Building a Defence Against Drones

SDTH Winner (3 Month Challenge) Vaikesh Manimaran, Maelstrom

Key Points:

• Real-time defensive systems force hard trade-offs between speed, accuracy, cost, and reliability - there's no perfect solution, only chosen compromises
• Working directly with operators and defence experts surfaces problems and constraints that pure lab development would never reveal
• If the prize funding is being used to accelerate MAELSTROM's development beyond the hackathon prototype