Program Brief // CY-2025
Autonomous software systems for defense, logistics, and critical infrastructure — engineered where failure is not an option.
Cyberdyne Software builds certified, mission-critical autonomy stacks and real-time control systems for environments where human latency costs lives and dollars. Our software has logged 14M+ operational hours across unmanned platforms, port automation, and SCADA-hardened infrastructure without a single mission-aborting fault.
Platform // Athena Autonomy SDK
The certified middleware layer between raw sensor input and platform effectors.
Athena is not a black-box AI service. It is a deterministic, SOSPA-aligned autonomy stack engineered for MIL-STD-882E and DO-178C Level B deployments. Five layers compose every mission profile — from perception through to the vehicle or plant adapter — and every layer is independently testable on Hardware-in-the-Loop rigs in our Arlington integration lab.
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Perception
Sensor ingestion across EO/IR, LiDAR, radar, AIS, and acoustic streams. Time-synchronised, confidence-tagged, and compliant with STANAG 4586 payload interfaces.
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Fusion & World Model
Probabilistic world-state estimation with deterministic replay. Supports OMS-compliant data bus interchange and SOSPA service contracts out of the box.
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Planning
Behaviour-tree and contingency planning with bounded-cost guarantees. Mission-level reasoning paired with reactive low-level control — no opaque ML inference in the safety-critical loop.
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Mission Manager
Operator-in-the-loop command, ROE enforcement, abort handling, and audit logging. Every state transition is recorded and exportable for post-mission forensics.
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Vehicle / Plant Adapter
Hardware abstraction for USVs, UGVs, fixed plant, and rail PTC overlays. The 47 programs that adopted Athena since 2019 reported a 67% reduction in integration time.
SENSORS▼
01Perception
02Fusion & World Model
03Planning
04Mission Manager
05Vehicle / Plant Adapter
▼EFFECTORS
Operational Record // FY-2024
The headline numbers a procurement officer copies into a source-selection justification.
Every figure below is drawn from Cyberdyne's filed quarterly operational disclosures, our NAVSEA contract performance reports, and the 36-month rolling availability audit of 9,300+ deployed edge nodes. We publish them because they are the figures our customers have already verified.
Unmanned and semi-autonomous platforms running Athena, spanning surface, ground, sub-surface, and fixed-plant installations.
Source: Athena SDK telemetry registry, 31 Dec 2024Measured availability across 9,300+ deployed edge nodes over the trailing 36 months — five nines and change.
Source: 36-month rolling availability audit, 2022–2024Class-A fault events resulting in mission abort across the full operational record. Verified by independent CMMI Level 3 audit.
Source: Independent fault register, cleared CMMI L3 review 2024| Metric | Value | Period | Source |
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| Allied nations operating Athena | 19 | As of Q4 2024 | Public release disclosures |
| Programs of record awarded (sole-source) | 12 | Since 2021 | Contract awards register |
| Deployed edge nodes | 9,300+ | Trailing 36 mo. | Availability audit 2022–2024 |
| Average integration-time reduction | 67% | 2019–2024 | 47 adopting programs, internal study |
| Inc. 5000 consecutive years | 4 | 2021–2024 | Inc. magazine listing |
HIL Lab, 1320 N Courthouse Rd — Q4 2024
Section 03 // Facility & Clearance
Cleared to build. Cleared to receive. Cleared to deliver.
Every defense and critical-infrastructure buyer asks the same gatekeeping question first: can this vendor accept classified work, hold the people, and pass an audit? The short answer is yes — and the documentation is on file.
- Facility22,000 sq ft integration & HIL lab, Arlington, VA
- Personnel380 cleared; 71% holding active DoD TS/SCI
- SCIFOn-site, ICD-705 compliant
- CMMILevel 3, cleared 2024 with zero major non-conformities
- ISO 27001:2022Cleared 2024, surveillance audit clean
- Retention94% in 2024 — 2.4× the defense-industrial sector average
Section 04 // Standards & Seats
The certifications and consortium seats that qualify Cyberdyne for sole-source and direct-award consideration.
Every mark below is the badge a contracts officer checks before authorizing a vendor for a classified or safety-critical program of record. We hold the originals, we renew on schedule, and we publish the audit letters on request under NDA.
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MIL-STD-882E
System Safety
Software designed, verified, and deployed against the DoD System Safety Standard. Tailored for unmanned and autonomy programs.
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DO-178C
Level BAviation Software
Design assurance for airborne systems — the only mid-tier vendor with STK/SOSPA middleware certified to this level.
Verified 2024 -
SOSPA /
STKSensor & Platform Middleware
Compliant with the U.S. Navy's Sensor to Task / Service-Oriented Sensor Platform Architecture service contracts.
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OMS
Open Mission Systems
Founding member of the OMS consortium; contributor to the Autonomy Stack Working Group at NDIA since 2019.
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CMMI L3
Process Maturity
Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 3, cleared 2024 with zero major non-conformities across 12 process areas.
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ISO
27001Information Security
ISO 27001:2022 — Information Security Management Systems, cleared 2024 with surveillance audit clean.
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NATO
ACTTrusted Autonomy Partner
Selected by NATO Allied Command Transformation as a Trusted Autonomy Partner in 2022, with active tasking.
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DIU CSO
Commercial Solutions Opening
2023 Defense Innovation Unit Autonomy Track winner, selected from 214 competing vendors.
Won 2023
Section 05 // Lineage
The technical provenance behind the program.
Cyberdyne was founded in 2014 by engineers from Skunk Works and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, in a single room above a hardware store in Rosslyn. Eleven years later the company is cleared, audited, and sole-source-awarded on twelve programs of record — but the lineage of the founders still sets the technical bar.
Founding & Lineage
Founded 2014 in Arlington, Virginia by former Skunk Works and Johns Hopkins APL engineers. Built around the conviction that autonomous systems for defense and critical infrastructure demanded deterministic, certifiable middleware — not research-grade machine learning wrapped in a service.
- Headquartered at 1320 N Courthouse Rd, Suite 900, Arlington, VA 22201
- Cleared facility with on-site SCIF since 2019
- 22,000 sq ft integration and HIL lab facility
Growth & Recognition
From 47 employees in 2018 to a 380-person cleared organization in Q4 2024 — a 41% CAGR. Recognised on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies for four consecutive years (2021–2024) and featured in Aviation Week & Space Technology's 'Top 25 Defense Tech Companies to Watch' (2024).
- Inc. 5000 — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Aviation Week Top 25 Defense Tech Companies to Watch — 2024
- Breaking Defense Acquisition Innovation Awards — 2023
Sole-Source Awards & Partnerships
Awarded a $48.7M sole-source IDIQ contract by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in March 2023 for the Unmanned Surface Vessel family. Sole-source on 12 programs of record since 2021, including the Navy USV program and a Class I rail operator's PTC overlay. Selected by NATO Allied Command Transformation as a Trusted Autonomy Partner in 2022.
- NAVSEA $48.7M IDIQ — March 2023
- NATO ACT Trusted Autonomy Partner — 2022
- DIU Commercial Solutions Opening winner (Autonomy Track) — 2023, 214 vendors
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Engagements begin with a 60-minute technical scoping call under NDA.