BRAIN flight computer selected for counter-UAS system; contract drives near-term revenue and deepens GuideTech’s customer pipeline

Palladyne AI (NASDAQ:PDYN), a U.S.-based defense and industrial technology company delivering embodied AI-powered collaborative autonomy solutions, advanced avionics, precision-manufactured components, UAVs, and advanced aerospace design services, today announced that its subsidiary, GuideTech, has secured a new $2.3 million contract with a defense prime contractor to deploy its BRAIN flight computer and FLEX flight software framework in support of development, testing, and deployment of their low-cost kinetic counter-UAS interceptor system.

This contract represents a direct product sale of GuideTech’s BRAIN hardware and related software capabilities, with potential for follow-on production orders. GuideTech’s early support of the customer included a pre-integrated digital and avionics toolchain: BRAIN flight computer, FLEX flight software and simulation capabilities, and Reveal flight performance and analytics platform, to help quantify key design trades early and accelerate integration and verification enabling rapid design and test of the system which is now flight tested.