ITDRONEApprovals, milestones and what's next
Where we stand today: government-framework appointments, defence-innovation programmes and delivered work — kept honest and up to date.
Approvals & framework appointments
Verified appointments and certifications. Live status; bids still in progress are labelled as such.
CAA-certified operator
Authorised for UK commercial drone operations, with insured, qualified pilots and a documented safety-management system.
YPO framework
Approved supplier for Drones & Associated Services (Ref 01148) — procurable by UK public bodies.
RM6237 (LVPS)
Appointed supplier on the Crown Commercial Service framework, opening a compliant route for public-sector engagements.
DPS Dorset — Digital Innovation
Admitted to the Dorset Council Dynamic Purchasing System for software, data and AI (four-year DPS) — July 2026.
AIRR Rapid Access
Awarded compute on the UK's Isambard-AI supercomputer to train our sovereign detection models.
DPS North Tyneside — Lot 8
Engaged on the drone-inspection Dynamic Purchasing System; application in progress.
Defence & innovation programmes
Submissions to UK and NATO innovation programmes. Outcomes pending — shown for transparency, not as awards.
DASA — UK Defence Innovation
Full proposal submitted for a GNSS-denied autonomy challenge (Cycle 7). Under assessment.
NATO DIANA 2027
Application submitted to the NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for our counter-UAS work (USURPER).
AIRR Cloud Pilot
Application submitted for sovereign AI cloud compute to scale model training and deployment.
Recent updates
- Jul 2026 — Admitted to the DPS Dorset Digital Innovation system (software, data & AI).
- Jul 2026 — AIRR Cloud Pilot application submitted for sovereign cloud compute.
- 2026 — Sovereign counter-UAS detection models trained on Isambard-AI, with strong results on public UAV benchmarks (our own runs on the official test split — not a public-leaderboard submission).
- 2026 — Continued development of DroneFormer™ and the UICS command-and-control platform — UK-hosted and DJI-Cloud-free by design.
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