Dutch Startup Intelic Launches European Military Drone Marketplace BASE

Dutch defense-technology startup Intelic has set up a European military drone marketplace that brings together drone manufacturers from nine European countries. The platform, called BASE, aims to speed up procurement by allowing militaries to compare various available unmanned systems.

Defense News reported that the marketplace will enable defense ministries to shop for drones from different manufacturers that can work together via Intelic's Nexus command-and-control software.

Intelic issued a statement on Monday announcing the initiative. The marketplace was inspired by procurement models developed in Ukraine, where the Brave1 platform connects frontline units with drone manufacturers. One difference with Brave1 is that Ukrainian military units can buy directly from their marketplace, while European Union procurement is not set up for direct buying by military units.

BASE will allow defense ministries to explore systems that are ready to be used in a coalition framework. The platform will allow buyers to access confidential information about the systems and their use cases, as well as the application of the Nexus software.

Intelic is finalizing an agreement to provide the Royal Netherlands Army’s drone units with its Nexus software, which will give the Dutch access to the BASE procurement platform.

Intelic is in talks with several other European ministries of defense. Drone manufacturers signed up for the marketplace include Portugal’s Tekever and Beyond Vision, the Netherlands’ DeltaQuad, Avy, Acecore Technologies and Height Technologies, Germany’s Highcat, Latvia’s Origin Robotics and Slovakia’s Airvolute. The partners also include drone makers from France, the United Kingdom and Ukraine.

Delivering drones acquired via the BASE marketplace will be the responsibility of the manufacturers. Intelic will guarantee interoperability through its Nexus software. The Intelic marketplace specifically targets unmanned aerial vehicles for now.

76 billion) this year. Intelic will add full life-cycle support, for example by adding feedback and maintenance requests. Interoperability between drones from different manufacturers is achieved by having them all run on Intelic’s Nexus command-and-control software.

Intelic’s Nexus software has been in use in Ukraine since 2025. Nexus software has been used by Gurzuf Defence for its Heavy Shot family of drones. The Dutch startup has been working to integrate its Nexus software on Skyeton’s Raybird UAV platform.

Nexus has some overlap with Anduril’s Lattice command-and-control software. Intelic’s software is primarily platform-agnostic, and Intelic does not sell hardware.