EOS Defense Systems Prepares to Build Slinger Counter-Drone Systems

We provide that final line of defense and ability to shoot down the drones in the final kind of kilometer

So EOS has been building highly precision systems for 40 plus years

Started building satellite tracking systems in Australia 40 years ago. Took that same technology and applied it to other products, which included remote weapon stations

So we've been building those systems for several years. There's 3,500 deployed throughout the world doing counter-US mission as well as ground-to-ground mission today

We are in the process of setting up that capability to manufacture our smallest system called the Slinger, which is right behind me here, in Huntsville

That production is starting this year, and we will start rolling those off the production line by early 2027

EOS is displaying three systems from our family of products here at AUSA

ranging from the R150 to the R400 to the R800 Each one is purpose for a particular effector or for a platform and it gives us configurability and options for our customers based on the platforms and the

threats that they are trying to defeat. So one of the areas that was really needed was something to

help the operator in terms of the cognitive workload in areas where you get multiple drones

coming at you once. So in the AI enabled aspect of things, we've added in the ability to do

aided target recognition and assisting the operator in identifying which drone should be targeted when

and allows a kind of a selectable level of autonomous operations to occur based on the

customer's con ops for how they want to engage. So better sensor systems, faster computing

allowing us to see things further out, gauge things further out at a faster rate

Huntsville's already been building the R800 and the R600. So all of those that have been delivered throughout the world have been built in Huntsville

So by adding the R400 slinger capability to be built in Huntsville allows us to establish a U based supply chain and then look at how we can reduce costs of that as well as having a dedicated production for

satisfying the US needs for those systems. So it enables us to be a little more in control of our

own destiny for what we need. That's why we've gone off and done it. Additionally, it expands the

overall production capability of the company by having a second factory able to produce that

So EOS systems offer what we call a scalable autonomy package, meaning the system can be fully manual all the way up to fully autonomous with the operator monitoring the engagement process and able to interrupt that process at any point where they need to

We believe that this offers our customers the capability needed to employ this system in a variety of different threat scenarios

It's no surprise that today's threat is ubiquitous. It unmanned aircraft systems ranging from small first view drones all the way up to jet Shahid drones It has become the weapon of choice on today modern battlefield And we need to be able to counter all of those threats What our system allows us to do is to configure for different effectors and different platforms to

counter the small threat all the way up to the large fast-moving UAS threat

So right now we're ramping up our production capabilities in Huntsville. We'll start building our first system later this year with delivery starting

early next year, ramping up to building up to, you know, 20 or more per month by the end of the year

So I guess in summary, right, so EOS, we stood up for our facility in Huntsville eight years ago

We've really turned the corner over the last eight years. We're now on an Army program of record

We're developing product, delivering product to the U.S. Army that's very important in supporting

the counter UAS capabilities, protecting individuals. As we move forward, the team stands

ready to go continue to do that. Built in the U.S., you know, that we have counter U.S. capability

coming out of Huntsville. Been doing it for years. We're not new to this market