ZenaTech’s Zena AI Division for Advanced AI-Driven Drone Solutions for US Defense and Homeland Security to be Based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) selected Baton Rouge, Louisiana as the base for Zena AI, Inc., a U.S. division focused on advanced AI-driven drone solutions for defense and homeland security announced on October 23, 2025. The company signed a lease for secure downtown office space and plans to hire up to eight AI software and engineering specialists by year-end.
Zena AI will develop ISR platforms, autonomous navigation, multi-drone coordination, real-time decision-making, and intuitive control interfaces, and will advance the Eagle Eye project integrating AI drones with historical and real-time data plus quantum computing. The initiatives are stated to align with the White House AI Action Plan and the three Executive Orders issued on July 23, 2025.
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) ha scelto Baton Rouge, Louisiana come base per Zena AI, Inc., una divisione statunitense focalizzata su soluzioni avanzate guidate dall'IA per droni per la difesa e la sicurezza interna, annunciata il 23 ottobre 2025. L'azienda ha firmato un contratto di locazione per uno spazio ufficio sicuro nel centro e prevede di assumere fino a otto specialisti in software e ingegneria IA entro la fine dell'anno.
Zena AI svilupperà piattaforme ISR, navigazione autonoma, coordinazione di multi-droni, presa di decisioni in tempo reale e interfacce di controllo intuitive, e farà avanzare il progetto Eagle Eye integrando droni IA con dati storici e in tempo reale più computing quantistico. Le iniziative sono dichiarate per allinearsi con il White House AI Action Plan e i tre Ordini Esecutivi emessi il 23 luglio 2025.
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) seleccionó Baton Rouge, Louisiana como base para Zena AI, Inc., una división estadounidense enfocada en soluciones avanzadas impulsadas por IA para drones de defensa y seguridad interior anunciada el 23 de octubre de 2025. La empresa firmó un contrato de arrendamiento para un espacio de oficinas seguro en el centro y planea contratar hasta ocho especialistas en software e ingeniería de IA para fin de año.
Zena AI desarrollará plataformas ISR, navegación autónoma, coordinación de múltiples drones, toma de decisiones en tiempo real e interfaces de control intuitivas, y avanzará el proyecto Eagle Eye integrando drones IA con datos históricos y en tiempo real más computación cuántica. Las iniciativas se alinearán con el White House AI Action Plan y las tres Órdenes Ejecutivas emitidas el 23 de julio de 2025.
ZenaTech (나스닥: ZENA)가 Zena AI, Inc.의 미국 지사를 위한 기반으로 루이지애나주 배턴루지를 선택했다고 2025년 10월 23일에 발표했습니다. 도심의 보안 사무공간 임대 계약을 체결했고 연말까지 AI 소프트웨어 및 엔지니어링 전문가 여덟 명을 채용할 계획입니다.
Zena AI는 ISR 플랫폼, 자율 주행, 다중 드론 조정, 실시간 의사결정, 직관적인 제어 인터페이스를 개발하고, Eagle Eye 프로젝트를 추진하여 AI 드론을 역사적 데이터와 실시간 데이터, 그리고 양자 컴퓨팅과 통합할 예정입니다. 이 이니셔티브는 White House AI Action Plan과 2025년 7월 23일에 발행된 세 개의 행정명령과 일치하도록 선언되었습니다.
ZenaTech (Nasdaq : ZENA) a choisi Baton Rouge, Louisiane comme base pour Zena AI, Inc., une division américaine axée sur des solutions avancées pilotées par l'IA pour les drones destinés à la défense et à la sécurité intérieure annoncée le 23 octobre 2025. L'entreprise a signé un bail pour un espace de bureau sécurisé au centre et prévoit d'embaucher jusqu'à huit spécialistes en logiciels et ingénierie IA d'ici la fin de l'année.
Zena AI développera des plateformes ISR, une navigation autonome, une coordination multi-drones, une prise de décision en temps réel et des interfaces de contrôle intuitives, et fera progresser le projet Eagle Eye en intégrant des drones IA avec des données historiques et en temps réel plus l'informatique quantique. Les initiatives visent à s'aligner sur le White House AI Action Plan et les trois décrets exécutifs émis le 23 juillet 2025.
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) wählte Baton Rouge, Louisiana als Basis für Zena AI, Inc., eine US-Abteilung, die sich auf fortschrittliche KI-gesteuerte Drohnentechnologien für Verteidigung und innere Sicherheit konzentriert, angekündigt am 23. Oktober 2025. Das Unternehmen unterzeichnete einen Mietvertrag für sichere Büroflächen im Zentrum und plant bis zum Jahresende die Einstellung von bis zu acht KI-Software- und Ingenieurfachleuten.
Zena AI wird ISR-Plattformen, autonome Navigation, Koordination mehrerer Drohnen, Echtzeit-Entscheidungen und intuitive Bedienoberflächen entwickeln und das Projekt Eagle Eye vorantreiben, das KI-Drohnen mit historischen und Echtzeitdaten plus Quantencomputing integriert. Die Initiativen sollen sich mit dem White House AI Action Plan und den drei Executive Orders vom 23. Juli 2025 in Einklang befinden.
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) اختارت باتون روج، لويزيانا كمقر لـ Zena AI, Inc.، فرع أمريكي يركز على حلول متقدمة مدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي للطائرات بدون طيار للدفاع والأمن الداخلي، كما أُعلن في تشرين الأول/أكتوبر 2025 23. وقعت الشركة عقد إيجار لمساحة مكتبية آمنة في وسط المدينة وتخطط لتعيين حتى ثمانية متخصصين في برامج AI والهندسة بحلول نهاية السنة.
ستطور Zena AI منصات ISR، والملاحة المستقلة، وتنسيق الطائرات بدون طيار المتعددة، واتخاذ القرار في الوقت الفعلي، وواجهات تحكم بديهية، وستعزّز مشروع Eagle Eye من خلال دمج الطائرات بدون طيار المدعومة بالذكاء الاصطناعي مع البيانات التاريخية وفي الوقت الفعلي بالإضافة إلى الحوسبة الكمية. وتوضح المبادرات أنها ستتوافق مع White House AI Action Plan والثلاثة أوامر تنفيذية الصادرة في 23 يوليو 2025.
ZenaTech（纳斯达克：ZENA） 选择路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日作为 Zena AI, Inc. 的基地，美国分部，专注于用于防务和国家安全的先进 AI 驱动的无人机解决方案，宣布日期为 2025 年 10 月 23 日。公司签署了市区安全办公空间的租约，并计划到年底招聘多达 八名 AI 软件与工程专家。
Zena AI 将开发 ISR 平台、自治导航、多机协同、实时决策以及直观控制界面，并将推进 Eagle Eye 项目，将 AI 无人机与历史数据及实时数据结合，并辅以量子计算。该等举措被声明与 White House AI Action Plan 以及 2025 年 7 月 23 日发布的三项行政命令保持一致。
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Insights
Opening a US R&D hub for defense AI drones is a targeted operational move with modest near-term scale.
ZenaTech establishes Zena AI in Baton Rouge with a leased secure office and plans to hire up to eight AI and engineering specialists by the end of the year, concentrating work on ISR, autonomous navigation, multi-drone coordination and the "Eagle Eye" project integrating AI, historical and real-time data, and quantum computing.
The move tightens proximity to U.S. defense and infrastructure ecosystems and may ease collaboration with local research and aerospace talent, but the announcement contains no contract awards, funding commitments, or revenue projections; therefore, program-level impact on revenue or backlog remains undefined.
Watch hiring completion and any announced government contracts, cooperative research agreements, or funded milestones over the next 6–18 months; progress on the
Small-scale U.S. lab and targeted hires reduce execution risk but limit immediate financial significance.
The company will base its specialized AI division in Downtown Baton Rouge and staff a multidisciplinary team of AI software engineers, data scientists and systems/drone specialists, which should accelerate R&D for ZenaDrone ISR and related platforms while expanding U.S. engineering capacity.
Key dependencies include successful recruitment of up to eight specialists by the end of the year and secure facility readiness; the announcement lists no budget, timeline for prototype delivery, or contractual revenue, so operational progress is the primary short-term indicator.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV: ZENA) (“ZenaTech”), a business technology solution provider specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) drones, Drone as a Service (DaaS), Enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions, announces that it has selected Baton Rouge, Louisiana as the base for Zena AI, Inc., the company’s specialized AI division that will develop next-generation drone technologies for US defense and homeland security applications. The company has signed a lease for a secure office space in the Downtown Baton Rouge area and will be hiring up to eight AI software and engineering specialists by the end of the year.
“Selecting Baton Rouge as the US hub for Zena AI will fast-track our R&D efforts to advance research, development, and commercialization of next-generation drone technologies for defense and homeland security,” said Shaun Passley, PhD, ZenaTech CEO. “The city’s growing technology ecosystem including strong connections to defense and infrastructure resources, aerospace and engineering talent, and research resources make it an ideal location for advanced AI drone and quantum innovation.”
The facility is intended to house a multidisciplinary team of AI software engineers, data scientists, systems engineers, and drone technology specialists. The team will advance ZenaDrone’s ISR (Inspection, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) and related AI drone platforms while expanding the company’s pool of top American AI and engineering talent.
Teams will work on a range of advanced defense and homeland security applications, including autonomous navigation, multi-drone or drone fleet coordination, real-time decision-making, along with exploration of intuitive control interfaces, such as app- or voice-based drone commands for operational use. Development work will also be conducted on the Eagle Eye project, an initiative that will integrate AI drones, historical and real time data, and quantum computing to deliver a host of predictive insights, accelerated decision-making solutions, and optimized battlefield performance.
These initiatives are aligned with the White House’s AI Action Plan and the three Executive Orders issued on July 23, 2025, which prioritize domestic AI innovation, infrastructure development, and deployment of ideologically neutral AI technologies.
About ZenaTech
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV: ZENA) is a technology company specializing in AI drone, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions for mission-critical business applications. Since 2017, the Company has leveraged its software development expertise and grown its drone design and manufacturing capabilities through ZenaDrone, to innovate and improve customer inspection, monitoring, safety, security, compliance, and surveying processes. With enterprise software customers using branded solutions in law enforcement, health, government, and industrial sectors, and drones being implemented in these plus agriculture, defense, and logistics sectors, ZenaTech’s portfolio of solutions helps drive exceptional operational efficiencies, accuracy, and cost savings. The Company operates through global offices in North America, Europe, Taiwan, and UAE, and is growing its US DaaS business model and network of locations through acquisitions.
About ZenaDrone
ZenaDrone, a wholly owned subsidiary of ZenaTech, develops and manufactures autonomous business drone solutions that can incorporate machine learning software, AI, predictive modeling, Quantum Computing, and other software and hardware innovations. Created to revolutionize the hemp farming sector, its specialization has grown to multifunctional drone solutions for industrial surveillance, monitoring, inspection, tracking, process automation, and defense applications. Currently, the ZenaDrone 1000 drone is used for crop management applications in agriculture and critical field cargo applications in the defense sector, the IQ Nano indoor drone is used for inventory management and security in the warehouse and logistics sectors, and the IQ Square is an outdoor drone designed for land surveys and inspections use in commercial and defense sectors.
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This press release and related comments by management of ZenaTech, Inc. include “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of U.S. federal securities laws and applicable Canadian securities laws. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This forward-looking information relates to future events or future performance of ZenaTech and reflects management’s expectations and projections regarding ZenaTech’s growth, results of operations, performance, and business prospects and opportunities. Such forward-looking statements reflect management’s current beliefs and are based on information currently available to management. In some cases, forward-looking information can be identified by terminology such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “expect”, “plan”, “anticipate”, “aim”, “seek”, “is/are likely to”, “believe”, “estimate”, “predict”, “potential”, “continue” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking information in this document includes, but is not limited to ZenaTech’s expectations regarding its revenue, expenses, production, operations, costs, cash flows, and future growth; expectations with respect to future production costs and capacity; ZenaTech's ability to deliver products to the market as currently contemplated, including its drone products including ZenaDrone 1000 and IQ Nano; ZenaTech’s anticipated cash needs and it’s needs for additional financing; ZenaTech’s intention to grow the business and its operations and execution risk; expectations with respect to future operations and costs; the volatility of stock prices and market conditions in the industries in which ZenaTech operates; political, economic, environmental, tax, security, and other risks associated with operating in emerging markets; regulatory risks; unfavorable publicity or consumer perception; difficulty in forecasting industry trends; the ability to hire key personnel; the competitive conditions of the industry and the competitive and business strategies of ZenaTech; ZenaTech’s expected business objectives for the next twelve months; ZenaTech’s ability to obtain additional funds through the sale of equity or debt commitments; investment capital and market share; the ability to complete any contemplated acquisitions; changes in the target markets; market uncertainty; ability to access additional capital, including through the listing of its securities in various jurisdictions; management of growth (plans and timing for expansion); patent infringement; litigation; applicable laws, regulations, and any amendments affecting the business of ZenaTech.
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