Strategic Partnerships That Strengthen Mission Advantage
Collaboration Built Around Mission Need
At Leonardo DRS, we believe the most effective defense solutions are built through collaboration. Our strategic partnerships bring together complementary technologies, domain expertise, and integration strengths to help address complex mission challenges across land, air, maritime, and multi-domain environments.
By working with trusted partners, we can accelerate innovation, improve interoperability, reduce deployment risk, and deliver mission-focused solutions that are more adaptable to evolving operational needs.
Why Leonardo DRS Builds Through Partnerships
Our partnership model is designed to accelerate mission value. We seek collaborators whose technologies and expertise complement our own, strengthen solution integration, and help address emerging defense priorities with speed and precision.
- Complementary Expertise: Bringing together differentiated technologies and deep domain knowledge.
- Integrated Outcomes: Connecting systems and capabilities into mission-ready solutions.
- Operational Relevance: Focusing on capabilities that solve real customer challenges in demanding environments.
Featured Partner: Hoverfly
Leonardo DRS and Hoverfly bring together complementary strengths in expeditionary power, tethered systems, and mission-enabling payload integration to support defense customers with resilient, operationally relevant capability.
This partnership reflects our focus on practical innovation: combining proven technologies in ways that expand mission flexibility, improve situational awareness, and support operators in contested and complex environments.
Learn more about Hoverfly Technologies
An Expanding Ecosystem of Strategic Collaboration
From specialized technology innovators to established organizations across defense and adjacent mission-critical sectors, Leonardo DRS works with partners whose capabilities help strengthen mission outcomes and support future-focused defense solutions.
Where We Partner
Leonardo DRS builds strategic relationships with organizations that strengthen our ability to deliver integrated, mission-relevant capability. Our partnership focus spans key areas of defense innovation and operational need.
Autonomy & Uncrewed Systems
We partner with companies advancing autonomous and uncrewed technologies that extend operational reach, improve persistence, and support more agile mission execution. These relationships help us integrate emerging capabilities into practical solutions aligned to real-world defense requirements.
Sensors, ISR & Situational Awareness
Leonardo DRS collaborates with partners across sensing and ISR to help customers gain better awareness, faster decision support, and stronger operational clarity. By combining sensor technologies with mission systems expertise, we support more connected and actionable situational understanding.
Software, AI & Data Integration
Modern defense missions depend on software-defined capability. Our partnerships in software, AI, and data integration help connect systems, accelerate analysis, and enable more informed decisions across distributed environments. These collaborations support scalable architectures designed for mission speed and adaptability.
Platform & Mission Systems Integration
Our strategic partnerships support integrated mission solutions that work across platforms and domains. By aligning technologies with system-level integration, we help deliver capabilities that are operationally relevant, interoperable, and ready to support evolving customer missions.
Industrial, Manufacturing & Deployment Ecosystem
Delivering capability requires more than innovation alone. Leonardo DRS works with partners that strengthen manufacturability, deployment readiness, sustainment, and long-term support—helping ensure solutions can move from concept to fielded capability with confidence.
Interested in Partnering with Leonardo DRS?
Leonardo DRS is focused on building partnerships that align innovation with mission need. If your organization brings differentiated capability in autonomy, sensing, software, mission systems, or adjacent defense technologies, we welcome the opportunity to explore strategic alignment.
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