Leidos Unveils HeadWay Dispatch for Cross-Vendor AI Agent Control

Leidos introduced HeadWay Dispatch on November 4, 2026, a governance platform designed to oversee AI agents from different vendors, set limits on their autonomy and preserve tamper-evident records of their decisions. The platform is aimed at organizations whose agents span separate suppliers and systems. Its initial framework has three parts: Know identifies active agents and the systems they can reach; Control determines which actions can proceed independently, require approval or are prohibited; and Prove creates records that allow decisions to be reviewed afterward.

The model wraps permissions and evidence around each agent instead of treating identity verification alone as sufficient authority to act. An official HeadWay Dispatch factsheet explains how those controls are calibrated. Agents gain or lose autonomy based on task complexity, consequence severity and operational context, with each action assigned to one of four outcomes: block, confirm before acting, notify and proceed, or execute automatically.

Low-risk, reversible work can therefore proceed without the same approval burden as a consequential action. Flight Recorder handles the evidence side with tamper-evident reasoning provenance and a full chain of custody. A Kill…