Arkeus Redefines Autonomous Perception at SOF Week 2026

Smoke, dust, haze and electronic interference are the environments where autonomous systems are needed most, and the same ones where traditional sensors fail.

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At SOF Week 2026 in Tampa, Arkeus CEO Simon Olsen and former SOAR operator Patrick McCann sat down with Aviation Week to address a challenge that is rapidly becoming the defining constraint on autonomous capability: perception.

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As platforms proliferate across land, air, and maritime domains, the bottleneck is no longer compute or connectivity, it's the ability to see clearly, understand what matters and act decisively in real time. In degraded and denied environments, that capability gap becomes a mission gap.

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Arkeus builds sensing systems engineered specifically for AI, designed to maintain situational awareness where conventional sensors go blind and to deliver the data quality that machine perception requires at speed. The result is faster, more confident decision-making for operators, even when conditions are at their worst.

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Watch the full Aviation Week interview here.