MARSS Wins £370 Million Contract for AI-Powered Counter-Drone System in Kuwait
The UK firm will build a national air and maritime counter-drone system based on its NiDAR AI command-and-control platform; contract value is vendor-reported.
UK-based MARSS has won a £370 million contract to build a national air and maritime counter-drone system for Kuwait, defence trade media reported on October 30. The system is based on the company's NiDAR platform: an AI command-and-control layer that fuses electro-optical, radar and sonar feeds across multiple sites, performs automatic threat classification and recommends engagement options, paired with hard-kill interceptors and soft-kill jammers.
The award sits under the UK's Taskforce Sabre initiative for Gulf states, part of a broader push to supply counter-drone capability to partners in the region.
The contract illustrates where the counter-UAS market is heading: from standalone sensors toward AI sensor fusion and decision support spanning domains. The contract value and scope are vendor-reported figures, and the military counter-drone market is not directly accessible to most private suppliers without certification and prime-contractor partnerships.