IDS

IDS — Ingegneria Dei Sistemi — is an Italian engineering and systems-integration company headquartered in Pisa, founded in 1980 to build an engineering centre of excellence serving both civil and defence markets. The company's business areas include unmanned systems, avionics, electromagnetic engineering, safety and protection systems, and satellite communication; it has also worked on ground-penetrating radar and geophysical survey instruments outside the aerospace line. In September 2021, the Bardelli family's Finsis holding sold its stake in IDS to Fincantieri NexTech, making IDS part of the Fincantieri group.

IDS's unmanned-systems division has researched and developed ground control stations, data links, and unmanned aerial, ground and underwater vehicles for more than a decade. On the aircraft side, the catalogue lists the fixed-wing IA-17, a close-range tactical UAS for patrol, surveillance and infrastructure inspection, and the micro-class rotary-wing IA-3 Colibrì, aimed at reconnaissance, search and rescue, and urban surveillance; IDS has also marketed a larger fixed-wing IA-12 Stark, which does not have its own page on this site. IDS pairs its aircraft with its own ground control stations, encrypted data links, and a range of electro-optical, infrared, LiDAR and electronic-countermeasure payloads.