Leonardo DRS has integrated its Maritime Mission Equipment Package onto a Sea Machines STORMRUNNER autonomous unmanned surface vessel, extending counter-drone detection and defeat capability to uncrewed maritime platforms.

The company unveiled the integrated system at the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Symposium this week.

The M-MEP combines maritime radar and EO-IR sensors with the company’s SAGEcore software platform, which handles AI-enabled sensor fusion and command and control. A platform integration kit is designed to accelerate installation across multiple vessel types, including both crewed ships and USVs. The system is intended to compress the timeline from requirement to fielded capability by packaging detection, tracking, identification, and defeat functions into a single modular solution.

Leonardo DRS frames the requirement around the expanding threat envelope: commercial quadcopters at the low end, longer-range and more autonomous UAS at the high end, both representing persistent risk to ships, ports, littoral infrastructure, and expeditionary forces. The M-MEP is positioned as a scalable layer within a broader defensive architecture rather than a standalone system.