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The Technology
Haziel is a frontier research lab building AI to support missions in contested environments. Contested environments consist of bad weather, the arctic, high altitudes, and GPS/GNSS-denial from electronic warfare (EW). When present, UAVs, USVs, subsea vessels, effects and critical national infrastructure cannot operate using standard control systems. Haziel's first product, "Godwit", tackles the high-altitude domain, using autonomous weather-based navigation to provide communications and alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (APNT). Haziel's AI can hold High Altitude Balloons (HABs) over a fixed location, using changing wind conditions at different altitudes. These platforms create resilient communications and PNT infrastructure independent of conventional ground networks and space-based systems. Haziel reports that it ran a six-day simulated station-keeping demonstration in Colorado in May 2026 at approximately 18.5 kilometres altitude, using wind field data and AI rapid forecast.
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The Operational Challenge
We cannot assume uncontested access on the battlefield, to our supply chains and to critical national infrastructure. Contested environments mean a system or asset can suffer from degraded communications, GPS/GNSS denial, and this is caused by difficult terrain, weather, and EW. When contested environments pose a threat to connectivity, they threaten trillions in systemic risk. For example, Electronic warfare (EW), anti-satellite weapons, GPS jamming could cost billions in R&D and replacement of legacy systems. Cyber-physical threats to communications, such as subsea cable/pipeline sabotage would cause billions of dollars per nation. Communications infrastructure is valuable precisely because so many other capabilities depend upon it, which also makes that infrastructure an obvious point of vulnerability. Haziel defends platforms to EW, weather, jamming and spoofing using AI models trained on 1PTB of weather data and 4BN rows of EW data. Rather than fighting the jamming environment directly, the AI simulates any combination of weather and EW to harden platforms and components to be inherently resistant to the EW threats degrading conventional options.
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Why It Matters
The opportunity expands as military forces become more distributed and more dependent upon data, and more exposed to jamming and GNSS-denial as a result. Autonomous vehicles, sensors, command systems and deployed personnel all require ways to exchange information, yet increasing the number of connected systems also increases the consequences of losing the networks connecting them. The systems that can keep functioning through jamming and GNSS-denial, not just resist it passively, are the ones worth building around, and Haziel's AI-driven navigation is the core enabling technology behind that resilience. Haziel's intended applications include resilient tactical communications and PNT, satellite backup, persistent ISR relay, autonomous-system backhaul, border monitoring and temporary regional communications, all downstream of that navigation capability.
