CHAOS Industries and Forterra Announce Partnership to Deliver Integrated Autonomous Counter‑UAS Capabilities
Joint offering delivers scalable, field-proven counter‑UAS capability for defense and homeland security missions
Clarksburg, MD, Oct. 15, 2025 — CHAOS Industries and Forterra today announced a strategic partnership, successfully 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 brings together CHAOS Industries’ advanced sensing, detection, and protection capabilities with Forterra’s autonomous vehicle architecture. The integrated systems have been tested in multiple field environments and demonstrated seamless operation, proving their ability to detect, track, and respond to aerial threats with unprecedented flexibility.
As part of 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.
“Defense leaders have made clear they want deployable solutions, not experiments. Together with Forterra, we are bringing the best technologies in their respective categories together, and proving this works, now, in the field,” said John Tenet and Bo Marr, co-CEOs of CHAOS Industries. “By combining our air defense systems with Forterra’s autonomous mobility package, we’ve delivered a capability that is greater than the sum of its parts and immediately relevant to the warfighter.”
Forterra’s drop‑in autonomy package allows the pairing with CHAOS’s systems to be mounted flexibly across multiple vehicle classes—from small ground robots to squad‑level mobility platforms—without dependency on proprietary vehicle configurations. This enhances mobility for dispersed units and creates new options for applications ranging from frontline Army platoons to homeland defense missions.
“Forterra was founded on the belief that autonomy should be modular, adaptable, and quickly fieldable across mission sets,” said Josh Araujo, CEO of Forterra. “This partnership with CHAOS Industries demonstrates that principle in action. Together we offer the Department of War and allied customers a proven, integrated solution for counter‑UAS operations that can also scale to convoy protection, border security, and homeland defense.”
The partnership comes as the Pentagon evaluates industry offerings for ground‑based counter‑UAS systems under initiatives. The CHAOS‑Forterra integrated solution is positioned to meet the Department’s emphasis on solutions that are field‑proven, modular, and rapidly available.
CHAOS Industries and Forterra will jointly showcase the integrated system during upcoming demonstrations and at the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting this fall.
About Forterra
Forterra delivers autonomous mission systems for defense. From self-driving land systems, to coordinated swarms of robotic systems; we build scalable, robust, mission critical hardware and software platforms that empower our customers to deploy autonomy as a force multiplier, extending reach, survivability, and effectiveness across the battlespace and industrial applications. Forterra is headquartered in Clarksburg, Md., with offices in Washington, D.C., Winter Park, Fl., Ketchum, Id. and Palo Alto, Ca. To learn more, go to forterra.com.
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