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// Live · Flight Reel · WAVEL-V2

Engineered for Dominance

Vectara Systems — Sovereign autonomy for unmanned platforms · HITWING WAVEL-V2, HIVE OS, AEGIS Agentic GCS

World's first forward-swept-wing air profile drone. Engineered for unmatched speed, signature, and autonomous mission dominance in contested airspace.

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AUTONOMY◣ SOVEREIGN STACKSOFTWARE◣ HIVE-OS v4.812ADVANTAGE◣ ITAR · EAR · CMMC 2.0AEGIS · HIVE · RAVEN◣ PACIFIC THEATER · EST. 2031AUTONOMY◣ SOVEREIGN STACKSOFTWARE◣ HIVE-OS v4.812ADVANTAGE◣ ITAR · EAR · CMMC 2.0AEGIS · HIVE · RAVEN◣ PACIFIC THEATER · EST. 2031

§ 01 · Doctrine

WAVEL · V2 airframe
Hitwing · Alpine sortie
Terminal phase · Intercept

// Frame & Doctrine

Operators don't fall in love with components. They fall in love with how the airframe feels.

§ 02 · Platforms

Each platform stands alone. Together they form a sovereign, attritable, and re-deployable kill-chain — owned end to end.

Agentic Ground Control

AEGIS

A reasoning ground station. Operators task intent, agents resolve airspace, sensor tasking, and engagement chains in milliseconds.

Operator ratio
1 : 48
Decision latency
< 90 ms
Comms
Mesh + SATCOM + LoRa
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// Live · Agentic GCS Dashboard

VECTARA · AEGIS GCS

// Mission · Operation Sentinel

Ground control, rebuilt with AI.

Mission Map · Sector Alpha
34.052 N · 118.243 W5 WP
NO-FLYSAM-3GEOFENCE · 4.2 kmTGT-01WP1WP2WP3WP4WP5ALPHA-3N1 km
Click map · add WP
Live EO/IR · Alpha-1
LIVE
VEH-01 · 87%PERS · 62%
ALT 124 mHDG 134°SPD 18.4 m/s
EO/IR · ZOOM 4×REC
Drone List6 units
Mission Timeline
  1. 12:18:07Waypoint 7 reached · Alpha-3
  2. 12:18:45Anomaly cleared
  3. 12:19:32Drone VX-12 rejoined Alpha
  4. 12:20:14Geofence breach risk · VX-05
  5. 12:20:55AI suggested ingress alt route
HIVE·Onboard OS
Operational

// Vectara · Onboard OS

HIVE OS

Universal Onboard Operating System

Hardware-agnostic, mission-ready edge operating layer. One OS across UAV · UGV · USV · UUV · submarines and future robotic platforms.

One OS. Any platform. Every mission.

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Swarm
512+
Latency
<90 ms
Domains
Air · Land · Sea

Eight integrated layers. Deterministic from kernel to mission graph. Built for the next generation of unmanned systems.

// Universal Platform Coverage

Not just drones. Every unmanned class.

One OS deploys unmodified to UAVs, ground rovers, surface vessels, underwater autonomous systems, robotic manipulators, and ground-station relays.

// Active Scan · Asset NetworkTracking 8 assets
UAV
Satcom
Radar
USV
UUV
UGV
Mesh
Edge
UAV
Fixed-Wing
ISR · Long-range
LIVE
UAV
Forward-Swept
Dash · Interceptor
LIVE
UAV
Multirotor
Tactical · Recon
LIVE
UAV
Loitering
Strike · Modular
LIVE
UGV
Tracked
Terrain · Cargo
LIVE
UGV
Wheeled
Logistics · Patrol
LIVE
UGV
Legged
Inspection · Recon
LIVE
USV
Surface Boat
Maritime · AIS
LIVE
USV
Hydrofoil
Coastal · High-speed
LIVE
UUV
Cruising AUV
Sonar · Inertial Nav
LIVE
UUV
Submersible
Deep · Acoustic
LIVE
EDGE
Mast Sensor
Stationary · Radar
LIVE
LINK
Satcom Relay
BVLOS · Mesh
LIVE
EDGE
Manipulator
Robotic arm · Payload
LIVE

// Eight-Layer Kernel

Deterministic from kernel to mission graph.

L1 · Real-time Kernel

< 200 µs

Pre-empted RT scheduler, lock-free queues, deterministic IPC.

L2 · HAL

ARM · x86 · NVIDIA · STM32

Hardware abstraction across compute, sensors, comms, and actuators.

L3 · Perception

60 Hz · 4 K

Sensor fusion, EKF, SLAM, vision pipeline, object & threat ID.

L4 · Autonomy

GOAP · PDDL

Behavior trees, RL policies, planner, mission graph, contingency.

L5 · Mesh

Sub-second

Mesh networking, LTE/5G, SATCOM, RF telemetry, acoustic, LOS/BVLOS.

L6 · Trust

TPM 2.0

Signed binaries, attested boot, hardened comms, signed mission.

L7 · Mission

Byzantine · Raft

Mission graphs, ROEs, geofence, intent contracts, swarm consensus.

L8 · Telemetry

10 GB/hr

Mission logging, black-box recorder, encrypted uplink, post-flight.

11
Allied theatres
184
Airframes under command
94 %
Mesh link quality · 90-day median
0
Foreign-cloud dependencies

// Deploy Modes

Hardware bundle

Onboard

OS image ships preloaded on Vectara compute. Boot to mission in < 14 s.

Container · OCI

Customer Stack

HIVE deploys as a layer over your existing flight controller and SBC.

Air-gapped

Hybrid Sovereign

Air-gapped onboard inference + sovereign ground link. No third-party cloud.

VECTARA·HIVE OS · v.4.812
ITAR Registered·EAR Compliant·CMMC 2.0 · L3

Forward-Swept Wing Interceptor

HITWING

Clean-sheet airframe engineered to outclass the world's existing tactical-class drones on speed, signature, and autonomy at once. Carbon composite. Stealth-optimised geometry.

Max speed
300–450 km/h
Ceiling
5–10 km
Range
50 km
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// WV2-IR-005 · Airframe Doctrine

HITWING WAVEL-V2 airframe
Forward-Swept Wing
Carbon Composite
High-Speed Propulsion
Dash Velocity
Low-Observable
GPS-Denied Hold
Precision Strike
One Platform · Five Missions
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§ 03 · Capability

0
Concurrent airframes per swarm
0 ms
End-to-end decision latency
0.0 h
RAVEN sustained endurance
0%
Attrition tolerated, mission continues

§ 04 · Swarm Doctrine

// HIVE OS · Distributed Mesh

// Vectara · Swarm OS

Swarm intelligence
at global scale.

Vectara Swarm OS enables autonomous fleet coordination, distributed decision-making, self-healing mesh networking, and mission-level synchronization across unmanned systems.

Link Quality
94%NOMINAL
Swarm Health
14/14ONLINE
A-01A-02A-03A-04A-05B-01B-02B-03B-04B-05C-01C-02C-03C-04
MESH NOMINAL
Nodes · 14/14
Theatres · 3 active
Latency · < 150 ms
Consensus · BYZANTINE
v4.812
64+
Drones per swarm
<150 ms
Network latency
24/7
Persistent operations
100%
Autonomous coordination
∞
Mission scalability
Capability · 01

Distributed Autonomy

Every airframe carries the full mission graph. Loss of any node never collapses the formation.

Capability · 02

Leaderless Coordination

Byzantine consensus + Raft fallback. No queen, no single point of failure.

Capability · 03

Self-Healing Mesh

Adaptive routing re-knits the network within milliseconds of any link drop.

Capability · 04

Dynamic Role Assignment

Recon, relay, strike, ISR — nodes negotiate roles live based on theatre demand.

Capability · 05

Shared Sensor Intelligence

One drone sees, all drones know. Perception fused at the edge in <90 ms.

Capability · 06

Mission Scalability

Operate from a 4-drone reconnaissance team to a 512-airframe theatre swarm.

§ 05 · Heritage

Vectara was founded on a single conviction: autonomy is a sovereignty question, not a feature. Every line of our stack — from the consensus protocol to the carbon weave — answers it.

  1. 2031

    Founded

    Three engineers, one Pacific airfield, a refusal to wait for permission.

    → Dossier
  2. 2032

    AEGIS v1

    First reasoning ground station fielded with allied special operations.

    → Dossier
  3. 2033

    HIVE OS

    184-airframe sovereign swarm crosses the Sea of Japan, end-to-end on-device.

    → Dossier
  4. 2034

    RAVEN

    First in-house airframe. Modular bays, on-board inference, 9-hour endurance.

    → Dossier
  5. Now

    Sovereign

    Vectara stacks now operate in 11 nations with zero foreign cloud dependency.

    → Dossier

§ 07 · About Vectara

Vectara Systems was founded on a single conviction: autonomy at the edge is no longer a feature — it is who owns the decision. Every line of our stack, from the consensus protocol to the carbon weave, answers that.

Pillar · 01

Sovereign by design

Air-gapped autonomy stacks. No foreign cloud. Operate where the network ends and adversaries assume you cannot.

Pillar · 02

Software is the airframe

Models, not metal, decide the engagement. Every Vectara airframe exists to deploy a policy.

Pillar · 03

Composable lethality

Modular payload bays, open agent protocols, and a shared cognitive substrate across the fleet.

Pillar · 04

Built in Europe

Engineered in the Netherlands on the contested seam of European airspace — where speed is sovereignty.

11
Allied theatres in service
184
Airframes under live command
94%
Mission link quality · 90-day median
0
Foreign-cloud dependencies

Leadership

Built by operators.

Vectara is led by former allied special operators, autonomy researchers, and aerospace structures engineers. Every executive has personally fielded what we sell.

DP

Daniel Polak

Founder · Chief Executive Officer

Founder of Vectara Systems. Operator, engineer, and entrepreneur shaping the next generation of European unmanned systems.

His path runs through frontier aerospace research and the practical end of the industry alike — from high-speed propulsion programs and self-built airframes to operational, regulatory, and patent-driven work across aviation and emerging defense technology.

Today he sets the company's product direction and operating doctrine, translating field-grounded conviction into hardware, software, and policy that holds up where it matters.

  • Years of cross-disciplinary work across aerospace operations, engineering teams, and applied research environments.
  • Track record of original UAV and propulsion development extending from university research into patent-stage defense and dual-use concepts.
  • Operating experience across aviation staffing, technical leadership, and the regulatory edge of emerging unmanned systems.
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SS

Sanjay Sparker

Director of Autonomy & Robotics

Engineering

Leads the autonomy and robotics organization. Owns the path from sensor to decision across every Vectara platform.

Background spans onboard perception, real-time guidance, and large-scale simulation — built and shipped through full-fidelity flight stacks, agentic ground systems, and multi-agent fleet coordination.

Operates where research meets deployment: turning experimental autonomy into production behavior on airframes that have to perform on the day.

  • Has authored end-to-end autonomy stacks taking platforms from simulation through field-grade deployment.
  • Built and led the perception, guidance, and mapping pipelines now embedded in the company's flight and ground systems.
  • Drives the engineering organization that turns mission intent — written or spoken — into coordinated behavior across an entire fleet.
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HQ · Vectara Systems · Netherlands
ITAR RegisteredEAR CompliantCMMC 2.0 · Level 3Public Benefit Corporation

§ 06 · Briefing

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§ 08 · Contact

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