Joint Capability Group Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Spring Meeting

9 - 12 March 2026
Marine Etablissement, Kattenburgerstraat 7, 1018 JA Amsterdam, Netherlands

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The JCGUAS is the source of technical and operational UAS information for NATO and addresses UAS issues including acquisition design, employment, the demonstration of UAS System capabilities, identification of a common approach to airspace management, complementary use among UAS Categories, operator training and standards, and doctrine including tactics/operational procedures. The Group also looks to enhance and facilitate interoperability, develop a common standard of data transmission and address the provision for complimentary uses of different fleets, tactics, techniques and procedures.

The overall aim of the group is to improve the operational effectiveness of UAS in NATO and coalition environments by ensuring availability, interoperability, utility and operational integrity of UAS.

JCGUAS Conference Mission

  • Explore developments, plans and current thinking
  • Seek innovative input for futures thinking
  • Provide thought leadership on current hot issues
  • Demonstrate level of collaboration with allies and partners
  • Enable meetings between nations to enhance dialogue
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information on corporate partnerships at this and future NATO UAS events

Strategic Partners

Metrea
Tekever
CallenLenz
Quantum systems
Integrate

Corporate Sponsors

Malloy
Airbus
General Atomics
Shield AI

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Metrea

Metrea is the originator and leading provider of effects-as-a-service to national security partners across multiple domains, including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial fire-fighting, and advanced simulation.

We seek out complex national security challenges and build vertically integrated ‘full stacks’ of capability – designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions delivered as-a-service. This gives partners true agility, allowing them to scale capabilities as requirements change. With full-stack ownership, we drive continuous improvement by turning field insights into rapid innovations and integrating them directly into operations.

Metrea are true partners with skin in the game – our success is measured by how effective, efficient, and adaptable our solutions are in delivering real-world outcomes. We are deliberately configured to mitigate and share risk in every mission.

Headquartered in Washington D.C., Metrea operates across the United States, United Kingdom, and EU globally.

Tekever

TEKEVER (www.tekever.com) is a leading pan-European technology company driving innovation in Defence & Security through AI-centric Autonomous Systems. With a fully vertically integrated model – spanning Aerospace structural engineering, design and manufacturing, propulsion systems, complex optical and RF payload development, communication systems, avionics, software, data science and artificial intelligence – TEKEVER delivers complete, end-to-end systems and services tailored to the complex demands of modern security operations. With a highly skilled and rapidly growing workforce of more than 1200, and cutting-edge facilities spread throughout the UK, Portugal, France and Ukraine, TEKEVER delivers capabilities that evolve at pace and deliver at scale.

CallenLenz

Callen-Lenz (CL) is a UK leader in the design, development and delivery of payload-agnostic, open-architecture Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), from micro-UAS to Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) aircraft exceeding 150kg MTOW. 

Our full-spectrum capabilities include prototype design, end-to-end hardware, firmware, and software design, payload integration, and ground control systems, supported by secure, rapid flight test and evaluation processes. CL also deliver high-rate manufacture, operational ‘Capability as a Service’, training and in-service support.  

CL provides tailored solutions to civil and defence partners, ensuring operational readiness, safety, and mission success in highly contested and challenging environments. 

Quantum systems

In high-intensity conflicts such as Russia’s war against Ukraine, real-time intelligence is critical to locating targets, assessing effects, and maintaining situational awareness in fast-changing and contested environments. Quantum Systems is a global deep-tech company specializing in unmanned systems. By integrating robust hardware with intelligent software, Quantum Systems delivers resilient, multi-sensor ISR platforms designed for demanding operational conditions, providing real-time intelligence to support time-critical decisions. Quantum Systems integrates autonomous platforms, advanced sensor technologies, secure communications, and AI-enabled data processing into end-to-end, mission ready solutions. These capabilities enable precise situational awareness, accelerated decision-making, and reliable execution across domains and in real time.

Integrate

Integrate DG (IDG) is a next-generation unmanned systems developer and producer operating at the forefront of the defence sector. We unite world-class expertise from across the globe to rapidly design, develop, and manufacture unmanned systems (UAS, UUV, USV) built for real wartime conditions. Our strength lies in speed, adaptability, and offensive capability—delivering proven technologies that perform where it matters most: on the battlefield. By continuously evolving with the operational environment, Integrate DG stays ahead of the enemy, ensuring relevance, resilience, and decisive advantage. We don’t just build unmanned systems—we build combat-ready capability, faster than the fight can change.

Integrate DG has strategic locations across UK, EU, US, and Australia.

Malloy

Malloy Aeronautics are a class leading heavy lift logistics UAS technology and manufacturing company based near Maidenhead UK.  

The Malloy T150 (68kg payload) is in full rate manufacture. 700+ systems are operated and in service with UK/USA/Ukraine/Japan/Netherlands & Mexico. 

Vertically integrated, Malloy manufacture their own batteries/ESC’s/motors/PCB’s/carbon components and drop mechanisms. 

Proven in the Battlefield, has demonstrated successful APKWS live-fires including C-UAS air-to-air strikes, mortar drops & tactical smoke generation plus other value-added capabilities. 

The all-new Malloy T400 (180kg payload) is in low-rate production having been born from successful 200kg training variant torpedo drop at REPMUS23.  Hybrid technology options are under analysis.

Airbus

In today’s complex threat environment, Airbus ensures superiority across land, air, sea, space and cyber domains with interoperable solutions.

As the prime contractor for Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS), we lead the development of advanced networks of crewed and uncrewed platforms. The Multi-Domain Combat Cloud (MDCC) showcases our innovation in cyber-resilient and cloud-based military communications.

Our world-class portfolio includes the Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft, the A400M airlifter, the C295 and CN235 tactical transport aircraft, the A330 MRTT refuelling tanker and reliable Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS). These include the new class of large, long-endurance Eurodrone – currently under development – and the tactical SIRTAP.

uAvionix provides advanced surveillance and communications solutions for UAS; specializing in certified, low-SWaP Cross-Domain solutions to enhance defense operations and secure identification.

We Are: The world leader in unmanned aerial systems.

We invent and pioneer modern solutions for military, security, governance, environmental operations and more.

We support our customers with the greatest medium-altitude and small unmanned aircraft systems, and cutting-edge mission payload and exploitation technologies.

Our Vision: Enabling information dominance.

Our Mission: Provide persistent, versatile, affordable airborne surveillance and effects, and turn surveillance data into actionable intelligence.

 

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is a global defense technology company driving innovation and advancing scientific discovery. Our all-domain mission solutions and 21st Century Security vision accelerate the delivery of transformative technologies to ensure those we serve always stay ahead of ready. More information at Lockheedmartin.com

Shield AI

Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company developing autonomy software and aircraft. Its platform-agnostic Hivemind software enables autonomous operations in contested environments, powering Shield AI systems like the V-BAT Group 3 VTOL UAS and X-BAT multirole fighter jet, along with other air, sea, and land platforms.