Centurion TechThe radio that lets a swarm
find itself — without GPS.
Centurion Tech is building Phalanx, an Integrated Sensing & Communications mesh radio that delivers sub-meter ranging and multi-Mbps throughput from the same waveform. One radio. Range, timing, channel — and the data the autonomy stack already needs.
A swarm is a moving
wireless compute cluster.
Autonomous drones, robots, and sensor teams no longer just exchange commands. They exchange features, descriptors, keyframes, map fragments, model outputs, poses, covariances, and health telemetry — under GNSS denial, spoofing, and persistent RF contention.
The conventional answer — bolt a UWB ranging radio next to a comms radio — collapses past ten nodes. Polling cycles dominate, RF coexistence degrades, and SWaP balloons.
Meet Phalanx — sensing and comms, collapsed into one waveform.
Phalanx is an RF circuit-to-protocol stack that turns the swarm radio itself into a source of range, timing, channel, and uncertainty measurements. Sub-meter precision ranging and multi-Mbps throughput from the same emission.
Pilot allocation, channel estimation, and time synchronization engineered for range factors, not just bits.
Propagation delay is estimated from in-flight data packets — not separate sceduled pulses.
Sparse, estimator-driven networking: nearest neighbors plus long-baseline edges.
Exposes ranges, covariances, channel and timing metrics to your estimator.
One radio. Every factor your estimator wants.
From a stack of radios
to one fabric.
Built for the Replicator era.
The DoD's Replicator initiative anticipates thousands of attritable autonomous systems fielded across domains. Centurion's mesh radio is designed for that scale — not a 10-drone demo.
| Fleet | All-pairs links | Conventional | Phalanx |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 45 | Polling reliability limits | Sparse range graph + data packets |
| 20 | 190 | Scheduling dominates latency | Nearest-neighbor + long-baseline edges |
| 50 | 1,225 | Catastrophic latency overhead | Estimator-driven graph scheduling |
| 100 | 4,950 | Dedicated polling does not scale | Clustered mesh, range-on-packet |
“Geopolitics is pushing the pace of AI and drone innovation to an explosive sprint. Centurion Tech will pioneer the radio technology that serves as the crux of the incoming autonomy age.”
Building autonomy
at the edge?
We work with research labs, primes, and operators developing GNSS-denied autonomy at scale. Contact us about partnerships.
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