Intelligent Vehicle Autonomy for the Most Challenging Missions
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Metron develops innovative autonomy technologies enabling complex missions in challenging environments. Focus areas include autonomy for adaptive decision making, mission planning, health monitoring, simulation systems, and perception.
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Metron’s autonomy provides the core capabilities underlying our unmanned vehicle programs. Our autonomy combines advanced behaviors with innovative sensing and logic to support the most challenging of missions, including operations in dynamic environments where unanticipated events are likely, extended duration missions, and missions with multiple goals.
Autonomy
Autonomous vehicles function in environments where they must operate and adapt to a variety of dynamic situations, without human controllers. Developing the capabilities that enable these systems to adapt and make appropriate decisions is crucial for oceanic operations, such as search, exploration, and infrastructure inspection, and intervention missions.
Autonomous and Unmanned System Capabilities

Health Monitoring
Metron is developing technologies to improve mission reliability for unmanned vehicles via improved prognostics, intelligent planning, and adaptive decision making.
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Adaptive Autonomy
Metron develops tools that enable intelligent autonomy for complex and long-duration missions.
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Perception
Metron develops tools that enable autonomous systems to process sensor data to make flexible planning decisions.
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UXV Modeling and Simulation
To develop advanced autonomy that is robust and reliable, we use models, simulations, and virtual testbeds as we develop new concepts, evaluate performance, and test software.
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Active and Recent Autonomous Systems Programs
Metron’s groundbreaking work enables autonomous vehicles in the most extreme environments: from remote ground locations to coastal waters to the deepest seas.
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
- ONR Advanced Undersea Mission Autonomy (AUMA)
- DARPA TTO Angler
- DARPA TTO Manta Ray
- ONR Large Diameter Underwater Vehicle Innovative Naval Prototype
- Metron ANCC Autonomy
Unmanned Ground Vehicles
- PUMBA SBIR for the US Army
Unmanned Surface Vehicles
- DARPA TTO No Manning Required, Ship (NOMARS)
- Threat Avoidance Planning and Response SBIR for the US Navy (PMS 406)
- Systems Health Monitoring SBIR for for the US Navy (PMS 406/PMS 420)

Autonomy, Navigation, Command & Control (ANCC)
Metron's Autonomy, Navigation, Command & Control (ANCC) is an autonomy package that allows unmanned vehicles fully autonomous, reliable, execution of complex vehicle missions without human oversight.
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Metron Careers
Autonomy Career Opportunities
At Metron, experts in autonomy and robotics are overcoming challenges in the field of unmanned vehicle by designing impactful solutions for decision systems, vehicle health monitoring, simulators, and autonomous navigation.