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Xubin Aerospace has been selected as a 2026 CIX Startup Award winner in the Emerging category. The award recognises the most promising early-stage Canadian innovation companies scaling toward global markets.

The 2026 CIX Summit takes place on March 25, 2026 at the Design Exchange in Toronto, bringing together more than 250 founders and 200 global investors and advisors. As part of the program, our founder will present Eagle Vision™ on the CIX Summit stage as part of the Startup Awards Showcase.

The recognition follows a milestone year for Xubin Aerospace, including participation in NATO's Innovation Hackathon and Canada's DND Counter-UAS Sandbox, and continues to validate aerodynamic-signature detection as a critical layer of modern airspace defence.

Xubin Aerospace has been accepted into the first Vimy Forge cohort, named Black Flight. Vimy Forge is a new Canadian defence-innovation program designed to accelerate the companies building the technologies our forces and allies will rely on next.

Participation in Black Flight gives Xubin Aerospace direct engagement with defence stakeholders, operators, and investors focused on sovereign Canadian capability, and a structured path from field trials to operational deployment for Eagle Vision™.

We're proud to stand alongside the other companies in the cohort and to contribute to strengthening Canada's defence-innovation ecosystem.

Xubin Aerospace was selected to participate in the 2025 IDEaS Counter-UAS Sandbox, hosted by Canada's Department of National Defence — the first urban-focused CUAS Sandbox of its kind.

Eagle Vision™ was exercised against representative drone threats in complex urban airspace, alongside a curated set of Canadian and international CUAS technologies, and evaluated by defence stakeholders under realistic operating conditions.

The Sandbox provided direct operator feedback and validated aerodynamic-signature detection as a complementary sensing layer for cluttered urban environments where radar and RF are constrained.

Xubin Aerospace has secured a strategic investment from Xegasus Aviation to accelerate the development of Eagle Vision™, our passive, long-range CUAS detection platform.

The investment supports expanded engineering capacity, additional field trials with allied partners, and faster iteration on the aerodynamic-signature classification models at the core of Eagle Vision™.

We're grateful for Xegasus Aviation's confidence in our team and vision, and excited to accelerate our path from prototype to operational deployment.

Xubin Aerospace was named a winner at the NATO Innovation Hackathon 2025 for Eagle Vision™, our passive, EO/IR-based counter-UAS detection platform that classifies drones by their aerodynamic signature.

The recognition highlights the growing need for sensing layers that complement radar and RF against small, low-signature, and increasingly autonomous drones operating in cluttered airspace.

The team continues to work with allied partners to move Eagle Vision™ from field trials to operational pilots.