Leveraging decades of expertise in robotics, AI and human-machine teaming, IHMC presents the National Center for Collaborative Autonomy (NCCA).

The National Center for Collaborative Autonomy (NCCA) advances the science and technology needed to scale the real-world impact of autonomous systems across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains.
While robotics and artificial intelligence have rapidly moved from the laboratory into operational use, simply adding more autonomous systems does not guarantee better performance. Markets for autonomous platforms (including aerial, maritime, and ground systems) are expanding rapidly, yet without effective collaboration, increased numbers can lead to greater complexity and diminishing returns.
NCCA addresses this challenge by focusing on machine–machine and human–machine collaboration. The center’s research enables autonomous systems and humans to operate together as cohesive, adaptive teams, capable of making distributed decisions, reasoning under uncertainty, and coordinating effectively across domains.
Through advances in collaborative algorithms, human-machine teaming, context-aware reasoning, and novel command-and-control paradigms, NCCA aims to ensure that autonomy at scale leads to greater effectiveness, resilience, and safety… not just more systems.