Army Innovation Day 2025

Army Innovation Day 2025 (AID25) focused on Land-Air Autonomous Tactical Teaming in the Littoral at Scale (LAATT-LS). The activity explored how emerging and disruptive technologies could enhance the range and lethality, sustainment and survivability of Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS)-enabled forces operating in distributed littoral environments. 

AID25 brought together Army, industry and academia to examine innovative technologies with application to future land capability, placing particular emphasis on artificial intelligence, autonomy, quantum technologies, and power and energy solutions. 

The activity emphasised rapid adaptation, experimentation and the development of field-ready prototype technologies capable of supporting future Army operations in complex littoral environments. 

The Army Innovation Day 2025 Call for Submissions was released on 29 November 2024 and closed on 3 February 2025. AID25 formed part of Army's ongoing effort to explore emerging and disruptive technologies relevant to future land capability and Distributed Littoral Operations. The activity focused on technologies within the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) range of TRL 5 to TRL 8 and sought innovative solutions capable of supporting future experimentation, development and operational evaluation activities

Challenge Statement

Army must enhance the range and lethality, sustainment and survivability of the land force to be ready to fight wars and continually adapt to complexity in cluttered littoral environments.   

Emerging technologies are accelerating the pace of change in warfare, driving new concepts to realise military effects and enhance existing capabilities. AID25 emphasised Land-Air Autonomous Tactical Teaming in the Littoral at Scale (LAATT-LS) to generate and scale emerging and disruptive technologies with application to Army’s mission and primary operating environment.   

Army sought innovative capabilities to enhance the range and lethality, sustainment and survivability of RAS-enabled forces operating in distributed littoral environments, with a focus on artificial intelligence, autonomy, quantum technologies and power and energy technologies. 

Focus Areas

Range and Lethality

Army sought innovations that extended operational reach and lethality through the employment of autonomous systems, advanced sensing, decision-support capabilities, swarming operations, autonomous precision effects and enhanced command and control solutions.   

Sustainment

Army sought technologies that improved the ability to sustain dispersed forces through advances in logistics, resupply, autonomous distribution, power generation, energy storage and advanced manufacturing at the tactical edge.   

Survivability

Army sought innovations that improved force protection and survivability through autonomous systems, counter-uncrewed systems capabilities, resilient operations in contested environments and technologies that reduced risk to soldiers in dangerous tasks.