Defense startup Scout AI raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Align Ventures and Draper Associates, on top of $11 million in contracts from DARPA and the Department of Defense. The company, founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis, applies Vision Language Action (VLA) models—the same architecture class driving consumer humanoid robots—to control military ground vehicles and drones for logistics and autonomous operations missions. Their "Fury" model is currently being tested with the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry Division, with operational deployment targeted for 2027; the founders argue real-world military interaction provides training signal that internet-scraped data cannot replicate.