Safe Pro Group has won a $2.5 million U.S. Army prime contract to provide threat-detection software for use on Anduril Industries’ Ghost-X drone. The work is aimed at helping protect Abrams tanks through aerial reconnaissance and real-time detection of explosive hazards.
The award is Safe Pro’s first prime contract. Its software is intended to run on the drone itself, with threat information sent to Army systems and Anduril’s Lattice platform.
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Contract and mission: The Army awarded the contract through a Commercial Solutions Opening focused on detecting ground threats from the air. The stated mission is to support tank protection and reconnaissance.
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Technology: Safe Pro’s Ground Truth Air software uses machine learning to analyze live drone video onboard the aircraft. The company says it can identify and geolocate more than 150 types of threats, including landmines, antipersonnel mines, cluster munitions and first-person-view ambush drones.
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Army and Anduril systems: Threat data can be streamed into the Army’s ATAK network and Anduril’s Lattice system. The Army has selected the Ghost-X platform for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance work under its Medium Range Reconnaissance program.
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Safe Pro’s claimed data base: The company says its technology is trained on a dataset of more than 3.2 million drone images, with over 60,200 confirmed detections collected across more than 40,520 acres in Ukraine.
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Partnership: Safe Pro will work with Anduril to integrate its software with Ghost-X. Anduril said the addition is intended to give soldiers faster situational awareness in the field.
The award makes Safe Pro the prime contractor for this $2.5 million effort, while its technology is being deployed on Anduril’s drone platform. The announcement does not specify the contract’s duration or how payments will be scheduled.