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DIU-Singapore Make Small Awards For C-UAS, Secure Drone Communications

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 5th, 2025

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DIU-Singapore Make Small Awards For C-UAS, Secure Drone Communications

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The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Singapore’s Ministry of Defence on Wednesday they have made small prize challenge awards to two companies to optimize their counter-drone, and secure drone communications technologies for use by warfighters. Mistral Inc., which is based in Maryland, received $80,000 to combine radio frequency sensors, kinetic and non-kinetic effects, into a single package for its counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) Victus C2 Gateway solution. DIU said that Mistral’s system integrates with existing defense systems to work with…

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