• The acquisition of AI-enabled command and control leader, MARSS, represents a strategic step change, enabling EOS to provide integrated counter-drone systems.
  • EOS and MARSS will showcase the strength of their combined offering at EUROSATORY 2026.

Electro Optic Systems (ASX: EOS) has completed the acquisition of MARSS’ defence business, uniting EOS’s world-leading effectors with MARSS’s battle proven, AI-enabled command and control to create a global, integrated counter-drone solutions provider. The combined businesses are showcasing the strength of their combined offering at the EUROSATORY 2026 show in Paris 15 through 19 June.

EOS and MARSS are longstanding partners, having worked together for several years on counter-drone and security programmes across multiple theatres. Bringing MARSS into EOS is the natural next step in that relationship, combining EOS’s scale, reach and engineering depth with MARSS’s battle proven technology.

The benefit to customers is integration and simplicity. One company now delivers a full counter-drone capability, from detect and identify through to decide and defeat, accountable for the whole system and able to scale it from a single site to a nationwide programme.

At the heart of the deal is MARSS’ is NiDAR, the AI-enabled command and control and sensor-fusion platform. NiDAR delivers complete situational awareness, detecting and identifying threats and supporting the decision to act across all domains (air, land, surface and sub-surface), drawing inputs from multiple sources into a single, clear operating picture so operators can make faster, better-informed decisions. As the platform is open and modular, it can also integrate a customer’s existing and third-party sensors, effectors and command systems, protecting prior investment rather than demanding wholesale replacement.

Integrated into NiDAR and to benefit of customers are EOS’ counter-drone solutions including the various suite of remote weapon systems and new high-energy laser weapon systems. The result is a single, seamless capability, delivered by one group, that carries a customer from the first detection of a threat through to its defeat, be it a lone drone or a coordinated swarm.

Dr Andreas Schwer, EOS Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, commented:

“Bringing MARSS into EOS transforms what we can offer our customers. We move from supplying best-in-class effectors to delivering complete, AI-enabled counter-drone systems that are designed, integrated and supported by one company.

“NiDAR is operationally proven in some of the most demanding environments in the world and combining it with our remote weapon systems and high-energy laser capability gives customers a layered, intelligent response to drone threats across every domain. We are delighted to welcome the MARSS team to EOS, and to be showcasing our combined strengths together at Eurosatory.”

Johannes Pinl, MARSS Founder and Chief Executive Officer, added: 

“I am proud of what the MARSS team has built with NiDAR, and of the trust our customers place in us to protect their most critical assets. Joining EOS is an exciting step that does not change who we are: the same team, the same focus and the same commitment to our customers, now with the strength of a global group behind us.

“Together we can offer what the market has been asking for, genuine end-to-end protection from a single partner. For our customers, that means greater capability, delivered faster, and a clearer path to staying ahead of a fast-evolving drone threat.”

As one group, EOS, with MARSS, is now positioned to springboard innovation, merge expertise, and to win and deliver larger, more complex programmes, and is capable of protecting a wide range of assets, from high value military sites to critical national infrastructure and other civilian assets worldwide.

Importantly, it is business as usual for MARSS’ customers and partners. The business will continue to operate as “MARSS, an EOS Company”, under its existing leadership, with founder and CEO Johannes Pinl and the current management team remaining in place.

Visitors to Eurosatory 2026 in Paris can see the combined capability at first hand, with EOS and MARSS exhibiting NiDAR alongside EOS’ systems in Hall 5A, stand H335.