Red Cat Holdings has signed a memorandum of understanding with Sine Advanced Engineering to form a long-term strategic partnership focused on hardening autonomous air and maritime defense systems against electronic warfare.
Under the commercial and technology framework, the companies will integrate Sine’s resilient communications, navigation, and networking solutions into Red Cat’s uncrewed platforms. The initiative directly targets uncrewed systems, including Red Cat Aerial uncrewed aerial vehicles and Blue Ops uncrewed surface vessels, ensuring they preserve positioning accuracy alongside command, control, video, and data links in communications-contested and GPS-denied environments.
“Ukraine has become one of the world’s most important proving grounds for drone communications and electronic warfare,” said Jeff Thompson, CEO of Red Cat. “This partnership shows how companies can combine battlefield-tested technology with U.S.-designed and manufactured drones to deliver critical capabilities to our warfighters and allies. Sine brings the resilient communications, navigation and networking capabilities we see as foundational to the next generation of Red Cat’s air and maritime platforms. Together, we’re building toward autonomous systems designed to succeed on the modern battlefield.”
Sine, a global technology company with roots in Ukraine, develops GPS-independent positioning, networking architecture, and resilient video and control links built and tested under active electronic warfare conditions. The collaboration intends to evaluate these capabilities across interconnected aerial and maritime platforms, including uncrewed surface vessels, buoys, beacons, and distributed infrastructure. These networked configurations aim to extend operational reach and support coordinated unmanned missions across strategically vital areas, such as dispersed island environments.
Technical integration is already underway, building upon earlier work that utilized Sine technology to support Red Cat’s Hellcat platform in Ukraine. While the agreement establishes an initial focus on maritime platforms and distributed networking nodes, the companies intend to explore integration across Red Cat’s wider robotic portfolio to address allied defense requirements.
“Ukraine has made one thing clear: resilient communications and navigation are not optional. They are foundational to the next generation of unmanned systems,” said Mark Edgar, Co-CEO of Sine Advanced Engineering. “Sine brings technology developed and tested in Ukraine under the realities of modern electronic warfare. Red Cat’s combination of American manufacturing, air and maritime platforms, and all-domain vision makes it a powerful partner to bring these capabilities to U.S. and allied forces. Through this non-exclusive partnership, our ambition is to set a new standard for resilient, connected unmanned systems operating in contested environments.”
The non-exclusive collaboration aligns with Red Cat’s broader all-domain strategy to assemble an integrated suite of autonomous defense technologies spanning air, land, sea, and space. By pairing American uncrewed hardware manufacturing with battlefield-proven electronic protection systems, the joint effort aims to support operations for U.S., Ukrainian, and other allied defense forces facing increasingly contested operating environments.
