CHAOS Industries partnered with Forterra integrating their complementary technologies to address one of the Department of War's most urgent operational challenges: countering rapidly evolving unmanned aerial system (UAS) threats.
The collaboration together will offer CHAOS Industries’ advanced sensing, detection, and protection capabilities with Forterra’s autonomous vehicle architecture. The integrated systems have been tested in various field environments as well as demonstrated seamless operation, proving their ability to detect, track, and respond to aerial threats with unprecedented flexibility.
In the recent trials, VANQUISHTM, CHAOS’s bi-static radar system, was embedded onto a Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET) powered by Forterra’s AutoDrive. This configuration improves survivability and maneuverability. The joint system has been validated in field exercises ahead of a government demonstration scheduled for late October in Texas.
Forterra’s drop-in autonomy package enables seamless integration with CHAOS Industries’ systems, allowing them to be mounted across various vehicle classes—from small ground robots to squad-level mobility platforms—without reliance on proprietary vehicle configurations. This flexibility enhances mobility for dispersed units and offers new operational options for applications ranging from frontline Army platoons to homeland defense missions.
Executive Statement
According to John Tenet and Bo Marr, co-CEOs of CHAOS Industries, defense leaders have made clear they want deployable solutions, not experiments. Together with Forterra, they are bringing the best technologies in their respective categories together, and proving this works, now, in the field. By combining their air defense systems with Forterra’s autonomous mobility package, they have delivered a capability that is greater than the sum of its parts and immediately relevant to the warfighter.