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LEAP AETHER

Launched Effects Autonomy Platform

Plan, rehearse, and validate multi-vendor launched effects and UAS missions before anything launches. LEAP is the vendor-neutral mission layer that turns commander’s intent into an executable plan, proves it faster than real time, and hands it to the systems that fly it.

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Many vendors. One mission.

Autonomous systems are reshaping the battlefield, but planning missions across multiple vendors, aircraft, and autonomy platforms remains manual and fragmented. Missions are built in slides and proprietary controllers, with no way to rehearse, coordinate with manned aviation, or learn from past operations. Commanders accept risk without evidence. LEAP changes that with one integrated plan, realistic mission rehearsal, and actionable evidence to support decisions.

  

Plan it. Rehearse it. Prove it.

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Plan as one package
Build the mission across every asset at once: team composition, routes, launch points, timing, payload employment, airspace, and keep-out zones. LEAP ingests mission data in open GIS formats, including KML and KMZ, and mission plans from TheIncLab’s Nyx and Eris platforms. It can then deconflict the package in four dimensions with the manned aircraft that share the airspace using the Kronos platform.
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Rehearse faster than real time
Run the mission in minutes, not hours, with each vendor’s own autonomy behavior in the loop. Rehearse it under the conditions it will meet: contested communications, GPS-denied navigation, electronic attack, and aircraft lost along the way. Then break the plan on purpose and confirm the package still finishes the task.
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Decide on evidence
Compare courses of action for feasibility, risk, timing, asset allocation, and expected effects. See where the mission depends on a human decision before launch, and accept risk to mission and risk to force on evidence rather than assumption. After the mission, play it back against the plan.

  

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Built to stay neutral
LEAP connects any platform, autonomy model, controller, or payload through adapters on the vendor’s own interfaces. Each asset stays its own product. Nothing locks a unit to a vendor, platform, or runtime, and new assets onboard quickly. No vendor is granted exclusivity. Interfaces are open and published; the core is TheIncLab commercial software.
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Built for the fight
A human stays on the loop, and a human is in the loop for launch authorization, material plan changes, and effects decisions. The system recommends. The operator decides. LEAP runs in the browser, deploys as a container from enterprise cloud to the tactical edge, and rehearses faster than real time on a Toughbook or tablet with no reachback compute. Mission state survives lost connectivity and resyncs when it returns. Every change syncs to every screen with a record of who changed what. Deployed and accredited in Government cloud and edge environments.
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For autonomy, platform, and payload vendors
Integrate once and reach those that run LEAP. Vendors use LEAP as a test bed to put an autonomy model, platform, or payload through the same planning and rehearsal workflow the customer will use, generate performance evidence under identical conditions, and demonstrate it to buyers before a sale. Integration and annual certification keep the adapter current as both products evolve. Contact us about integration.
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Proven with the force
Recently announced, LEAP was selected by the U.S. Army as one of nine applications for Next Generation Command and Control, fielding first with I Corps, after a year of experimentation that included Project Convergence. It has been demonstrated in integrated manned-unmanned planning and rehearsal events with autonomy models and platforms from multiple vendors, and it is in use with Army aviation and launched effects users today.

  

Rehearse first. Launch with evidence.

Speed. Scalability. Adaptability. LEAP Aether shortens the kill chain from commander’s intent to launch by fusing data, effects, and decisions into one validated plan, then hands that plan to the systems that execute it, from the enterprise to the edge.

Rugged laptop running LEAP mission planning next to a handheld drone controller
Service members wearing headsets working at mission planning workstations
Soldiers reviewing a LEAP mission plan on a large display