Capabilities
Fidelis Machines builds AI and autonomous systems for defense, critical infrastructure, and industrial security.
Autonomous Perimeter Intelligence
Our flagship R&D program is Aslan — a next-generation Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS) currently in development. Aslan patrols defined territories, builds a georeferenced multi-modal environmental baseline, and detects intrusion conditions before intrusion events occur. The platform runs on an autonomous UGV and processes all sensor data on-board with no cloud dependency.
Robotic and OT Network Defense
Every autonomous machine is a network endpoint, and every endpoint is exposed. Rockfish NDR is our IoT/IIoT-native Network Detection and Response platform, built to monitor robotic fleets, industrial control systems, and unattended sensor networks for adversary activity inside the wire. Deployed as a single Rust binary, Rockfish operates air-gapped or connected, decodes native operational protocols including Modbus, DNP3, MQTT, and ENIP/CIP, and writes cryptographically signed evidence to portable Parquet storage.
Autonomous Systems Development
Beyond Aslan, we develop autonomous systems for off-the-shelf robotics and IoT platforms. Our capabilities include sensor fusion, edge AI, path planning, computer vision, and behavior tree-based autonomous decision logic, validated on our 200-acre proving ground in Central Virginia.