Autonomy is revolutionising the defence and security ecosystem.

Reliance on autonomous systems is increasing. However, combining multiple systems and seamlessly integrating them with existing platforms presents a number of technical, cultural and ethical challenges that need to be overcome to be effective.

Scroll through the carousel, below, for nine of these and how QinetiQ, as an Autonomy Intergrator, helps our customers meet them:

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1. Complexity
Autonomous systems encompass a wide and complex array of technologies. As an Autonomy Integrator, we help our customers navigate this complexity, ensuring seamless integration and interoperability among diverse systems.
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2. Interdisciplinary Expertise
Integrating autonomous systems involves expertise from various domains. As an autonomy integrator, we serve as a liaison between these diverse fields, facilitating effective collaboration and communication.
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3. System Performance
An autonomy integrator ensures that autonomous systems perform optimally within military contexts. They focus on fine-tuning algorithms, enhancing sensor capabilities, and refining decision-making processes to align with mission requirements.
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4. Mission Adaptability
Autonomous systems need to adapt to dynamic and unpredictable environments. As an autonomy integrator, we play a key role in designing systems that can adjust to changing circumstances, ensuring their relevance and effectiveness in diverse operational scenarios.
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5. Safety and Ethics
Integrating autonomy into military operations raises ethical concerns and safety considerations. As an autonomy integrator, we work on building fail-safes, ethical frameworks, and adherence to international laws and norms governing the use of autonomous systems in warfare.
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6. Cybersecurity and Resilience
Autonomous systems are vulnerable to cyber threats and hacking attempts. As an autonomy integrator, we focus on bolstering cybersecurity measures, implementing encryption protocols, and ensuring system resilience against cyber-attacks.
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7. Human-Machine Teaming
Effective integration of autonomous systems requires seamless interaction between humans and machines. As an autonomy integrator, we work on user interfaces, training protocols, and human-machine interfaces to facilitate smooth interaction and trust between operators and autonomous systems.
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8. Interoperability and Compatibility
Military operations often involve a multitude of systems from different manufacturers and sources. As an autonomy integrator, we ensure interoperability and compatibility between autonomous systems, enabling them to work cohesively within the military ecosystem.
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9. Innovation and Adaptation
The field of autonomy is rapidly evolving. As an autonomy integrator, we focus on staying updated with emerging technologies, fostering innovation, and implementing advancements to maintain a competitive edge in military capabilities.
  

How QinetiQ can help 

By choosing QinetiQ as their autonomy integrator, our customers benefit quickly and safely; adding autonomous capability into their approach in a way that limits risk, accelerates pace, and improves certainty of outcome.

QinetiQ understands both the military mission and the technology roadmap. And only QinetiQ has the commercial drive to simultaneously deliver pace and assurance, providing a single route to safe adoption, faster than any other organisation.

We integrate the disparate parts of the autonomy community, orchestrate them into a more coherent offering, and enhance and assure that offering through the addition of scientific research, technical knowledge, and customer understanding.

In doing so, we provide a simple and safe way to access the right autonomous technology and expertise for any circumstance, enabling a huge range of organisations to rapidly add assured autonomous functionality to both new and existing capabilities.

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