Facts

• Company: PDW
• Product type: Mission Software
• Status: available
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://www.pdw.ai/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Timeline / Research
• Sources

Summary

PDW CORE is the software architecture behind PDW C100 tactical drone platform. It supports flight control, communications resilience, simulation and operator workflows for defense teams using small unmanned aircraft in contested environments.

Overview

PDW CORE is the software architecture behind PDW C100 tactical drone platform. It supports flight control, communications resilience, simulation and operator workflows for defense teams using small unmanned aircraft in contested environments.

Market context

PDW CORE is PDW's mission software stack for flight control, communications resilience, simulation, and operator workflows on PDW tactical UAS platforms.

• Target environment: Tactical UAS deployments, defense mission planning environments and operator stations for PDW aircraft.
• Workflow context: Ground control, mission planning, flight control, simulation, payload integration and resilient communications workflows.
• Customer context: Defense operators, PDW customers and teams deploying C100, AM or integrated payload systems.
• Deployment model: Available mission software layer tied to PDW tactical UAS platforms.
• Commercial maturity: Available software product with public company positioning and hardware-platform linkage.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on aircraft integration, operator training, communications, certification, cyber requirements and mission fit.
• Market position: Mission-control software layer that turns PDW hardware into a deployable tactical UAS system.
• Adjacent products: Anduril Lattice, OverWatch, AeroVironment AV_Halo, Shield AI Hivemind Enterprise

Audience

Defense

Workflow

Ground control, mission planning, flight control, simulation, payload integration and resilient communications workflows.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Tactical UAS deployments, defense mission planning environments and operator stations for PDW aircraft.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Defense
• Workflow: Ground control, mission planning, flight control, simulation, payload integration and resilient communications workflows.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Tactical UAS deployments, defense mission planning environments and operator stations for PDW aircraft.

Specifications

• Core Functions: mission software; ground control; flight control; simulation

Timeline / Research

• 2026-03-02 - Capability - PDW releases CORE 1.4 for the C100 platform - PDW launched CORE 1.4 as the latest software architecture update for the C100, adding improvements across flight control, communications resiliency…