
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…