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Safe Pro and Red Cat to Unveil InFlight Real-Time AI Threat Detection Capabilities to the U.S. Army Onboard the Black Widow(TM) Drone Platform
AVENTURA, Fla., May 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Safe Pro Group Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAI) (“Safe...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Safe Pro and Red Cat to Unveil InFlight Real-Time AI Threat Detection Capabilities to the U.S. Army Onboard the Black Widow™ Drone PlatformCompany Completes Initial Integration of its AI onto the Black Widow™ Short Range Reconnaissance Drone Ahead of New U.S. Army Exercises and Autonomy Programs Starting in the Third Quarter of 2026\nAVENTURA, Fla., May 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Safe Pro Group Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAI) (“Safe Pro” or the “Company”), a developer of artificial intelligence (“AI”)-enabled defense, security, and situational awareness solutions, today announced it will be unveiling its new InFlight, embeddable, real-time AI-powered threat detection package integrated into Red Cat Holdings’ (“Red Cat”)(Nasdaq: RCAT) Black Widow™ drones to the U.S. Army during upcoming exercises scheduled in the third quarter of 2026. A Red Cat Black Widow™ drone undergoing testing for AI-powered detection of anti-tank mines (Source: Safe Pro Group Inc.) Embedded directly onto the Black Widow™ drone selected by the U.S. Army, InFlight enables the rapid identification and location of more than 150 types of explosive threats including landmines, anti-personnel mines, cluster munitions, and ambush FPV drones in real-time. The integration of Inflight into the Black Widow™ platform commenced in September 2025 when Safe Pro and Red Cat teams began working to embed the Company’s AI models onboard the drone which has been selected by the U.S. Army under the Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Program of Record. Embedded into the compute hardware of the Black Widow™, Safe Pro’s AI natively processes real-time 4K video onboard the drone at the tactical edge, delivering live threat data directly into the U.S. Army’s Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) software ecosystem, enhancing and accelerating decision making critical to mission success. “Today’s integration milestone is the first-of-its-kind to provide real time threat detection capabilities to U.S. Army units fielding the Black Widow, demonstrating our commitment to rapid innovation from soldier feedback,” said Dan Erdberg Chairman and CEO of Safe Pro Group Inc. “Inflight represents the next commercially available technology i...