Startup Opportunities: future drone defence

📅 11 December 2025
🕑 13:00 - 18:30
📍 Makerspace, brigk - Kavalier Dalwigk, Ingolstadt

This workshop focuses on the interaction of technologies and system architectures for drone defence.
Based on an introductory system architecture for counter-UAS, participants will work in groups to develop and discuss technical solution contributions along the functional chain "reconnaissance", "battle management" and "effect".

What you can expect:

• Introduction to a specific defence application scenario: drone defence as a multidisciplinary challenge.
• Systemic view: Architectural principles, interfaces and operational processes of current and future C-UAS systems.
• Group work in three technical dimensions:
  1. Reconnaissance: sensor technology, detection, classification of threats
  2. Battle management: data fusion, decision support, command and control processes
  3. Impact: defence mechanisms from soft to hard kill solutions
• Exchange at eye level: Start-ups, industry and research jointly discuss innovative approaches, synergies and
  interfaces
• Networking & co-creation: Develop concrete solutions and project ideas in interdisciplinary teams.

The event is aimed at anyone who is active in the defence sector or develops dual-use technologies and would like to find out how their technologies dock into C-UAS architectures (sensor technology, AI/analytics, edge/cloud, battle management, effectors, simulation/testing).

As we would like to ensure a balanced group of participants, we ask for a short application by 01.12.2025 at the latest:

👉 [Apply now]

We look forward to an exciting continuation of our Defence Innovation Format - with a focus on technology,
collaboration and practical transfer.