TRD Systems has over ten years of experience in the counter-uncrewed aerial system (cUAS) field and wants to expand its clientele. At the Modern Day Marine expo in Washington, DC, the Singaporean company spoke with Zona Militar about its projects and customers, including in South America.
TRD already provides a full spectrum of cUAS solutions, from detection to neutralization solutions using RF jamming and GPS or GNSS spoofing. “Our systems can locate the drone and neutralize it via non-kinetic solutions,” said Denise Ong, Senior Corporate Specialist, highlighting the vast library of drone signatures the company’s systems can identify and neutralize.
“Our strength is RF detection, and the source is our drone library; we have tested and collected the signatures of around 400-500 drones. We know what’s out there, and our users using our systems can tell what’s out there,” the company told ZM. Eliminating a target works in two steps: situational awareness and jamming.
Colombia is already a customer of TRD. “We have delivered systems for the Colombian government and military, mostly portable cUAS systems,” Ong said. While the company declined to discuss specific projects, they confirmed, “we are working on different opportunities, and we are working towards bigger projects.” TRD also wants to increase its presence in Latin America. “We see lots of potential in Latin America for our cUAS systems.”
At Modern Day Marine, the company showcased its family of portable systems, including its manpack and handheld versions. One system present at MDM was TRD’s handheld spoofer Orion-SP HH, which won an award at the recent IDEX 2025 expo in Abu Dhabi. MDM 2025 was the first time TRD participated in this particular US trade show, but the company also participated in the 2024 Marine Industry Day to engage the US Marine Corps.
Other detection systems at MDM were the Orion-D MP (manpack) version and the Orion-D Fixed Site (also known as Birthday Cake, BDC). “Several armed forces are interested in our portable manpack versions because they can be iterated and reconfigured easily,” Ong noted. Because the Orion MP is lightweight, “we can easily adjust the weight and scale of the jammers and spoofers to fit the military’s needs,” the company told ZM.
As for clientele, the company has over 30 clients across the globe, including Singapore’s armed forces. Canada’s Department of Defense has also obtained TRD’s systems and deployed them to Latvia to help its fellow NATO countries in the Baltic – this is a US$2 million contract, and deliveries are ongoing. “A batch was delivered recently,” TRD told ZM, and deliveries will continue as “the order was for a big quantity of our systems.”
TRD’s capabilities are based on the strength of the cUAs systems and how they can work together. For example, the H10 handheld gun has “10 frequencies for drone jamming; it is the most advanced in the industry,” the company told ZM. The H10 has different versions, a light handheld system (Orion-H10), a manpack version (Orion-10 MP), and a larger version (Orion-11+ or Orion-12) that can be placed on vehicles or remain static in vital locations.
Moreover, the company’s cUAS products can operate as a family of systems. “They can work with each other as nodes as part of a wider network, to provide total coverage,” Ong added. Looking to the future, TRD is also looking into kinetic solutions for cUAS missions.
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