available for capabilities briefings, demonstrations, evaluations and potential collaborations with U.S. military organizations, government agencies, defense contractors, counter-UAS developers and authorized test and training facilities.

The Company intends to pursue opportunities to demonstrate Swarm Stage AI alongside existing and emerging counter-UAS technologies and to work with defense organizations to develop increasingly sophisticated drone-swarm training scenarios.

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