BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2026--
On March 20, 2026, Autonodyne LLC, an autonomy software company, successfully executed two-ship Collaborative Mission Autonomy flight test demonstrations with NAVAIR Air Test & Evaluation Squadron Two Four (UX-24) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The flights – which demonstrated multiple layers of Autonodyne's autonomy software in live flight – marked the delivery of an integrated solution to provide safe mission autonomy test and evaluation.
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During the exercise, Autonodyne and NAVAIR completed several flights with two RQ-23A TigerShark unmanned air vehicles using a government-owned autonomy architecture. The flights were autonomous from launch to terminal recovery area, with Autonodyne executing autonomous launch commands, route commands, and a two-vehicle counter-rotating combat air patrol (CAP).
This demonstration was part of a contracted program between NAVAIR and Autonodyne designed to expand the government’s portfolio of platforms compatible with Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA), and establish an enduring, affordable, safe testbed for Mission Autonomy.
The flights integrated several products from Autonodyne’s autonomy software suite, including Edge Mission Autonomy software, Nest Ground Control Station software, and Sentinel Mission Assurance software.
Edge demonstrated multi-agent autonomy, providing the link for the RQ-23As to share information, and Sentinel executed all safety-critical validation internally, validating its ability to streamline autonomy development with faster iteration, lower costs, and more frequent flight testing. Autonodyne's Nest Ground Control Software (GCS) provides operators, like NAVAIR, with a unified interface to plan and execute missions and monitor unmanned air vehicles in real time. The GCS supports single- and multi-ship operations for autonomous vehicles across Groups 1–5 and is A-GRA compliant.
Autonodyne and NAVAIR will continue to work together to advance the use of Mission Autonomy for appropriate real-world scenarios.
About Autonodyne, LLC
Autonodyne LLC is a Boston-based, privately held autonomy software company specializing in collaborative autonomy, manned-unmanned teaming, and autonomy architectures. Founded in 2014, Autonodyne has built a suite of interoperable platform-agnostic solutions to enable autonomy across domains and led industry development and implementation of A-GRA protocols. This includes command-and-control software, pilot vehicle interfaces, and collaborative mission autonomy designed for Group 1-5 unmanned air systems and collaborative combat aircraft. Autonodyne’s team brings expertise across defense, engineering, aviation, flight test, and software development.
NAVAIR and Autonodyne conduct Collaborative Mission Autonomy flight test demonstrations at Patuxent River.
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Aid workers rushed supplies Thursday to the center of Congo's outbreak of a rare type of Ebola virus while beleaguered medical personnel struggled with a lack of equipment, a distrustful population and armed groups in a volatile region.
A white cargo plane with aid donated by the European Union delivered masks, gloves, boots and medications — all of which are in short supply — to the northeastern town of Bunia at the heart of the outbreak in Congo's Ituri province. U.N.-branded forklifts lifted several cases into trucks.
Health workers with scant supplies have been struggling to contain an outbreak of the Bundibugyo virus, a kind of Ebola that has no approved treatment or vaccine. In some areas, doctors have resorted to wearing expired medical masks while treating suspected patients.
Dangers faced by health workers have been heightened by anger among residents over the stringent medical protocols for dealing with the bodies of victims, which clash with local burial rites. Residents have launched at least three attacks against health centers in Ituri province.
Aid donated by the EU is expected to arrive in batches over the next eight days, Jérôme Kouachi, head of emergency operations at UNICEF in Congo, told The Associated Press.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was on his way to Congo to see the efforts first-hand efforts. The WHO has declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, in the hope of ramping up aid.
The United States on Thursday said it is increasing its aid to Congo and Uganda by $80 million, bringing its commitment to more than $112 million since the outbreak.
The additional money would pay for personal protective equipment for health care workers, Ebola test kits, support for health screening at airports and contact tracing, the U.S. State Department said.
The Congolese government has confirmed more than 1,000 suspected cases, with at least 220 deaths, since it declared an outbreak on May 15. But the virus had been spreading undetected for weeks, and the WHO suspects it is much larger than what has been reported.
The virus has also reached neighboring Uganda, which has confirmed seven cases and one death.
On Wednesday, the Congolese government said the first survivor to recover from the virus had left a health center.
“We are trying to catch up,” Congo Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner said earlier this week. “It is a race against the clock.”
The response on the ground has been hampered by multiple challenges, including customs' red tape, insufficient storage facilities, bad roads and weak telecommunications, humanitarian agencies said in a report on Thursday.
Tedros on Wednesday called for a ceasefire in a region where armed groups have staged violent attacks for decades. “We cannot build community trust or isolate the sick while bombs are falling,” he said.
Tucked in the northeastern part of Congo close to the Ugandan border, Ituri province has been reeling from attacks by the Allied Democratic Force, a rebel group allied with the Islamic State group, and a coalition of ethnic militias. In early May, the ADF killed at least 40 people and burned several homes in Ituri.
The illness has also been reported in two Congolese provinces south of Ituri — North Kivu and South Kivu, where the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group controls many key cities, including Goma and Bukavu. The rebels have reported two cases. The region’s main airport in Goma, which doubles as a staging ground for humanitarian efforts into the region, has been closed since January 2025, when M23 seized the city.
The conflict has precipitated one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with at least 7 million people displaced in eastern Congo.
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Ope Adetayo reported from Lagos, Nigeria. Mathew Lee contributed from Washington.
Workers offload medical and emergency supplies donated by European Union to support frontline workers in fighting Ebola upon arrival at the national airport in Bunia , Congo. Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Workers offload medical and emergency supplies donated by European Union to support frontline workers in fighting Ebola upon arrival at the national airport in Bunia , Congo. Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Workers offload medical and emergency supplies donated by European Union to support frontline workers in fighting Ebola upon arrival at the national airport in Bunia, Congo. Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Workers offload medical and emergency supplies donated by European Union to support frontline workers in fighting Ebola upon arrival at the national airport in Bunia , Congo. Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Workers offload medical and emergency supplies donated by European Union to support frontline workers in fighting Ebola upon arrival at the national airport in Bunia, Congo. Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
