Announcement Regarding the Start of Initiatives to Build a Domestic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform for Disaster Response, Critical Infrastructure, and Security Domains
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- Announcement Regarding the Start of Initiatives to Build a Domestic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform for Disaster Response, Critical Infrastructure, and Security Domains
- Liberaware Inc. has initiated efforts to build a domestic UAV platform applicable to disaster response, critical infrastructure, and security. Leveraging its small drone technology, the company aims to strengthen its development, manufacturing, and supply system through collaboration with related companies, contributing to enhanced public safety.
- Source: PR Times
- Date: June 13, 2026
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Liberaware Inc. has initiated efforts to build a domestic UAV platform applicable to disaster response, critical infrastructure, and security. Leveraging its small drone technology, the company aims to strengthen its development, manufacturing, and supply system through collaboration with related companies, contributing to enhanced public safety.
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- Announcement Regarding the Start of Initiatives to Build a Domestic Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform for Disaster Response, Critical Infrastructure, and Security Domains (June 13, 2026), PR Times
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- PR Times
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- June 13, 2026
Liberaware Inc. has initiated efforts to build a domestic UAV platform applicable to disaster response, critical infrastructure, and security. Leveraging its small drone technology, the company aims to strengthen its development, manufacturing, and supply system through collaboration with related companies, contributing to enhanced public safety.
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Liberaware Inc. (Headquarters: Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture, CEO: Hongkyu Min, hereinafter referred to as "the Company") is pleased to announce that it will commence initiatives to build a domestic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) development, manufacturing, and supply system that can be utilized in disaster response, critical infrastructure preservation, and security domains, in addition to industrial infrastructure inspection, based on its cultivated small drone technology for indoor, confined spaces, and non-GPS environments.
In this initiative, the Company will build upon its strengths in small drone development, special environment adaptation, remote operation, and data acquisition/analysis. Moving forward, it aims to establish a stable development, manufacturing, and supply system for domestic UAVs by collaborating with related companies and organizations concerning parts, communication/control, manufacturing, quality control, and maintenance.
■ Background of Business Development
Under its mission to "Create a Safe Society for Everyone," the Company has accumulated expertise across the entire process from airframe development, field operations, data acquisition, to image analysis and AI analysis, by providing inspection and survey solutions using domestic drones in special environments such as indoor, confined spaces, dark areas, and non-GPS environments.
In recent years, against the backdrop of intensifying natural disasters, aging critical infrastructure, labor shortages, and changes in the international situation, the importance of UAV technology for conducting surveys, monitoring, and response with reduced human risk in domains related to disaster response, critical infrastructure preservation, and security has been increasing. The technologies required in these areas share a commonality: grasping situations, surveying, monitoring, and acquiring information on behalf of humans in dangerous and difficult environments.
Furthermore, to promote the social implementation of domestic UAVs, we believe that establishing a domestic supply system, including design for mass production, quality control, parts procurement, maintenance, continuous supply, information management, and supply chain resilience, is crucial, not only for improving airframe performance.
Especially to continuously enhance the competitiveness of domestic drones, it is important to develop a broad industrial base that includes not only airframe development but also constituent parts, communication/control, manufacturing, quality control, and maintenance, and to consider supply chain structures that do not excessively depend on specific countries.
Under these circumstances, the Company will evolve its technologies in small drones, special environment adaptation, remote operation, and data acquisition/analysis, cultivated in the industrial infrastructure inspection domain, into a domestic dual-use UAV platform deployable in disaster response, critical infrastructure preservation, and security domains.
This initiative is not a new market entry separate from existing businesses. Industrial infrastructure, disaster response, critical infrastructure preservation, and security domains all share the common challenge of "enhancing response capabilities in dangerous and difficult environments to protect the safety of national life." The Company aims to contribute to the development of Japan's drone industry and to "Create a Safe Society for Everyone" through strengthening the competitiveness of domestic drones, promoting social implementation, and establishing a stable supply system.
■ About Business Development
(1) Business Overview
This initiative aims to strengthen the competitiveness of domestic drones, promote their social implementation, and establish a stable supply system. It involves the development, manufacturing, sales, operational support, and maintenance of products and solutions centered around domestic UAVs.
Specifically, we will advance the development of domestic UAVs utilizing our cultivated technologies in small drones, special environment adaptation, remote operation, and data acquisition/analysis for applications such as situational awareness, surveys, monitoring, and disaster response support at disaster sites, critical facilities, and critical infrastructure.
Furthermore, considering future societal challenges and security needs, we will explore the development and commercialization of UAVs that contribute to airspace safety, UAVs for information gathering and surveillance, and other related products and solutions through collaboration with relevant companies and organizations.
This initiative anticipates the development and implementation of UAV technology for the purpose of protecting human lives, assessing damage, preserving critical infrastructure, and gathering information/surveillance, and will be promoted based on our mission to "Create a Safe Society for Everyone."
(2) Building Domestic Supply Chain and Collaboration System
As described in the background section, strengthening the competitiveness and promoting the social implementation of domestic UAVs requires not only airframe development capabilities but also high reliability, quality control, continuous supply capacity, maintenance support, and supply chain stability.
Based on our cultivated technologies in indoor small drone development, special environment operation know-how, and data acquisition/analysis implementation capabilities, the Company will proceed with collaborations with related companies and organizations concerning communication/control, electronic devices, constituent parts, manufacturing, quality control, and maintenance. Through this, we aim to strengthen the system from development, manufacturing, supply, to maintenance of domestic UAVs.
■ Future Promotion Method
The Company positions this initiative as an extension of the technologies, customer base, and field implementation capabilities cultivated in the existing industrial infrastructure inspection domain. While advancing collaborations with related companies and organizations, we will proceed step-by-step with product/solution development, strengthening the supply system, and considering business commercialization.
Specific promotion structures, investment scale, and implementation timing will be determined based on future business development studies, discussions with partners, customer needs, and profitability. As of now, there are no decided organizational reforms, subsidiary establishments, or capital policies.
About Liberaware Inc.
Liberaware Inc., with its mission "Create a Safe Society for Everyone," develops some of the world's smallest drones specializing in inspection and measurement in "narrow, dark, and dangerous" indoor spaces. They also provide infrastructure inspection and maintenance solutions by analyzing image data collected by these drones. The company is dedicated to its vision of "Visualizing Invisible Risks" to deliver a safe and peaceful society to people.
Company Name: Liberaware Inc.
Representative: Hongkyu Min
Location: Chuo 3-3-1, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Established: August 22, 2016
Business Activities:
- Drone Business: Survey, inspection, and measurement services using drones, sales and rental services for self-developed drones.
- Digital Twin Business: Image processing and data analysis services for data acquired by drones, and licensing of our image processing technology.
- Solution Development Business: Contract development business providing a wide range of solutions from hardware to software.
URL: https://liberaware.co.jp/
X Account: https://x.com/liberaware
In this initiative, the Company will build upon its strengths in small drone development, special environment adaptation, remote operation, and data acquisition/analysis. Moving forward, it aims to establish a stable development, manufacturing, and supply system for domestic UAVs by collaborating with related companies and organizations concerning parts, communication/control, manufacturing, quality control, and maintenance.
■ Background of Business Development
Under its mission to "Create a Safe Society for Everyone," the Company has accumulated expertise across the entire process from airframe development, field operations, data acquisition, to image analysis and AI analysis, by providing inspection and survey solutions using domestic drones in special environments such as indoor, confined spaces, dark areas, and non-GPS environments.
In recent years, against the backdrop of intensifying natural disasters, aging critical infrastructure, labor shortages, and changes in the international situation, the importance of UAV technology for conducting surveys, monitoring, and response with reduced human risk in domains related to disaster response, critical infrastructure preservation, and security has been increasing. The technologies required in these areas share a commonality: grasping situations, surveying, monitoring, and acquiring information on behalf of humans in dangerous and difficult environments.
Furthermore, to promote the social implementation of domestic UAVs, we believe that establishing a domestic supply system, including design for mass production, quality control, parts procurement, maintenance, continuous supply, information management, and supply chain resilience, is crucial, not only for improving airframe performance.
Especially to continuously enhance the competitiveness of domestic drones, it is important to develop a broad industrial base that includes not only airframe development but also constituent parts, communication/control, manufacturing, quality control, and maintenance, and to consider supply chain structures that do not excessively depend on specific countries.
Under these circumstances, the Company will evolve its technologies in small drones, special environment adaptation, remote operation, and data acquisition/analysis, cultivated in the industrial infrastructure inspection domain, into a domestic dual-use UAV platform deployable in disaster response, critical infrastructure preservation, and security domains.
This initiative is not a new market entry separate from existing businesses. Industrial infrastructure, disaster response, critical infrastructure preservation, and security domains all share the common challenge of "enhancing response capabilities in dangerous and difficult environments to protect the safety of national life." The Company aims to contribute to the development of Japan's drone industry and to "Create a Safe Society for Everyone" through strengthening the competitiveness of domestic drones, promoting social implementation, and establishing a stable supply system.
■ About Business Development
(1) Business Overview
This initiative aims to strengthen the competitiveness of domestic drones, promote their social implementation, and establish a stable supply system. It involves the development, manufacturing, sales, operational support, and maintenance of products and solutions centered around domestic UAVs.
Specifically, we will advance the development of domestic UAVs utilizing our cultivated technologies in small drones, special environment adaptation, remote operation, and data acquisition/analysis for applications such as situational awareness, surveys, monitoring, and disaster response support at disaster sites, critical facilities, and critical infrastructure.
Furthermore, considering future societal challenges and security needs, we will explore the development and commercialization of UAVs that contribute to airspace safety, UAVs for information gathering and surveillance, and other related products and solutions through collaboration with relevant companies and organizations.
This initiative anticipates the development and implementation of UAV technology for the purpose of protecting human lives, assessing damage, preserving critical infrastructure, and gathering information/surveillance, and will be promoted based on our mission to "Create a Safe Society for Everyone."
(2) Building Domestic Supply Chain and Collaboration System
As described in the background section, strengthening the competitiveness and promoting the social implementation of domestic UAVs requires not only airframe development capabilities but also high reliability, quality control, continuous supply capacity, maintenance support, and supply chain stability.
Based on our cultivated technologies in indoor small drone development, special environment operation know-how, and data acquisition/analysis implementation capabilities, the Company will proceed with collaborations with related companies and organizations concerning communication/control, electronic devices, constituent parts, manufacturing, quality control, and maintenance. Through this, we aim to strengthen the system from development, manufacturing, supply, to maintenance of domestic UAVs.
■ Future Promotion Method
The Company positions this initiative as an extension of the technologies, customer base, and field implementation capabilities cultivated in the existing industrial infrastructure inspection domain. While advancing collaborations with related companies and organizations, we will proceed step-by-step with product/solution development, strengthening the supply system, and considering business commercialization.
Specific promotion structures, investment scale, and implementation timing will be determined based on future business development studies, discussions with partners, customer needs, and profitability. As of now, there are no decided organizational reforms, subsidiary establishments, or capital policies.
About Liberaware Inc.
Liberaware Inc., with its mission "Create a Safe Society for Everyone," develops some of the world's smallest drones specializing in inspection and measurement in "narrow, dark, and dangerous" indoor spaces. They also provide infrastructure inspection and maintenance solutions by analyzing image data collected by these drones. The company is dedicated to its vision of "Visualizing Invisible Risks" to deliver a safe and peaceful society to people.
Company Name: Liberaware Inc.
Representative: Hongkyu Min
Location: Chuo 3-3-1, Chuo-ku, Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture
Established: August 22, 2016
Business Activities:
- Drone Business: Survey, inspection, and measurement services using drones, sales and rental services for self-developed drones.
- Digital Twin Business: Image processing and data analysis services for data acquired by drones, and licensing of our image processing technology.
- Solution Development Business: Contract development business providing a wide range of solutions from hardware to software.
URL: https://liberaware.co.jp/
X Account: https://x.com/liberaware
FAQ
What is Liberaware's new business initiative?
They have started initiatives to develop, manufacture, and supply a domestic UAV platform for disaster response, critical infrastructure, and security sectors.
What technology forms the basis of this initiative?
It is based on small drone technology cultivated in indoor, confined, and non-GPS environments, along with expertise in remote operation and data acquisition/analysis.
Why is the company focusing on these sectors?
Due to the intensification of natural disasters and the increasing importance of national security, the demand for UAV technology that reduces human risk is growing.
What is the significance of building a domestic supply chain?
It aims to enhance the competitiveness of domestic drones, ensure stable supply, reduce dependence on specific countries, and develop the industrial base.
What are the future prospects?
Through collaboration with related companies, they aim to strengthen the development, manufacturing, and supply system, contributing to public safety and the development of the drone industry.