‍What ACRE does

ACRE is built for environments where multiple aerial platforms operate simultaneously and the cost of confusion is high - firefighting, search and rescue, police operations, and combined manned–unmanned military missions. The platform handles strategic and tactical deconfliction in real time and produces a Common Operational Picture (COP) that merges all the resources and units involved into a single interface. A human operator stays in the loop for final decisions, with the system surfacing options rather than acting autonomously.

VIG-SEC Drone has already validated ACRE in real-world conditions, including coordinated exercises with Spanish Ministry of Defence helicopters and multinational exercises with the BRILAT airborne light infantry brigade in Slovakia.

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What the integration adds

With Dronetag plugged in, ACRE gains a Remote ID layer that works in two directions:

• Cooperative identification. Drones flying with Dronetag transmitters - used by operators in over 30 countries for compliant Remote ID broadcast - appear directly inside the ACRE Common Operational Picture.

• Detection of third-party drones. Dronetag Scout and RIDER receivers detect drones broadcasting Remote ID across a wide range and feed those tracks into the same view. Operators see not only their own assets, but also drones around them that they did not deploy.

The result is fewer blind spots in the airspace ACRE is asked to manage, particularly in mixed civil-military scenarios where the airspace cannot be cleared and traffic has to be coordinated rather than excluded.

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Who it is for

The combined capability is aimed at the operators who already use ACRE and similar platforms for emergency response and defense:

• Fire and rescue services running drone operations alongside crewed helicopters

• Police and public safety agencies needing situational awareness over events and incidents

• Defense units conducting exercises or operations where drones and crewed aircraft share airspace

• Critical infrastructure and event security operators managing both their own fleet and external drone activity

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DIANA on both sides

The integration sits inside a wider story. Both companies have been selected by NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), the Alliance's program for dual-use deep tech. Dronetag completed the program in 2024. VIG-SEC Drone joined the current cohort, announced in early 2026, with ACRE as the technology under development.

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DIANA is designed to connect startups with operational end users across NATO. Integrations like this one are a practical outcome of that model - two companies validated through the same program now interoperating in a way operators can deploy.

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For more on the ACRE Suite, visit vigsecdrone.com. For Dronetag's detection and identification portfolio, see dronetag.com.