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U.S. Army Selects Safe Pro’s Artificial Intelligence Technology for Dual Participation in the Concept Focused Warfighter Experiment 2026, Including Live Breach Maneuver

AVENTURA, Fla., Aug. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN - Safe Pro Group Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAI) (“Safe Pro” or the “Company”), a leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered defense and security solutions, today announced that the U.S. Army has selected the Company for two key components of its 2026 Concept Focused Warfighter Experiment (CFWE), adding its participation in the Live Breach event in addition to the previously announced CFWE Maneuver (CFWE-M) technology demonstration event. A new video demonstrating Safe Pro Group’s AI threat detection capability can be seen by clicking here.

This dual selection by the U.S. Army’s Futures Command (AFC) recognizes Safe Pro’s patented AI-driven computer vision technology for analyzing drone imagery and detecting battlefield threats in real time. The CFWE serves as a premier Army venue for collaborative experimentation, bringing together Cross-Functional Teams (CFTs), Centers of Excellence (CoEs), technology developers, and industry innovators to explore and validate emerging capabilities at the small unit level. Through events such as the CFWE-M, the AFC is honoring its mission to help ensure the Army and its soldiers remain at the forefront of technological innovation and warfighting ability.

“Our selection for multiple components of the Army’s Concept Focused Warfighter Experiment underscore the critical value of our real-time AI threat detection capabilities,” said Dan Erdberg, chairman and CEO of Safe Pro Group Inc. “As the Pentagon dramatically increases its investment in drone and AI technologies, we are proud to be supporting next generation force protection and mission planning through advanced, field-tested solutions.”

At CFWE, in addition to participating in the live breach event, Safe Pro team members plan to conduct demonstrations of its patented, AI-powered computer vision technologies including its SPOTD AI-powered drone-based imagery analysis platform. The Company’s image analysis platform can detect and identify over 150 types of landmines and unexploded ordnance in a fraction of a second per image, rapidly delivering mission-critical, battlefield situational awareness. Safe Pro’s technology is built on more than 2.5 years of successful operations conducted in Ukraine where its real-world datasets include high-resolution drone imagery and GPS-tagged geospatial data encompassing over 1.66 million drone images analyzed to date, and 28,000+ threats identified across 6,705 hectares.

Safe Pro is utilizing its real-world dataset to develop new, real-time force protection solutions for soldiers by integrating its technology into the TAK software ecosystem, which includes the U.S. Army’s ATAK (Android Tactical Assault Kit) platform. Integration into ATAK can allow detections of small explosive threats instantly identified in drone-based imagery by the Company’s AI technology to be quickly shared across potentially hundreds of thousands of soldier-carried and vehicle-mounted, wireless-connected devices widely utilized by the U.S. Armed Forces.

The Company’s growing role in Army experimentation comes as the Senate Committee on Appropriations recently advanced a proposed $617 million “plus-up” in funding for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), which includes the Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program, an initiative Safe Pro’s drone-based AI supports. This funding boost, combined with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) allocating up to $30 billion for drones, AI, and broader defense modernization, presents significant new opportunities for Safe Pro’s deployment in global force protection and humanitarian demining missions.

For more information about Safe Pro Group, its subsidiaries, and technologies, please visit https://safeprogroup.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, X and Instagram.

About Safe Pro Group Inc.
Safe Pro Group Inc. is a mission-driven technology company delivering AI-enabled security and defense solutions. Through cutting-edge platforms like SPOTD, Safe Pro provides advanced situational awareness tools for defense, humanitarian, and homeland security applications globally. It is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions specializing in drone imagery processing leveraging commercially available “off-the-shelf” drones with its proprietary machine learning and computer vision technology to enable rapid identification of explosives threats, providing a much safer and more efficient alternative to traditional human-based analysis methods. Built on a cloud-based ecosystem and powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Safe Pro Group’s scalable platform is targeting multiple markets that include commercial, government, law enforcement and humanitarian sectors where its Safe Pro AI software, Safe-Pro USA protective gear and Airborne Response drone-based services can work in synergy to deliver safety and operational efficiency. For more information on Safe Pro Group Inc., please visit https://safeprogroup.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve risks and uncertainties. Although Safe Pro Group believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, expectations may prove to have been materially different from the results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Safe Pro Group has attempted to identify forward-looking statements by terminology including ''believes,'' ''estimates,'' ''anticipates,'' ''expects,'' ''plans,'' ''projects,'' ''intends,'' ''potential,'' ''may,'' ''could,'' ''might,'' ''will,'' ''should,'' ''approximately'' or other words that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including market and other conditions. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth under Item 1A. in the Company’s most recently filed Form 10-K and updated from time to time in the Company’s Form 10-Q filings and in other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), copies of which may be obtained from the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of its date. Safe Pro Group undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances occurring after its date or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

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