To date, the company has demonstrated the ability to connect multiple systems, but it envisions Amorphous eventually managing thousands of payloads.

Toby Magsig, L3Harris’s vice president and general manager for enterprise autonomous solutions, said the approach used in Amorphous, where highly autonomous drones figure out what they’re doing together and collaborate with little input from the operator, is based on feedback the company received from the Army, Navy, and Defense Secretary’s office.