CHAOS Industries and Forterra today announced a strategic partnership, successfully integrating their complementary technologies to address one of the Department of Defense’s most urgent operational challenges: countering rapidly evolving unmanned aerial system (UAS) threats. The collaboration brings together CHAOS Industries’ advanced sensing, detection, and protection capabilities with Forterra’s autonomous vehicle architecture. The integrated systems have been tested in multiple field environments and demonstrated seamless operation, proving their ability to detect, track, and respond to aerial threats with unprecedented flexibility. As part of recent trials, VANQUISH™, CHAOS’s distributed radar system, was embedded onto a Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET) powered by Forterra’s AutoDrive. This configuration improves survivability and maneuverability. The joint system has been validated in field exercises ahead of the Army’s xTech Program scheduled for late October in Texas. “Defense leaders have made clear they want deployable solutions, not experiments. Together with Forterra, we are bringing the best technologies in their respective categories together, and proving this works, now, in the field,” said John Tenet and Bo Marr, co-CEOs of CHAOS Industries. “By combining our air defense systems with Forterra’s autonomous mobility package, we’ve delivered a capability that is greater than the sum of its parts and immediately relevant to the warfighter.”

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