PiLogic has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to test its satellite fault-detection and failure-prediction software on spacecraft electrical and power subsystems.
The company will integrate its Exact AI inference engine to flag anomalies, infer failure modes, and recommend corrective actions, while AFRL provides access to a satellite testing platform for operationally relevant validation. PiLogic says the system blends engineering models, physics-based relationships and probability theory to move beyond threshold-based diagnostics and support explainable root-cause analysis. The work is already running on two terrestrial flat sats, with an orbit path still open.
The arrangement pushes the software from concept into lab-backed testing, a step that could shape how operators assess AI for mission assurance.