Booz Allen Hamilton announced today that its corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, has invested strategically in Scout AI to modernize legacy robotic systems.
To fulfill the Department of Defense (DOD) priorities and needs, Scout AI offers a physical AI system powered by FURY, a defense-specific Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model engineered to transform unmanned systems and robotics into intelligent and autonomous agents. And by integrating advanced AI into defense robotics, Scout AI brings reasoning and control to a wide spectrum of uncrewed systems across ground and air warfighting domains, quickly expanding capabilities into maritime and space.
This deal will power new autonomous solutions for DOD and modernize many existing systems, ensuring the U.S. military can make fast, more accurate decisions in any environment.
Scout AI’s unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) utilize an advanced autonomy architecture that allows warfighters to command them using simple human language prompts. The models Scout AI is building will enable a new era of better human-machine teaming with significant cost savings.
The funding follows critical efforts by Booz Allen to speed defense tech development, enable cost savings, and modernize systems necessary to achieve a U.S. strategic advantage. Booz Allen recently made its largest strategic investment to date in Shield AI’s F-1 strategic funding round, designed to help expand the deployment of Hivemind Enterprise and empower the industrial base to build more autonomy products. In addition, Booz Allen collaborated with Carnegie Robotics on co-development efforts.
KEY QUOTES:
“As a strategic investor, Booz Allen is hyper-focused on fast-tracking results through private sector innovation and bringing capabilities that will disrupt the federal technology market. Scout AI’s technology will play a pivotal role in outpacing emerging threats with the realization of uncrewed systems, specifically in communications-constrained environments.”
- Randy Yamada, Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton
“Our goal is to enable robotic mass for the U.S. military through intelligent AI and cost-effective, high-rate manufactured hardware. By combining our cutting-edge VLA system with Booz Allen’s deep expertise in AI and defense, we are paving the way for a new generation of intelligent systems that will enable more effective, adaptable, and real-time decision-making in complex environments.”
- Colby Adcock, CEO of Scout AI
“Scout AI’s ambitious team has a giant vision—develop and deploy physical AI for defense applications. Leveraging vision-language-action (VLA) models, Scout AI’s approach to autonomy enables versatile robotic systems that better handle the long tail of edge cases present on the battlefield while also offering a more human-centric user experience for robotic control. Service members can use text and voice prompts to command and collaborate with their robotic teammates. We invested in Scout AI’s seed round because we believe physical AI is a force multiplier for the DOD and is harkening the future of human-machine teaming.”
- James Gadea, Booz Allen Ventures
