Lagrange Roadmap | Building Verifiable Autonomy

HORIZONS

A roadmap, not a feature list.

HORIZON · 00

TODAY · Q2 2026

LAUNCH

The coordination layer launches.

Out of the simulator, into hands-on evaluation. Drone-first. Edge-capable. Hybrid by design.

Four reference coordination modes. Collaborative ISR, communications relay, resilient formation, task reassignment.
Layered coordination architecture. Swarm-wide consensus for repositioning and role assignment. Active-neighborhood model for split-resilience. Local cached state for split-second decisions like threat evasion and collision avoidance.
Edge + ground deployment. Runs on the platform, on a ground station, or hybrid. No new runtime to adopt.
Open coordination interface. SDK-level integration with the autonomy stacks already shipping. MOSA-compatible.

HORIZON · 01

+ 3 MONTHS

From launch to fielded system.

Proof-of-function outside the lab. First scale step, first reference platforms, first published numbers.

First field trial. Public scorecard: nodes held, nodes lost, recovery time under induced comms loss.
Scale up to 50 nodes. First step past the launch demo envelope. Benchmarks published per release.
Operator console. Live observability into coordination state. What the swarm believes, what it decided, why. Mission constraints set from one place. Observability, not command-and-control.
SDK adapters. Reference integrations for the most common autonomy stacks. A partner integrates in months, not years.
Coordination SLA, published. Measured consensus-latency floor and partition-recovery time, as a public number.
Reference Platform Program. Joint engineering with select drone OEMs across attritable air, maritime uncrewed surface vessels, and group-1/2 sUAS.

HORIZON · 02

+ 6 MONTHS

BREAKTHROUGH

Strategic. Resilient. Survivable.

The swarm becomes operationally usable in contested environments. It actively responds to threats, keeps operators informed under degraded conditions, and outmaneuvers anti-drone systems.

Adaptive strategic coordination. Beyond reactive coordination. The swarm proactively re-organizes for coverage and event response. Adaptive mission re-planning when conditions change.
Resilient swarm-to-base relay. The operator always has a current picture of swarm state, even when the mesh is fragmented or the nodes can't reach the base station directly.
Anti-drone evasion. The coordination layer drives positioning, formation, and movement to make the swarm hard to target by counter-UAS systems.
Multi-vendor swarms. Multiple vendor platforms operate as one. The coordination layer is neutral by design.
Multi-domain consistency. Air, ground, maritime surface. One operating picture across heterogeneous platforms.
Field validation under EW and GPS denial. Real degradation, real ranges, public scorecards.

HORIZON · 03

+ 12 MONTHS

BREAKTHROUGH

Autonomy in denied environments.

The breakthrough horizon. The swarm operates where no other autonomous system can. Without GPS. Without giving away its position. With AI choosing the next move in real time.

AI-driven coordination. The swarm uses AI to dynamically drive coordination decisions in response to any event. Not preprogrammed playbooks, adaptive intelligence at the coordination layer.
GPS-less coordination. Peer-to-peer localization. Mesh navigation. No GNSS dependency. The swarm coordinates and navigates when GPS is spoofed or jammed.
Stealth mode. Coordinated low-RF-emission posture. The swarm coordinates without giving away that it's there.
Counter-swarm coordination. Engagement patterns for swarm-on-swarm encounters. Disperse, re-form, fall back. All coordinated, all under contested conditions.
Cross-domain coordination. Air, ground, maritime surface, undersea, space. Heterogeneous fleets coordinating deconfliction and coverage across domains in real time.

HORIZON · 04

+ 18 MONTHS

EXPLORATION

Where we're headed.

What the substrate makes possible. Capabilities operators will need, and that no one ships today.

Coordinated autonomy at scale. Thousand-node formations held by a peer-to-peer substrate, no central node.
AI-driven decisions at scale. Distributed intelligence at the swarm level. The substrate is what makes it possible.
Counter-swarm at theater scale. The defensive doctrine for the autonomous era.
Theater-wide signature management. Coordinated low-emission posture across an entire fleet.
Adaptive coalition operations. Allied swarms operating as one operating picture.
Beyond defense. Same substrate, civilian fleets at scale.

ROADMAP CALENDAR

What's on the calendar.

Real test ranges. Real experimentation events. Real program inflection points.

Bars are delivery tracks. Markers are dated calendar events.

▣ CAMPAIGN · 2026 → 2028

SHIPPINGFIELDCOALITIONCAPABILITY

Q2 26Q3 26Q4 26Q2 27Q4 27Q2 28Q4 28+

01 PRODUCT

NOW

COORDINATION v1 · 4 MODES

30 NODES · OPERATOR CONSOLE

STRATEGIC · BASE RELAY · CROSS-VENDOR

02 FIELD TEST

NPS JIFXCAMP ROBERTS

SWARM FORGECRUCIBLE · JUN 26

PROJECT CONVERGENCEEDGE / YUMA

TALISMAN SABRE 27AUKUS · INDO-PAC

COALITION EXP.ALLIED

03 PROGRAM

DIU ORCHESTRATOR$100M CHALLENGE

REF. PLATFORMFIRST SIGN

JIATF-401COUNTER-UAS

DAWGAUTONOMY PROGRAMS

AUKUS PILLAR 2MARITIME AUTO.

04 CAPABILITY

FOUR REFERENCE MODES · LAYERED ARCHITECTURE

STRATEGIC · ANTI-DRONE EVASION · MULTI-DOMAIN

AI-DRIVEN · GPS-LESS · STEALTH MODE

SHIPPING NEXT 6 TO 12 MO PLANNED / DIRECTION COMMITTED EVENT / MILESTONE

HORIZON · 04 · + 18 MONTHS

Where we're headed.

What the substrate makes possible. Capabilities operators will need at scale, and that no one ships today.

COORDINATED AUTONOMY AT SCALE

Thousand-node formations, no central node.

Mass autonomy held together by a peer-to-peer substrate. The bigger the swarm, the harder centralized control gets. The active-neighborhood architecture is the scaling primitive.

AI-DRIVEN DECISIONS AT SCALE

Distributed intelligence, not local autonomy.

The whole swarm makes coordinated AI-driven decisions at machine speed. Each node is autonomous. The swarm itself reasons. The substrate is what makes that possible.

COUNTER-SWARM AT THEATER SCALE

When the threat is a swarm, the answer is a swarm.

Engagement patterns for swarm-on-swarm encounters. Disperse, re-form, fall back, all under contested conditions. The defensive doctrine for the autonomous era.

THEATER-WIDE SIGNATURE MANAGEMENT

The swarm coordinates without giving itself away.

Coordinated low-emission posture across an entire fleet. The substrate enables operations in the most contested EM environments without revealing position or intent.

ADAPTIVE COALITION OPERATIONS

Allied swarms operating as one.

Heterogeneous fleets, multiple nations, one operating picture. Cross-vendor and cross-coalition coordination at the substrate level.

BEYOND DEFENSE

Same substrate, civilian fleets.

Warehousing, drone delivery, microgrid coordination, agriculture, robotics, autonomous shipping. The coordination problem doesn't end at the defense boundary.

ECOSYSTEM

FOUNDATION

DOCS

The path to coordinated autonomy.

A roadmap, not a feature list.

The coordination layer launches.

From launch to fielded system.

Strategic. Resilient. Survivable.

Autonomy in denied environments.

Where we're headed.

What's on the calendar.

Where we're headed.

Thousand-node formations, no central node.

Distributed intelligence, not local autonomy.

When the threat is a swarm, the answer is a swarm.

The swarm coordinates without giving itself away.

Allied swarms operating as one.

Same substrate, civilian fleets.

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