Drones & Autonomous Systems
in collaboration with Hiatus _ The Defence Design & Communications Agency
The Future of Human-Machine Teaming (HMT)
Ukraine is rewriting the rules of warfare, but not in the way most expected. What’s emerging on the battlefield is not just faster drones or smarter systems, but a new kind of partnership between humans and machines that is already changing how decisions are made and missions are executed. But the real shift lies in what humans stop doing, and what machines start taking on.
Low-cost drone interception is now a strategic imperative for everyone
Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) have evolved from niche military platforms into widely available technologies used across commercial, industrial, and recreational sectors.
Their rapid proliferation has unlocked enormous economic value, enabling new services in logistics, agriculture, infrastructure inspection, and media production. Yet the same access has created a parallel security challenge.
The Sensor Race
As low-cost drones proliferate, the decisive advantage is shifting away from interceptors and jammers, and upstream towards detection, classification and attribution. Passive RF, acoustic and optical sensing are becoming foundational, not supplementary.