DEEP HORIZON

The command layer for autonomous warfare.

Air. Land. Sea. One command.

Deep Horizon builds Varden, a sovereign command and mission-autonomy system. It brings every sensor, shooter and soldier in the area of operations into one picture, under one commander.

Why we exist

Deep Horizon

Machines are now cheap enough to field by the thousand. Command has not caught up.

Most militaries still assign an operator to every aircraft and every drone. That works for a handful of machines and fails long before a thousand. The limit on how many machines a force can use is now the number of people it takes to run them.

Software sets how these machines fight, and software can be changed in days. A force that can update its machines between missions will beat one that waits years for the next procurement cycle. We build the layer that gives a force both: command at scale, and the speed to keep improving it.

Product

By Deep Horizon

Varden

One system for every domain. Varden works across manufacturers and autopilots, so a force commands the machines it already has alongside the ones it buys next, from a handful to more than ten thousand.

  • AirUAS · Loitering munitions · AEW

    Unmanned aircraft of every class, from micro to MALE, VTOL and fixed-wing. Cued by airborne early warning and air-defence radar.

  • LandUGV · Sensor masts · Dismounts

    Ground vehicles, unattended sensors, EO/IR and radar masts. Soldiers on foot become nodes in the network.

  • MaritimeUSV · UUV · Sonar

    Surface and underwater vessels for littoral surveillance and port and harbour defence, cued by coastal radar and sonar.

  • Space-readySpace ISR · SATCOM

    Takes in space-based surveillance and satellite communications today, with room to extend to orbital assets.

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The kill chain

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From sensor to shooter in seconds.

Today a target passes from sensor to shooter over voice nets, separate consoles and several echelons. Varden runs the whole chain in one system, with engagement held to the commander's rules of engagement.

  1. Find

    Any sensor, any domain, watching the areas that matter.

  2. Fix

    The nearest suitable machine is sent to confirm.

  3. Track

    Custody is held and handed between machines and domains.

  4. Target

    The right weapon is paired to the target and deconflicted.

  5. Engage

    Every engagement carries its full evidence, within the rules set.

  6. Assess

    Damage is assessed and the next task assigned.

Hours

Legacy command: voice nets, consoles and echelons.

Seconds

Varden: one system from sensor to shooter.

Contested environments

Built to fight degraded

Built for the fight where links fail.

  • Comms denied

    The mission continues when communications are jammed, intermittent or lost, and reconciles when they return.

  • GNSS denied

    Navigation and targeting hold without satellite positioning.

  • No single point of failure

    Machines connect peer to peer. No one node holds the whole picture, so no one loss takes it down.

  • Attrition

    When machines are lost, the force re-plans around them without waiting on a ground station.

Contact

Briefings

See it in the field.

Demonstrations on request

briefings@deephorizon.io

For defence forces, governments, industry partners and investors. The full Varden capability sheet is available for official discussion.

Engineers: careers@deephorizon.io