ARA to Showcase Collaborative Autonomous Breaching Capability at XPONENTIAL 2026

ARA’s Neya Systems will showcase elements of its autonomous breaching capability in Booth 14023  at XPONENTIAL 2026, taking place May 12-14 in Detroit.

This integrated solution, which also includes platforms and technologies from American RheinmetallAM General; Hendrick Technical SolutionsPersistent Systems, LLCSwarmbotics AI, and several other Tier 1 uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) and uncrewed ground vehicle (UGV) manufacturers, combines Neya’s and ARA’s advanced autonomy stack and multi-asset, one-to-many mission orchestration solution with best-in-class air and ground platforms to enable large-scale breaching lane clearance.

As one of the most high-risk operations on the battlefield, breaching remains a mission where speed, coordination, and force protection are essential. The autonomous breaching capabilities on display at XPONENTIAL are orchestrated via the Mission Planning and Management System (MPMS), which enables a single soldier to command and supervise a wide array of heterogenous robotic platforms, sensors, and actions to conduct complex autonomous breaching in contested environments. Ground platforms will be integrated with the N-Drive™ autonomy stack, which provides reliable and flexible autonomy behaviors, including guarded teleoperation; high-speed waypoint navigation with active obstacle detection and avoidance (ODOA); and vegetation and negative obstacle detection. 

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About ARA

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) was founded in 1979, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to offer science and engineering research to solve problems of national importance. ARA delivers leading-edge products and innovative solutions for national defense, energy, homeland security, aerospace, healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing. With over 2,000 employee-owners at locations in the U.S. and Canada, ARA offers a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil engineering, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, biomedical engineering, environmental technologies, and blast testing and measurement.