Products & ServicesEvent: September 5, 2026
Shield AI brought back the AVEN aircraft for X-BAT, a vertical flight project built on the GE Aerospace AVEN prototype developed before the author was born.
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“GE Aerospace engineers built and flight-tested AVEN before I was born. Today, we're proud to bring it back to life for X-BAT”
— Shiva Vallabhaneni|Shield AI team
Company
Shield AI
Autonomy for the world.
- Industry
- Defense and Space Manufacturing
- Location
- San Diego, US
- Company size
- 1,909 employees
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide.
Founded 2015