Palladyne AI’s GuideTech selected for AFRL’s Relentless Wolfpack Industry Day

Palladyne AI (PDYN) announced that Palladyne AI subsidiary GuideTech was selected as one of only 14 companies invited to participate in the Relentless Wolfpack Industry Day, hosted by the Air Force Research Laboratory in collaboration with the Doolittle Institute on April 28-29, 2026. This AFRL invite only event brought together a select cohort of defense innovators and government stakeholders to accelerate the development and integration of next-generation operational capabilities, with a specific focus on networked collaborative autonomous weapon salvos. SwarmOS was included in the submission by a major Tier 1 defense prime and GuideTech. No other hardware agnostic autonomous swarming solutions participated. GuideTech’s invitation places it alongside some of the most consequential names in the defense industrial base creating a deliberate alignment of cutting-edge technology providers with mission-critical government priorities. The event is structured to foster direct collaboration between government and industry, with each participating company contributing to focused capability briefings, structured discussions, and interactive Q&A sessions with AFRL stakeholders and acquisition decision-makers. As part of this select cohort, GuideTech and its affiliates under Palladyne AI will leverage GuideTech’s flight-tested, low-cost SwarmStrike cruise missile alongside Palladyne’s flight-proven SwarmOS collaborative autonomy software to deliver an open standards-based collaborative autonomy cruise missile solution. This integrated platform is engineered for interoperable, networked salvos capable of combining effects on target, incorporating recent battle data through rapid software updates, and operating alongside weapons from other vendors in a complex, contested battlespace, precisely the operational environment that defines modern multi-domain warfare.