Ondas and Palantir Launch Regna AI to Develop Sovereign Artificial Intelligence for Defence Operations

Ondas and Palantir Launch Regna AI to Develop Sovereign Artificial Intelligence for Defence Operations

Ondas Inc. (NASDAQ:ONDS) and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) have announced the establishment of Regna AI, a privately held company focused on developing mission-specific artificial intelligence systems for defence, security and other operational environments.

The new business will initially be wholly owned by Ondas and will use Palantir's technology platform to enable customers to train, customise and deploy AI models within infrastructure under their own control.

According to the companies, Regna AI is designed to address growing demand for sovereign AI capabilities, allowing government and commercial customers to retain ownership and control of sensitive mission data and the models developed using that information.

Ondas will become Regna AI's first customer, deploying specialised AI models to support autonomous mission orchestration at the edge, where computing systems operate directly alongside equipment and sensors rather than relying exclusively on centralised cloud infrastructure.

Palantir will contribute model-training infrastructure and forward-deployed engineering support, providing technical resources for the development and implementation of customer-specific AI systems.

The initiative builds on an existing collaboration between the two companies involving SkyWeaver C4I, an open-architecture command, control, communications, computers and intelligence programme.

SkyWeaver C4I is designed to integrate surveillance capabilities across multiple operational environments, ranging from stratospheric platforms to tactical systems operating closer to the ground.

Regna AI will extend this approach by developing AI models intended to operate across a range of hardware platforms, including unmanned aerial vehicles, stratospheric balloons, ground vehicles, surface vessels and command-and-control systems.

The companies said the technology is being designed for deployment in environments where communications may be disrupted, degraded, intermittent or otherwise restricted.

By allowing AI models to operate on local hardware, Regna AI aims to support mission execution and decision-making without requiring continuous access to external networks or centralised computing resources.

Eric Brock, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ondas, said maintaining control over AI infrastructure and operational data was an important consideration for government customers.

"No government should have to build its AI strategy on models or data infrastructure it does not control," Brock said.