CHAOS Industries and Forterra Announce Partnership to Deliver Integrated Autonomous Counter‑UAS Capabilities
LOS ANGELES & CLARKSBURG, Md. – CHAOS Industries and Forterra today announced a strategic partnership, successfully integrating their complementary technologies to address one of the Department of Defense’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, VANQUISH™, CHAOS’s distributed 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 the Army’s xTech Program 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 Defense 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 CHAOS Industries
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with omniscient systems purpose-built for today’s realities. Designed and built by top U.S. military veterans and Silicon Valley innovators, CHAOS Industries’ products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. In a world where technological threats move at unprecedented speed, CHAOS Industries delivers advanced sensing and detection solutions that give the ultimate advantage: time.
CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $490 million in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and NEA. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com.
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.
