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Auterion profile

Q: Where can I research Auterion directly?

Go to the primary sources: DroneXL: Auterion Series B , SOFREP: 33,000 Auterion kits for Ukraine . Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.

By Jonathan Tauzerus · reviewed against primary sources · updated October 2, 2026.

Auterion is a privately held defense software company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, that develops operating systems, mission computers, and swarm strike engines for autonomous military drones and robotic vehicles.

What Auterion does

Auterion sells operating system software and modular mission computers for autonomous military drones rather than manufacturing dedicated airframes. Auterion supplies AuterionOS, a commercial distribution of the open-source PX4 autopilot software, alongside physical Skynode S and Skynode N computing units to integrate guidance, computer vision, and communication systems directly into unmanned systems. Through its Nemyx swarm strike engine, Auterion links aircraft built by different manufacturers into coordinated units, allowing a single operator to command multiple autonomous strike systems at once. Under the Artemis development program, Auterion configures one-way attack drones to operate across ranges of 100 to 1,000 kilometers in electronic-warfare-heavy environments where satellite navigation is degraded or denied.

The product lines that define the company for research purposes:

AuterionOS
Skynode S
Skynode N
Nemyx swarm strike engine
Artemis program

This profile is qualitative by design. It carries no share price, no price target, no valuation multiple, and no rating — those change faster than any page can honestly track, and the filings linked below are the authoritative source for them.

Auterion drone lineup

The current public product record does not identify a complete aircraft lineup.

No complete-aircraft offering is catalogued for this company; it is tracked here as an unmanned-systems enabler.

Statuses are editorial classifications from the company’s current public catalog: active means currently presented for sale, delivery, or program work; development means publicly disclosed but not a mature production offering; legacy means retained for historical or installed-fleet coverage.

Recent contracts & awards

A dated log of the specific contracts, orders, funding, and deployments reported for Auterion, each tied to its primary source. This is a record of what was announced — a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, so read each source before treating a figure as revenue. No figure appears here unless a source reported it.

ContractJul 1, 2026$50M
Department of War awards Auterion $50 million for 33,000 AI drone guidance kits for Ukraine
In July, the U.S. Department of War awarded Auterion a $50 million contract to supply 33,000 AI-based drone guidance kits for integration into locally built Ukrainian drones. Because the announcement identifies the award date only as July without specifying the contract year, researchers should examine primary procurement notices to confirm the exact award date, delivery schedules, and obligated outlays before treating the public figure as fully disbursed capital.
SOFREP: Auterion 33,000 Skynode AI strike kits headed to Ukraine

Where Auterion sits in the value chain

Auterion is an enabler: it supplies inputs to the companies that build complete systems, so its demand is spread across many platforms instead of concentrated in any single program.

Its disclosed activity spans aerial drones. That placement is the single most useful thing to fix in your head before reading any coverage, because the same headline means different things at different layers: a large platform award is transformative for a pure-play, material but diluted for a diversified contractor, and only indirectly relevant to a component supplier whose exposure arrives later as build-rate demand. Retail coverage routinely applies one story to all three layers at once. For the layer-by-layer comparison across the sector, see the drone stocks research shortlist and the list of publicly traded drone companies.

What to watch

The signals worth tracking are structural, not price-based — they tell you whether the business is changing shape, which is what eventually shows up in the numbers.

Operational deployment and field integration rates of the 33,000 AI-based drone guidance kits awarded under the $50 million U.S. Department of War contract for locally built Ukrainian drones.
Hardware and software milestones for the Artemis one-way attack drone program following its October 2025 program finalization under the Defense Innovation Unit.
Flight evaluations and cross-platform live-fire trials of the Nemyx swarm strike engine, building on the January 13 Camp Blanding range demonstration where one operator directed three drones armed with Kraken Kinetics warheads to strike three targets simultaneously.
Capital deployment and engineering expansion across facilities in Arlington, Munich, and Zurich following the September 2025 $130 million Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

How to research Auterion

Every question below has one authoritative source, and using the wrong source is how most retail research goes wrong.

Research question	Where the answer lives	What to look for
Is there anything to buy?	SEC EDGAR full-text search	Whether any registration statement exists at all — absent one, there is no public security.
Is the government work real?	Official DoD contract announcements	Awarding service and scope of work, rather than a company-issued announcement.
What is the acquisition pathway?	DIU and DARPA program pages	Whether the work runs through non-traditional agreements or a conventional program of record.
How would exposure even work?	Fund holdings disclosures	Whether any listed vehicle discloses a stake — indirect exposure is usually thin and unstated.

For reporting on Auterion's $130 million Series B funding round, corporate valuation, and software-led defense strategy, consult the DroneXL analysis of Auterion's swarm technology.
For tactical parameters of the January 13 multi-target live-fire test at Camp Blanding, review the Inside Unmanned Systems report on Auterion's swarm demonstration.
To review the procurement of 33,000 AI guidance strike kits, read the SOFREP report on Auterion's Ukraine guidance contract, noting that researchers must verify the specific award year and obligated funding against official Department of War records.
For historical context on corporate origins in Zurich and background on founders Lorenz Meier and Kevin Sartori, refer to the Wikipedia reference entry for Auterion alongside the Robotics Press corporate profile of Auterion.

One failure mode is worth naming explicitly: a company announcement describing a "selection", "award", or "partnership" is not the same as obligated money, and the two are easy to conflate because they use the same vocabulary. Check the official record before treating either as revenue. Our full approach is documented on the methodology page.

Auterion FAQ

What does Auterion do?

Auterion sells operating system software and modular mission computers for autonomous military drones rather than manufacturing dedicated airframes.

Is Auterion publicly traded?

Auterion is not publicly traded, so there is no ticker to buy. Any claim otherwise should be verified against SEC EDGAR before it is believed.

What should investors watch with Auterion?

Operational deployment and field integration rates of the 33,000 AI-based drone guidance kits awarded under the $50 million U.S. Department of War contract for locally built Ukrainian drones.

Where can I research Auterion directly?

Go to the primary sources: DroneXL: Auterion Series B, SOFREP: 33,000 Auterion kits for Ukraine. Avoid aggregator summaries when the filing itself is available.