Safe Pro lands UN-backed Ukraine demining contract

Safe Pro Group won a contract from the Ukrainian Deminers Association under a United Nations Mine Action Service program to deploy its AI landmine mapping technology in Ukraine. The deal adds another demining-related win for the company as Ukraine continues to face a national humanitarian clearance crisis.

Why it matters: - Ukraine has more than six million people living in or near heavily mined and contaminated areas. - Safe Pro says the contamination is hurting about $11 billion in agriculture activity each year. - AI-assisted mapping and drone-based inspection could speed up humanitarian demining and support Ukraine’s economic recovery.

What happened: - Safe Pro Group Inc. said it won a contract from the Ukrainian Deminers Association under a United Nations Mine Action Service program. - The agreement is for Safe Pro to deliver AI technology to support Ukraine’s national demining response. - The company also said this follows a recent U.S. Department of State subcontract for a sponsored demining project in Ukraine.

The details: - The initial project will use Safe Pro’s SpotlightAI platform. - SpotlightAI is a cloud-based, hyper-scalable AI image analysis and threat mapping platform. - The system is designed to show how drones and remote sensing can inspect contaminated territories. - The goal is to bring modern technology into quality management for humanitarian demining across Ukraine. - Safe Pro said SpotlightAI runs on Amazon Web Services and analyzes imagery collected by commercial off-the-shelf drones. - The platform is part of Safe Pro’s patented Ground Truth software ecosystem. - Safe Pro said its AI and machine learning models were trained on one of the world’s largest real-world drone imagery datasets. - The company said that dataset includes more than 3.2 million drone images and over 60,200 confirmed detections across more than 40,520 acres in Ukraine. - Safe Pro said more information on its landmine and UXO detection results is available here. - Safe Pro Group is a B2i Digital Featured Company, with an in-depth profile available here. - Safe Pro also directs readers to its corporate site here.

Between the lines: - The contract gives Safe Pro another foothold in a high-profile defense and humanitarian use case for its AI tools. - The company is positioning its software as a faster alternative to traditional human-based analysis for explosive-threat detection. - UNMAS involvement signals international backing, which may help validate the technology in future deployments. - Safe Pro chairman and CEO Dan Erdberg framed the deal as part of a broader mission to support humanitarian deminers in Ukraine.

What's next: - Safe Pro and the Ukrainian Deminers Association will work with UNMAS support to strengthen Ukraine’s humanitarian demining capabilities. - The project is expected to test how well AI mapping and drone imagery can be integrated into operational demining workflows. - Safe Pro said the agreement could support broader use of its technology by government, military and humanitarian organizations. - The company’s forward-looking statements warn that future use, adoption and business results may differ from current expectations.

The bottom line: - Safe Pro is turning battlefield-adjacent AI into a practical demining product, and Ukraine is now the latest proving ground.