Leidos, Havoc Integrate Capabilities to Advance Maritime and Air Autonomy

April 20, 2026

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Havoc are partnering to integrate unmanned systems with collaborative autonomy technology, enabling a single operator to command and coordinate fleets of platforms across vast, contested areas.

The companies plan to showcase these capabilities during a operational validation in the fourth quarter of 2026, where unmanned surface and aerial vehicles are expected to operate under a single autonomy system. The event is intended to provide a clear preview of how collaborative autonomous operations can be executed at scale in real-world conditions.

Elements of Havoc’s collaborative autonomy software will be integrated with Leidos’ Autonomous Vessel Architecture (LAVA) on select platforms, beginning with Sea Archer, the small unmanned surface vessel. This combined approach is designed to enable coordinated operations across systems while seeking to optimize performance, integration speed and cost for specific mission applications. The collaboration aims to define and deliver the architecture for an autonomous battlespace, where distributed systems sense, decide and act together across air, surface and sub-surface domains, even in contested and communications-degraded environments.

“The future of warfare will be defined by how quickly and effectively systems can operate together across domains,” said Leidos Defense President Cindy Gruensfelder. “The Leidos and Havoc team will work to deliver integrated, mission-ready capability that gives commanders more options and operational advantage.”

“Leidos is a strong partner because their vessels and software are proven and trusted,” said Paul Lwin, Co-founder and CEO of Havoc. “By integrating Havoc's autonomy across those platforms, we expect to compress integration timelines from months to weeks and move systems into production in days, not months. That speed, applied to Leidos' breadth of platforms, is what makes this partnership so significant for defense customers.”

This partnership combines Leidos’ proven maritime platforms and systems integration expertise with Havoc’s collaborative autonomy capabilities. Depending on the mission, solutions will incorporate Leidos, Havoc, or a combination of both software architectures to deliver scalable capability across existing and future force structures. These systems are designed to operate together to help expand reach, improve coordination and reduce risk to human operators.

Source : Leidos