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High-dynamic autonomy for defense
PUSH THE PLATFORM FURTHER
Autonomous systems should perform at the standard of your most elite operators. Code19 delivers high-dynamic autonomy for defense platforms to outpace, outmaneuver, and defeat robotic threats at scale.
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Maveric Interceptor
TRK active
Platform agnostic
vehicle, sensor, OR system
Direct award ready
AAL DevX Autonomy FINALIST
Active DoD engagements
NSWC Crane · OUSW (R&E)
Modular integration
Autonomy as a payload
The problem
The harder you push the platform, the harder autonomy becomes.
Speed
Maneuver
Changing trajectories
Adversarial behavior
As the environment becomes less predictable, autonomy has to do more than follow a path. It has to solve the control problem again and again in real time.
That means anticipating what happens next, adjusting continuously, and keeping the vehicle effective as the mission changes around it.
That is the class of problem Code19 was built to solve.
Physics is undefeated.
Performance is physical. Every contest comes down to who can use the physical world better.
Maveric AI
High-dynamic autonomy as a payload.
Maveric AI is Code19’s modular autonomy package that gives autonomous platforms the agility and responsiveness to perform at speed, against moving threats, at the limits of the hardware.
Using model predictive control, it continuously updates guidance as conditions change, so the system can keep solving the mission instead of relying on a fixed response. And because the autonomy is agnostic to the vehicle carrying it, Maveric AI can integrate with third-party platforms, sensors, and mission systems.
Add the capability without designing the mission around a single proprietary platform.
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INTERCEPT AUTONOMY
Pursue and intercept maneuvering threats with continuous adaptation.
SENSE AND EVADE
Evade one-way attack and ISR aircraft threats and continue the mission.
SEEKER MODEL DEVELOPMENT
Perception models tailored to sensors, threat set, and operating environment.
C-UAS DIGITAL PROVING GROUND
Assess mission tradeoffs and prioritize live testing in a simulated environment.
Across domains
Built for the edge.
The platform changes. The autonomy challenge does not. Maveric AI’s core approach is relevant wherever a system has to keep perceiving, predicting, maneuvering, and executing as conditions change — especially when continuous human control or a reliable comms link cannot be assumed.
Air
Autonomous flight where speed, maneuver, and a changing threat picture demand decisions on the vehicle without constant connection to an operator.
Intercept
Dynamic flight
Mission continuation
Ground
Uncrewed maneuver through changing terrain and conditions, with autonomy that can keep adapting when the route, obstacle picture, or mission changes.
Reconnaissance
Mobility
Logistics
Sea
Surface autonomy for fast, cluttered, and contested waters where a vessel must navigate, maneuver, or pursue without waiting for the shore.
Surface intercept
Littoral navigation
Escort
Space
On-orbit autonomy for relative motion and time-sensitive maneuver when distance, latency, or disrupted communications make ground control too slow.
Rendezvous
Responsive maneuver
Mission continuation
Applications shown illustrate where Code19’s high-dynamic autonomy approach may be relevant; they do not imply that every use case is currently fielded.
Why Code19
Machines win or lose in motion.
Continuous prediction + control
Maveric AI is designed for missions where the solution cannot be calculated once and followed. It keeps updating as the environment, target, and vehicle state change.
Proven at the performance edge
Code19 learned this control problem in professional autonomous racing, where split-second decisions and edge-of-envelope operation are the baseline.
Capability that travels
The autonomy is not tied to one vehicle. That gives programs and platform partners a path to apply the same core capability across different systems.
Maveric Interceptor
AI is the product. Interceptor is the proof.
Maveric Interceptor demonstrates Code19’s autonomy against a demanding counter-UAS mission: high-speed pursuit and intercept of maneuvering threats.
Built for fully autonomous launch, navigation, and intercept, the system is powered by our Maveric AI C-UAS autonomy suite and integrated with EchoDyne radar systems and Electric Jet Aircraft’s ArcSpear UAS. Maveric enables rapid detection, tracking, and engagement of robotic threats in contested environments.
It is proof that our high-dynamic autonomy can keep generating and controlling a new solution, even as the engagement evolves.
01 Target in view
02 Tracked approach
03 Closing view
Camp Atterbury, IN / September 2026 / Onboard test footage
Outcomes
Level up your autonomy.
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Extract more performance.
Get more speed, agility, and mission utility from the hardware already available.
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Take on harder mission geometry.
Pursue targets as trajectories, conditions, and engagement dynamics change.
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Preserve platform choice.
Apply Maveric AI across vehicles, sensors, and systems without platform lock.
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Learn at mission tempo.
Test in live conditions, refine quickly, and return improvements to the field faster.
Our heritage
Race-forged proving ground.
We developed Maveric AI in an environment where operating at the edge of platform performance is the baseline: autonomous racing.
Code19 runs the world’s first professional autonomous racing team — the closest civilian analogue to intercept — where autonomous vehicles must compete against maneuvering opponents at the aerodynamic limit. It is where we developed the predictive control, continuous adaptation, and real-time decision-making that now power our defense autonomy.
Racing is where we learned to close the gap between the model and the machine, accounting for latency, imperfect sensing, and vehicle dynamics in real time. That same development discipline now carries into defense: test fast, learn quickly, and keep pushing the limits.
Meet the team
People who push limits.
Veteran founders
45+ years combined military service
Proven robotics expertise
CEO
Lawrence Walter
M.S. Human Computer Interaction, Indiana Univ. Retired Army Counterintelligence.
CTO
Dr. Jacob Knaup
PhD Robotics, Georgia Tech. Autonomous systems & AI for uncertain environments.
CSO
Dr. Matt Flagg
PhD Computer Vision, Georgia Tech. Multi-view pose estimation. AI data verification.
CPO
O.G. Wells
M.S. Tech Innovation, Purdue. Technology GTM. Partnerships. Retired Army Intelligence Officer.
Partners
Trusted by those building the future of defense.
Prototyping Low Cost Interceptors
Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) Naval Surface Warfare Center - Crane
Capital Factory Portfolio Company (Austin, TX)
AAL DevX Autonomy FINALIST
Nvidia Inception
Microsoft Founders
AWS Frontier AI Startup
Bring us the hard problem.
How far could your platform go if the autonomy stopped holding it back?
Whether the starting point is a mission need, an existing platform, or a new integration challenge, we can help determine what high-dynamic autonomy makes possible.
Bring us the platform. Bring us the problem. Let’s find out.
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