SwarmCore controls single or fleets of battlefield vehicles
Babcock International Group (Babcock) has developed SwarmCore, a technology that can control single or entire fleets of vehicles on a battlefield.
The advanced software system made up of multiple networks has been demonstrated by Babcock at the UK Ministry of Defence’s BattleLab site in Dorset.
The project was created in collaboration with Arqit, a quantum-safe encryption specialist, and supported by Innovate UK.
According to Babcock, SwarmCore can be used to control single or entire fleets of vehicles such as drones. Furthermore, it can be operated fully autonomously or by remote human control at a safe distance from the battlefield.
The defence giant added that a key benefit of SwarmCore and its integration with Arqit’s Symmetric Key Agreement Platform is its ability to receive and transmit data in a safe and secure way in a decentralised manner.
Consequently, if a single vehicle as part of a fleet was hacked or attacked then the rest of the fleet could continue its mission with no single asset ever being a point of failure.
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