AVENTURA, Fla., March 25, 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 that former Anduril Senior Business Development Director and Retired U.S. Army Officer of Acquisition, Contracting & Modernization- Brian Mack, has been appointed to Safe Pro's Strategic Advisory Board (SAB).
Mr. Mack brings a proven record in defense capture, growth strategy, and Army modernization, including a recent role supporting Anduril Industries' successful capture of the U.S. Army's $100 million Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) contract. He also helped build a $2 billion-plus Army pipeline aligned to critical C5ISR mission areas. Mr. Mack joins Safe Pro at a pivotal time as the Company seeks to accelerate revenue growth following its recent $1 million U.S. Government award for its edge AI processing solution.
Safe Pro's AI Edge processing computer vision solutions were recently further validated during a two-week U.S. Army Transforming in Contact (TiC) 2.0 exercise held at Fort Hood, TX. During the TiC, soldiers successfully operated and incorporated the Company's AI capabilities into real world brigade missions, providing invaluable and previously unavailable rapid battlefield analysis and intelligence data to commanders.
Mr. Dan Erdberg, Chairman and CEO of Safe Pro Group Inc. said, "Brian is a proven defense acquisition expert with deep relationships across the U.S. Army contracting and procurement chains, bringing timely acquisition expertise to Safe Pro Group. I look forward to working together with Brian as we continue to execute on our mission of fielding our patented AI to deliver enhanced force protection across the U.S. Army."
"I am honored to join Safe Pro's distinguished team of military and business leaders and to help drive the Company's capture and growth initiatives," said Mr. Mack. "With the Army's demand for AI-enabled capabilities continuing to increase, the market opportunity for innovative companies like Safe Pro has never been stronger. I look forward to helping expand the Company's position in real-time battlefield assessment and supporting solutions that give our warfighters a decisive advantage at the edge."
Mr. Mack has more than 20 years of leadership, management, and advisory experience spanning defense, government, and emerging technology markets. His background includes senior business development roles at SAIC, a Fortune 500 mission technology integrator serving the defense, space, civilian, and intelligence sectors, and at Silvus Technologies, where he led Army growth strategy focused on tactical networking adoption. He also served in the U.S. Army, including multiple international deployments, and developed a broad acquisition background across program management, contracting, test and evaluation, and requirements development. Mr. Mack holds an MBA from the Naval Postgraduate School.
The Company's Safe Pro Object Threat Detection (SPOTD) AI platform analyzes imagery and video from virtually any drone to automatically detect and classify explosive threats and other objects of interest. The platform converts raw video into high-resolution 2D/3D geospatial models that can be rapidly shared to support operational decision-making in defense, security, and humanitarian missions. SPOTD is capable of identifying more than 150 types of landmines and UXO, enabling scalable situational awareness across large, high-risk areas. SPOTD has been deployed in active operational environments in Ukraine for nearly three years and is supported by a growing proprietary dataset comprising over 2.4 million analyzed images more than 45,600 identified threats, and coverage of approximately 29,900 acres
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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/.
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