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DIU, Partners Select Finalists For Low-Cost Sensing Counter-Drone Challenge

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, July 21st, 2025

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DIU, Partners Select Finalists For Low-Cost Sensing Counter-Drone Challenge

MatrixSpace's expeditionary radar kit for detecting aircraft, small drones, vehicles, and people. Photo: MatrixSpace

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), U.S. Northern Command, and the Army on Monday announced 10 companies that will demonstrate their low-cost sensing technologies for counter-drone applications at a military exercise in September. The finalists in the $1 million prize challenge are BLUEiQ, CHAOS, Fortem Technologies, Guardian RF, Hidden Level, MatrixSpace, REVOBEAM, Norway’s Squarehead Technology, Teledyne’s [TDY] Teledyne FLIR Defense, and Thalrix. The companies each received a portion of the $1 million prize for the Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft System Low-Cost Sensing…

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