DroneShield Secures $6.2 Million Counter-Drone Contract

DroneShield Restricted has introduced a $6.2 million standalone contract from an in-country reseller for supply to a army end-customer in an Asia Pacific nation. The reseller is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a multi-billion greenback, international, publicly listed buyer that’s contractually required to distribute options to a serious Asia Pacific army authorities division. The options embrace chosen third-party {hardware}, interoperable with DroneShield’s command-and-control software program platform, DroneSentry-C2. DroneShield expects to finish the supply and obtain fee in 2026.​

DroneSentry-C2 Platform Specs

The DroneSentry-C2 command-and-control platform serves because the central system on this deployment. Constructed on a modular and scalable structure designed for each horizontal and vertical scaling, deployment choices embrace safe cloud internet hosting or pre-provisioned on-premises server configurations.​

The DroneSentry-C2 system integrates each DroneShield proprietary sensors and third-party counter-UAS sensors and effectors by its open structure design. Integration capabilities embrace DroneShield’s DroneSentry-X Mk2 RF sensors for UAS detection and defeat, DroneOptID camera-agnostic optical/thermal digicam AI software program, and SensorFusionAI, the corporate’s sensor-agnostic 3D knowledge fusion engine. The platform makes use of a RESTful API that permits seamless integration into present safety techniques.​​

Command-and-Management Capabilities

The DroneSentry-C2 platform incorporates DroneShield’s proprietary SensorFusionAI synthetic intelligence engine, which aggregates and cross-references knowledge from a number of sources together with radio frequency, radar, optical sensors, and not too long ago built-in ADS-B aviation surveillance knowledge. This strategy reduces false alarms by extra successfully distinguishing standard plane from drone threats.​

Established Distribution Partnership

This contract represents the fifteenth standalone order DroneShield has acquired from this explicit reseller throughout the previous two years, bringing their cumulative enterprise relationship to greater than $48 million. The distribution partnership demonstrates sustained demand for built-in counter-drone options within the Asia Pacific protection market.

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