Safe Pro Group Accelerates Growth Across AI, Drone Services, and Ballistic Divisions Following $20+ Million in Strategic Investments
New funding supporting rapid development of SPOTD NODE, commercialization of AI-powered image analysis, autonomous drone deployments and introduction of advanced ballistic protective gear for law enforcement
Safe Pro Group Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAI) ("Safe Pro" or the "Company"), a developer of AI-enabled defense and security solutions, today provided an operational update highlighting progress across its business units and against its near-term commercialization roadmap.
The update follows over $20 million in new strategic investments, including a $14 million equity investment at $7 per share led by Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:ONDS), a leading provider of autonomous drone technology. The additional capital is accelerating product development and go-to-market initiatives at Safe Pro's three core subsidiaries: Safe Pro AI, Airborne Response, and Safe-Pro USA.
"We're entering a new phase of execution and scale," said Dan Erdberg, Chairman and CEO of Safe Pro Group. "With a strengthened balance sheet and strong partners in the drone and defense sectors, we are accelerating the deployment of our AI, aerial services and ballistic products to serve critical defense, infrastructure, public safety and Humanitarian missions globally."
Key Developments
- AI Collaboration with Red Cat Holdings with Safe Pro Group to embed real-time AI-powered threat detection directly onboard the Black Widow™ drone platform to provide enhanced battlefield intelligence capabilities
- Rapid development and prototyping of SPOTD NODE supported by new funding in advance of pending end user demonstrations
- Presentation of ground-breaking demining research demonstrating the significant ROI for NGO's deploying SpotlightAITM
- Recently commenced support and operation of Skydio self-docking drones with a Florida utility company
- Advancing certification process for lightweight ballistic armor under new NIJ standards and working towards ISO compliance in support of increased government and military sales
Safe Pro AI – Monetizing AI for Defense and Security
Safe Pro's SpotlightAITM image analysis software powered by its SPOTD (Safe Pro Object Threat Detection) platform utilizes AI and computer vision to autonomously detect small explosive threats in drone imagery—technology already validated through over 2 million real-world images analyzed from operations in Ukraine. The Company recently introduced InFlight, a next-generation embedded version of SpotlightAITM now being integrated into Red Cat Holding's Black Widow drone currently used by the US Army. Safe Pro's new embeddable AI platform provides real-time threat detection directly on the drone, enabling faster, safer decision-making in the field. Safe Pro is currently engaging with the US Army to evaluate integration of InFlight across multiple contracted drone platforms, positioning the product for potential funding as operations resume following the reopening of the US federal government.
Driven by end user feedback from the battlefield and supported by the new strategic funding, Safe Pro developed and demonstrated its SPOTD NODE (Navigation, Observation & Detection Engine) to key US Army stakeholders. Born out of Safe Pro's on the ground experience in Ukraine and guided by end-user feedback, NODE is a turnkey, edge-based drone imagery processing and mapping solution. NODE eliminates the need for wireless connectivity in the field and delivers powerful local data processing capabilities, providing rapid situational awareness to personnel of potential ground-based explosive threats.
At the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) 2025 GICHD Innovation Conference, a first-of-its-kind study was presented by Safe Pro and Norwegian People's Aid (NPA), that demonstrated SpotlightAITM can improve demining survey productivity by 800+%, detect 550% more unexploded ordnance (UXO) and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) per hectare than conventional non-technical survey techniques, and significantly increase accuracy while cutting survey costs by roughly 50% per hectare (1 Hectare ≈ 2.47 Acres). The Company intends to utilize this real-world ROI data with industry and government stakeholders and funders to support the wide-scale adoption of its AI-image analysis technology.
Airborne Response – Commercializing Autonomous Drone Operations
Safe Pro's drone services subsidiary, Airborne Response, has begun operational support of an autonomous drone-based asset inspection solution with a major US utility customer. Utilizing Skydio's self-docking drones, Airborne's customer can now conduct fully remote inspections of power infrastructure—reducing response times and costs while providing actionable intelligence that can improve operational safety for ground personnel.
Airborne also continues to enhance its Drone-as-a-First Responder (DFR) program with a South Florida police department, demonstrating Safe Pro's broader capability to automate situational awareness and emergency response in both public safety and commercial use cases.
Safe-Pro USA – Expanding into Next-Generation Armor Systems
Safe-Pro USA, the Company's ballistic protection unit, is undergoing certification under the latest NIJ 0101.07 standards for its new line of ultra-light and ultra-thin body armor, a key requirement for access to federal and state contracts. The division is also testing lightweight composite armor kits for police and government vehicles designed to withstand high-powered rifle threats without compromising vehicle performance or requiring modification. Safe-Pro USA is also working to complete its ISO 9001 certification, an international standard that verifies a company's quality management system, another common requirement in federal and state contracting.
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About Safe Pro Group Inc.
Safe Pro Group Inc. (NASDAQ:SPAI) is a mission-driven technology company delivering AI-enabled security and defense solutions. Through cutting-edge platforms like SPOTD, Safe Pro provides advanced situational awareness tools for defense, humanitarian, and homeland security applications globally. It is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions specializing in drone imagery processing, leveraging commercially available "off-the-shelf" drones with its proprietary machine learning and computer vision technology to enable rapid identification of explosives threats, providing a much safer and more efficient alternative to traditional human-based analysis methods. Built on a cloud-based ecosystem and powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Safe Pro Group's scalable platform is targeting multiple markets that include commercial, government, law enforcement and humanitarian sectors where its Safe Pro AI software, Safe-Pro USA protective gear and Airborne Response drone-based services can work in synergy to deliver safety and operational efficiency. For more information on Safe Pro Group Inc., please visit https://safeprogroup.com/.
Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties. The forward-looking statements in this press release include, among others, statements regarding the anticipated acceleration of product development and commercialization, the integration and potential funding of Safe Pro's AI and drone technologies by government and industry partners, the expected benefits and adoption of SpotlightAITM and NODE, the advancement of certification processes for ballistic armor, and the Company's ability to expand its market presence and achieve operational milestones as described herein. Although Safe Pro Group believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, expectations may prove to have been materially different from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Safe Pro Group has attempted to identify forward-looking statements by terminology including ''believes,'' ''estimates,'' ''anticipates,'' ''expects,'' ''plans,'' ''projects,'' ''intends,'' ''potential,'' ''may,'' ''could,'' ''might,'' ''will,'' ''should,'' ''approximately'' or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including market and other conditions. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth under Item 1A in the Company's most recently filed Form 10-K and updated from time to time in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), copies of which may be obtained from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of its date. Safe Pro Group undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after its date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.
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