Ondas Inc. (Nasdaq: ONDS) announced a $56 million order for Electronic Safe & Arm Devices, known as ESADs, to support a European loitering munition program, according to a company press release.

The order was secured through Bron Technologies, a Poland-based company that Ondas recently acquired alongside GATE Technologies. GATE develops ESADs and electronic fuzing technologies for precision weapons including loitering munitions, UAVs, missiles and rockets, while Bron provides European manufacturing, certification and market access.

ESADs manage the safety, arming and initiation functions that keep a munition safe during storage, transport, handling and launch, arming only under required mission conditions. The devices must meet extended engineering, qualification and manufacturing-consistency requirements, which limits the number of qualified suppliers.

"This is the first ESAD order we have announced since closing the GATE and Bron acquisitions, and it is a substantial one," said Eric Brock, Chairman and CEO of Ondas. "It confirms the market position we acquired, where safe-and-arm and electronic fuzing are mission-critical layers of the precision strike stack, qualified suppliers are few, and European program demand is accelerating."

Oshri Lugassy, Co-CEO of Ondas Autonomous Systems, said the program moves into production with technology that is already qualified and a manufacturing base already in place, with a focus on delivery schedule, quality consistency and scaling production capacity.

Ondas describes its precision strike segment as spanning multiple layers of the precision-strike ecosystem, including autonomous platforms, navigation, communications, mission systems, propulsion, payload technologies and critical weapon components.