# Communications-Denied Autonomy **Entity class:** Autonomous-systems capability **Domain:** Defense / Robotics **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Communications-denied autonomy allows a machine to continue navigating, sensing, coordinating, or acting when links to remote operators are jammed, unavailable, or physically impractical. ## Mechanism and significance The capability improves resilience while shifting more consequential judgment into preauthorized rules and onboard models. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Autonomous Warfare and Strategic Systems|Autonomous Warfare and Strategic Systems]] - **Primary fields:** [[Autonomous Weapons]] · [[AI Superpower]] · [[Machine Succession]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Autonomous Undersea System]] · [[Hunt Mode]] · [[Project Agincourt]] · [[AUTOWARCOM]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.