Minerva is designed to meet the requirements of a command and weapon engagement system (CWES). It uses flexible authorisation rules to manage engagements and keeps full logs of all decisions for review and certification. Software accreditation is carried out in close coordination with the responsible national authorities.

Rather than managing assets individually, Minerva allows operators to define intent and translates this intent into executable group behaviour. This way the operator can coordinate complex attack patterns and swarms, which vastly increases the efficiency of complex multi-domain operations.

Minerva is designed to keep humans in-the-loop throughout, decreasing the risk to operators while improving their accuracy and operational effectiveness. It is the operator that determines whether or not to engage a target.