Army funds AI drones to spot mines and ambush threats

Army invests in AI threat detection

The US Army has awarded Safe Pro Group a two point five million dollar contract to integrate threat-detection software into Anduril Ghost-X drones, small uncrewed aircraft designed to protect Abrams tanks.

Software identifies over 150 threat types

Safe Pro's Ground Truth software, built on datasets from Ukraine, can identify and map more than one hundred fifty types of explosive threats from aerial imagery, including land mines, anti-personnel mines, cluster munitions, and first-person-view…

Tanks face new battlefield dangers

On Ukrainian battlefields, tanks and armored vehicles have faced dense minefields, drone reconnaissance, and increasingly capable first-person-view drones that can strike from above or pursue vehicles through terrain once considered relatively protected.

Drones feed threat data to military networks

Ghost-X drones will use artificial intelligence to detect and locate threats and feed that information into military networks, specifically ATAK and Anduril's Lattice, giving soldiers faster and more reliable situational awareness at the tactical edge.

“By adding Safe Pro's threat-detection technology onto Ghost-X, we're providing soldiers with faster, more reliable situational awareness at the tactical edge, directly supporting the Army's tank survivability and reconnaissance missions.”