Safe Pro and Red Cat to Unveil InFlight Real-Time AI Threat Detection Capabilities to the U.S. Army Onboard the Black Widow™ Drone Platform
Rhea-AI Summary
Safe Pro Group (Nasdaq: SPAI) completed initial integration of its InFlight real-time AI threat detection onto Red Cat’s Black Widow™ Short Range Reconnaissance drone, selected by the U.S. Army. The system will be unveiled during Army exercises starting in the third quarter of 2026.
InFlight processes onboard 4K video to identify 150+ explosive threats and feeds data into the Army’s ATAK ecosystem. It complements Safe Pro’s backpack-sized SPOTD NODE-X edge processor, using a dataset of 2.75 million drone images and 49,000+ real-world threats to enhance battlefield situational awareness.
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News Market Reaction – SPAI
On the day this news was published, SPAI declined 5.31%, reflecting a notable negative market reaction. Argus tracked a trough of -4.0% from its starting point during tracking. Our momentum scanner triggered 10 alerts that day, indicating notable trading interest and price volatility. This price movement removed approximately $5M from the company's valuation, bringing the market cap to $86.46M at that time.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.
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Peers on Argus
SPAI fell 4.83% with mixed peer action: VWAV -4%, ISSC -1.75%, SPCE -9.79%, DPRO -2.23%, while POWW rose 3.11%, suggesting stock-specific dynamics around SPAI’s AI drone integration.
Previous AI Reports
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18 | AI subcontract extension | Positive | -4.8% | Additional U.S. Government subcontract modification for AI edge processing support. |
| May 15 | AI-driven earnings | Positive | -1.4% | Record Q1 2026 revenue and margins driven by AI defense solutions growth. |
| May 11 | Army exercise selection | Positive | +14.0% | SPOTD and NODE-X chosen for U.S. Army Force-on-Force combat exercise. |
| Apr 29 | AI teaming agreement | Positive | -2.4% | Master Teaming deal with prime contractor to fuse AI air and ground autonomy. |
| Apr 27 | AI demo event | Positive | -1.8% | Planned NODE-X and SPOTD AI demonstrations at U.S. Army JPCE event. |
Recent AI-related announcements were largely positive but produced mixed reactions, with one double‑digit gain offset by several smaller selloffs after favorable AI contract and demo updates.
Over the past month, SPAI has repeatedly highlighted its AI defense trajectory, from a $1,000,000 AI edge-processing subcontract and a U.S. Army combat exercise selection to record Q1 2026 revenue of $1.22 million driven by AI. Despite these milestones, four of the last five AI-tagged releases saw negative next‑day moves, while the Force-on-Force exercise news on May 11 delivered a 14.01% gain. Today’s InFlight–Black Widow integration fits this ongoing push into battlefield AI and Army programs.
Historical Comparison
Over five recent AI-tagged announcements, SPAI’s average next-day move was 0.73%, with one strong rally and several modest selloffs despite generally favorable AI contract and demo news.
AI-tagged history shows a progression from demos and teaming agreements into concrete U.S. Army exercises and subcontract expansions, steadily deepening SPAI’s battlefield AI deployment footprint.
Regulatory & Risk Context
An effective-date pending S-3 resale registration filed on Nov 7, 2025 covers up to 2,000,000 shares held by selling stockholders from an October 2025 PIPE. The company itself is not selling shares and will not receive proceeds, though registered holders gain flexibility to resell into the market over time.
Market Pulse Summary
The stock moved -5.3% in the session following this news. A negative reaction despite operational progress fits SPAI’s mixed history around AI announcements, where four of the last five AI-tagged releases saw post-news declines. Investors have previously faded good news, including record Q1 2026 revenue of $1.22 million and subcontract expansions. Concerns could center on execution risk, contract timing, or prior volatility after a 14.01% spike on Army exercise selection, making follow-through metrics critical.
Key Terms
short range reconnaissance technical
tactical assault kit (atak) technical
situational awareness technical
uxo medical
cluster munitions technical
fpv drones technical
edge-processing technical
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Company 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
AVENTURA, 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 in our portfolio, and when combined with our new NODE-X edge solution, delivers powerful AI-powered computer vision technologies in a tactical kit built for real time battlefield maneuver support,” concluded Mr. Erdberg.
InFlight integration into the Black Widow™ complements Safe Pro’s new SPOTD Navigation, Observation and Detection Engine X (NODE-X), a powerful, backpack sized edge-processing solution designed to map and share mission critical information collected by U.S. Army drones. Supporting rapid deployment at the tactical edge, the SPOTD NODE-X provides users with high fidelity 2D and 3D interactive terrain maps including hazard detections, vegetation analysis, and slope guidance in support of manned and unmanned maneuver operations. The SPOTD family of InFlight and NODE-X deliver a combined capability to provide greatly enhanced situational awareness, supporting a wide array of ground missions even in connectivity-denied environments.
Powering Safe Pro’s SPOTD technology is one of the world’s largest real-world landmine and UXO datasets consisting of high-resolution imagery and GPS-tagged geospatial data encompassing over 2.75 million drone images analyzed to date, and 49,000+ threats detected from real life battlefields.
For more information about Safe Pro, visit: https://safeproai.com/landmine-detections/. For information about Safe Pro Group, its subsidiaries, and technologies, please visit https://safeprogroup.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X.
About Safe Pro Group Inc.
Safe Pro Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SPAI) 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. Forward-looking statements relate to future events, future expectations, plans and prospects. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, Safe Pro’s ability to successfully integrate its technology into drone hardware, support U.S. Government operations and the acceptance of its solutions by potential government, military and humanitarian organizations. 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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Investor Contact:
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