Gambit and VICTUS Partner to Advance Coordinated Autonomy in Contested Environments
Los Angeles, Calif. (April 21, 2026) – Gambit, an AI-first defense software company, today announced a partnership with VICTUS Technologies, a developer of resilient autonomy and navigation solutions, to advance coordinated autonomous operations in environments where GPS, communications, and traditional infrastructure may be degraded or denied.
The partnership brings together Gambit’s mission-level orchestration and multi-agent coordination capabilities with VICTUS’ platform-level autonomy and navigation technologies. Under the partnership, Gambit and VICTUS will integrate their respective technologies to support coordinated, multi-agent operations across air, ground, maritime, and subsea platforms. The collaboration includes joint development, integration, and demonstration of capabilities that enable resilient autonomy and coordinated execution across heterogeneous systems.
“At scale, autonomy depends on coordination, resilience and speed of integration,” said Josh Giegel, CEO of Gambit. “Partnering with VICTUS allows us to combine mission-level orchestration with platform-level autonomous capabilities to enable systems that can operate effectively in the environments that matter most.”
Initial efforts will focus on demonstrating coordinated behaviors in GPS-denied and communications-degraded environments, with planned participation in joint demonstrations, field evaluations, and pilot programs. The companies will also pursue opportunities with U.S. Government customers, allied partners, and commercial organizations across sectors including infrastructure, logistics, energy, maritime operations, and disaster response.
“VICTUS keeps platforms operating when the environment is actively working against them,” said Jesse Hamel, CEO and Founder of VICTUS. “What Gambit brings is the coordination layer that makes those platforms dominant. For operators in GPS-denied, contested environments that combination is the difference between fragile individual systems and a resilient autonomous force.”
As autonomous systems continue to scale across defense and commercial applications, the challenge is shifting from individual platform performance to how systems operate together under real-world constraints. This collaboration focuses on enabling distributed systems to coordinate, adapt, and execute in environments where positioning, communications, and infrastructure cannot be assumed.
About Gambit
Gambit Defense is an AI-first software company delivering multi-domain, collaborative, behavior-based intelligence for autonomous systems. Its platform is domain- and platform-agnostic, enabling heterogeneous robotic teams to operate as coordinated units in complex and contested environments. Gambit allows operators to task robotic systems as they would human teammates by defining the mission space and assigning behaviors, while its unifying intelligence layer translates operator intent into distributed, real-time execution across fleets. The intelligence lives at the edge, enabling adaptive, resilient mission execution without increasing operator burden. For more information on Gambit’s solutions or to request an interview with subject matter experts, please contact press@gambit.us.
About VICTUS Technologies
VICTUS builds resilient navigation and contested-environment autonomy for unmanned, manned, and robotic systems. Our flagship PhantomNAV software keeps platforms operating when GPS, comms, and visuals fail—across air, sea, land, and space. MIT-born, venture-backed, and led by former SOCOM aviators and CSAIL engineers, VICTUS delivers mission-ready autonomy for the world’s most challenging environments.