CHAOS Industries says it has been added to the U.S. Army’s Global Tactical Edge Acquisition Directorate, or G-TEAD, Marketplace after taking part in Project Flytrap 4.5 at Putlos, Germany. The Army has described Flytrap 4.5 as a nearly two week effort where U.S. soldiers and NATO forces tested counter-UAS tech against simulated drone threats, with an eye toward fast fielding at the tactical edge.
“We applaud the Army in creating a marketplace to allow ASCCs to quickly acquire emerging technology,” said John Tenet, CEO. “The addition to the G‑TEAD Marketplace represents a significant step forward in making our Coherent Distributed Networks capabilities available to commanders across the theater who need them, and we look forward to working with the Army and our NATO partners throughout 2026 and beyond.”
The practical point of the G-TEAD Marketplace is speed. It is meant to let Army Service Component Commands, plus NATO buyers where allowed, pick up mature gear faster, without each unit reinventing the contracting wheel. A public posting for G-TEAD describes a marketplace approach aimed at rapid acquisition of TRL 6 and above solutions for the U.S., NATO, and other partners.
CHAOS says the item being advanced here is VANQUISH, a distributed early warning radar built for low size, weight, and power, with short to mid range detection and tracking of unmanned aircraft, missiles, and aircraft. The company frames it as an expeditionary sensing node that can complement existing command and control and effector stacks, not replace them.
CHAOS says it will support continued Army experimentation with an on site presence for training, integration support, and quick product changes based on operator feedback. That matters because counter-UAS is not a lab sport. It lives or dies on setup time, false alarms, clutter, how it talks to other systems, and whether the crew trusts what the screen is telling them when the sky gets busy.
