National Security Hackathon (by Army xTech)

Radio Agent, deployable in the cloud or at the edge on the battlefield. Listens to all available channels, transcribes, categorizes and acts, fully…

"We must defend U.S. space capabilities, and we must protect our forces from space-enabled attack." — CSO Gen. Saltzman, Space Warfighting, March 2025. Space…

AWW. Aim with Words. The first targeting system that takes orders in English. You tell it 'fire at the electronics, ignore the laptop' it shows you its…

We embed TAK into a phone so it survives a factory reset and we can get PLI and sensor data off.

Prometheus (Icarus) is an offensive AI swarm for authorized security testing. It runs a multiagent system on top of LLMs and standard recon tools like…

24/7 Maritime Situational Awareness Solution with All-in-one Unmanned System

We built a real-time National Security Digital Twin on Palantir Foundry. Hawk-I integrates live Shodan cyber-telemetry, Exa AI OSINT, and Danti searches into…

We built a Field Viewers–branded web dashboard plus a Raspberry Pi HTTP gateway that turns low-cost FV-13 Scout WiFi drones into a carry-and-fly recon swarm…

In this day and age of National Security, launch cadence is important because we literally want to own the space above earth. The current process to send…

K9 Sentinel is a rugged, portable, fully off-grid AI safety monitoring system for Military Working Dogs (MWDs). It provides real-time situational awareness…

The Silver Dome is a portable early-warning iron dome system that costs <$50 and can be deployed instantly to protect American military bases overseas…

Ghost Fleet Detector identifies ships that "go dark," intentionally disabling their AIS transponders to evade sanctions, smuggle cargo, or fish illegally…

HELLBAT — Acoustic Drone Detection at the Edge Modern counter-UAS depends on RF and radar — both fail against the threats that matter most. Acoustic is the…

Overpower is a predictive model of the fuel supply chain modeling over 187 different firm level agents, their responses to supply shocks and military…

High resilience system to maintain target custody in contested airspace. It uses sensor fusion and multi-arm bandit to select the best sensing and tracking…

EnQuanta's Dynamic Hybrid Crypto-Agility Framework addresses a growing operational challenge: cryptographic algorithms do not last forever, and systems that…

SAx is a dual use drone dispatch and control program. Disaster response and national security teams often work in places where normal infrastructure is…

https://footprint.army Pre-deployment adtech self-audit tool. Measures and mitigates advertising technology surveillance exposure at the personal, unit, and…

Aias Shield is a mission-alignment layer for autonomous AI systems that helps prevent models from acting on compromised, low-trust, or misleading external…

Callout is a dialogue-based command and control (C2) protocol that enables Machine-to-Machine-to-Operator collaboration with voice as the substrate. When…

HADES is a security first drone swarm simulation that trains edge aware UAV teams to protect convoys, detect threats, reroute safely, and support humanitarian…

GPS denied autonomous budget friendly quad copter drones (Nvidia Isaac robotics simulator environment)

Skylock is the trust layer for Counter-UAS. Every drone-detection product on the market answers one question: is there a drone? Skylock answers a different…

The perception model of a UAV that crushed tank detection yesterday fails the moment the adversary tries to camouflage it: cope cages, camo netting, hedgehog…

We built a simulator to gauge the effects of environmental factors on the integrity of autonomous vehicles (AV). Our platform empowers engineers to…

Liminal Custody, a pre-command evidence integrity system, ensures that the operator remains in the judgment seat rather than the correlation seat. Most…

SplatSwarm is a terrain-aware autonomous drone swarm mission rehearsal engine that lets commanders stress-test missions before any drone leaves the ground…

TAC-FUSE is a local-first edge C2 node for Problem Statement 2: Edge Deployments and Drone Operation. The demo proves that a front-line operator can keep…

Gundo is a maritime sensor allocation watch terminal. Last January, 140 vessels went dark off Long Beach. Gundo triages every dark event by duration…

Project Kamikaze is an edge-deployable early warning system for Shahed/Geran-class UAVs. We trained a custom detection model on a hand-annotated dataset and…

Vanguard — Real-Time Persistent Surveillance for Palantir Foundry The problem with military surveillance today is that every option requires too much: drones…

Here's your project description, ready to paste into the submission form: --- SkillHarness: In-Flight Capability Composition for Autonomous Drone…

Firefly Intel is on-device tactical sensor fusion for the dismounted soldier. It runs entirely on the tablet the operator already carries, fusing EO, IR…

SpectralEye is an electronic warfare system that allows you to represent with high fidelity your current electromagnetic state. SpectralEye uses advanced RF…

Open claw to fly a drone. Just the start of an MIT fully open source project. (Could only attend 1/2 hackathon due to a funeral)

We trained a model imitating rat's danger detection senses into what humans can feel and used bee hive examples to then pass it to other people at the field…

RF Sentinel is an AI-powered RF signal classification engine that treats every radio sensor as a data source to be analyzed and classified for operational…

Autonomous drones sit on 2 extremes, ISR and kinetic effects. We aimed to explore the large gap in between those 2 capabilities. We built a drone capable of…

Command & Control for Kill Web Management using 3D Gaussian splatting that allows you to send in a 360 drone to map out an entire combat zone, create hundreds…

We built a Command and control dashboard for visualizing constellations, with an AI chatbot layered in to autonomously execute on satellite collision avoidance.

We are fusing multimodal sensors to surface correlated threats. We are pulling in data from unmonitored sensors in the field, identifying signals above a…

This is the Vector ISR Mission Planner. the goal of thi is to demonstrating a way of programming missions for drones that have decision points without having…

Watchtower reduces the cybersecurity burden of delivering software to the U.S. government by automating the detection and remediation of critical…

Manifold is a first-of-its-kind geometric coordinate system for information warfare. While frontier models like ChatGPT-5.5 Pro hit a 'structural scaling…

Army SignalSentry is an AI-assisted command-and-control platform for disaster response operations. It fuses distress signals from multiple sources into a…

In bandwidth-constrained environments, streaming raw drone video overwhelms both networks and operators. With the VTS protocol, we send less—but infer…

We built the fastest and most AI native mission control and command platform; voice activated with the ability to control a fleet of drones

Multi-agent AI platform that tests applications for vulnerabilities.

A black-box auditor for AI coding assistants that detects suspect post-training preferences for specific software packages — the supply-chain attack vector…

This project is an AI-assisted search-and-rescue sensing platform that fuses LiDAR, thermal, and visible camera data to detect human presence, localize it in…

Hamilton — Trust-Aware C2 Layer for Contested Airspace Hamilton is a real-time command-and-control layer that gives commanders the most relevant…

One-click subcontractor ranking and flow-down document automation for defense primes, with a policy engine that guarantees FAR compliance and generates the…

Mighty Morphing — RealID for Voice Authority Why AI voice cloning has collapsed voice as a chain-of-command primitive. A senior officer’s voice can now be…

defensive drone swarm command and control for the tactical edge.

ARGUS ingests real-time Telegram signals from verified battlefield channels, enriches each event using an LLM to extract structured intelligence — actors…

Project Tessera is an adversarial decision-making substrate that lets frontier AI models plan, execute, and learn from battle plans without retraining. A…

Mycelium solves the critical bandwidth bottleneck in military Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The military already operates at the state of the art with…

Fetching multi signals from camera feeds and network logs to capture anomalous behaviors

TacNet Edge is a low-bandwidth mission command system that uses local small language models to convert voice reports into text, extract mission- critical…

C2D2 is a combat decision dominance platform built on TAK to be configured on ATAK for soldiers undergoing Ranger School Training. It supposed to digitize the…

Project ARGUS draws from previous high-altitude solar gliders to position forward sensors in any domain to detect hypersonic glide missiles. The glider…

Military and industrial training is still constrained by two brittle modes. Physical simulation is expensive, fixed in place, and hard to reset. Live-fire…

Darkmesh is a decentralized tactical command-and-control mesh that survives DDIL environments — Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, Limited connectivity. The…

Airfields are high-signal locations where subtle visual changes can indicate meaningful shifts in activity, but manually reviewing satellite imagery over time…

Voice-driven cascade intelligence on Palantir Foundry.

A single operator commands a swarm of autonomous drones from a backpack-portable edge kit. Each drone runs a small reasoning LLM on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin…

BACKGROUND - Modern war is a drone war: Ukraine fields ~7M cheap FPV drones in 2026 — now the #1 cause of battlefield casualties, ahead of artillery. - The US…

Introducing Fantom Finder — passive-radar verification of cooperative broadcasts. $500 of off-the-shelf SDR hardware listens for radar reflections off…

BattleSpace C2 is a single‑screen Common Operating Picture (COP) for a small operations cell. It fuses live AIS, simulated EO/IR/RF/radar, and a real or…

FOG drones are immune to jamming. The current answer is barbed wire. BlackFiber neutralizes them with an edge-autonomous Palantir CASK + laser gimbal that…

Our project will address Capability 3: Mission Command and Control. In many cases, the real-time detection and anticipation of other actors’ (opponents' or…

We automated akey portion of the air-support to JTAC to Ground Force Commander kill-chain, in which the JTAC operator develops a 9-line description of the air…

Shadow Fleet Detector is a multi-intelligence maritime monitoring app that fuses Sentinel-1 SAR imagery with AIS vessel data to visualize vessel activity…

The intelligence system that can draw connections across an infinite number of data sources, for ANY data type.

Distributed data pipelines at the edge.

EMCON Sentinel is an open-source ATAK-CIV plugin that protects drone operators by detecting their radio emissions, modeling enemy signal-tracking…

Critical infrastructure OSINT monitoring: Specifically, the war with Iran has highlighted how seemingly random tweets and other social media posts have been…

Our project aims to enable J3 (Operations), J5 (Plans/Strategy) and political advisors to make decisions and execute kill chains with the context of political…

Beacon is an AI-powered, offline-capable system that converts a soldier's voice into doctrinally-correct military reports (MEDEVAC 9-lines, LOGSTATs, contact…

An ISR drone command system controlled entirely through natural language via Claude Code and a custom MCP server. A single operator can arm, take off…

We built a wearable, edge-based system that turns real-world observation into structured data—automatically capturing personnel and supply counts without…

The Tactical Edge Route Agent (TERA) : A voice driven, offline AI agent for tactical operators, running entirely on a Jetson Orin Nano. Operator speaks or…

Badlands is a cyber self-play environment for long-horizon, co-evolving attacker and defender evaluation. It helps mission owners see how model behavior…

Today's command-and-control platforms are built for staff and battle captains, and they're only as good as the input they get. Frontline units don't plan…

A multi-modal CUAS detector that fused RGB, thermal, and event streams.

SkyCustody is an edge-first SIGINT pipeline that solves the mentor's exact ask: a 149 KB CNN + autoencoder on-device turns 232 GB/hr of raw RF into ~600 B…

We had to update the link from youtube as it would not generate the link at https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCiYqw2-65DuCkB0WMsu2nSQ -> USE VIMEO…

We see through walls. Project Sauron is a passive WiFi-based through-wall localization system that detects and tracks human presence inside a structure in…

WireBird protects critical sites from drone swarm attacks with autonomous drones that perch, recharge, and relaunch from overhead powerlines. Enemy drones…

LOE 2: Drone Ops Conducting rapid Battle Damage Assessment during JADR Operations

EW sension fusion for on ground soldiers at the tactical edge

Performance‑focused, latency telemetry tool for inferring coarse network location and falsifying claimed regions using UDP echo probes, kernel RX timestamps…

Acoustic Drone Detection model (i.e. detects drones via microphone and audio)

Hydra is an autonomously command control system that is built to execute critical level missions autonomously,

Swarm of robots, autonomous agents, ar for soldiers

Operator dashboard for fusing sensors detecting drones with acoustic, radar IR machine learning model

Lincoln — a governance runtime that lets autonomous weapon systems engage at machine speed while satisfying DoDD 3000.09's requirement for "appropriate levels…

The goal is to develop an indoor reconnaissance drone that can navigate through buildings, scan its surroundings, and transmit a live video feed to a…

Ghost-track is a drone detection, tracking, and response-deployment system that works from a live camera feed. It identifies aerial threats, tracks their…

ORACLE — Objective Reasoning And Cognitive Liability Engine — is an intelligence failure prevention platform that attaches one detector to each of the five…

Ghostline is an edge AI field copilot for military operators working in denied, contested, or comms-degraded environments where cloud tools, GPS, and command…

Integrated edge-compute intel sharing solution for C2 and operator kill-chain decision synthesis