The Ukrainian combat digital ecosystem DELTA has officially been adopted at all levels of the country’s Security and Defense Forces. The order, signed on August 6 by Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal, designates DELTA as the single platform for data exchange and coordination of military operations.

This means that DELTA will now serve as the central source of real-time battlefield information, operational planning, and communication — accessible from a laptop, tablet, or phone, and used by commanders at every level.

«DELTA is a combat digital ecosystem that creates a technological advantage for the Ukrainian army: it allows you to see the battlefield in real time, plan operations, and exchange information within a unit, brigade, group, and, if necessary, with allies,» said Shmyhal.

• The minister emphasized that DELTA has passed both information security evaluations and real-world combat tests — from the defense of Kyiv in 2022, to the destruction of key enemy assets in the Black Sea Fleet, the liberation of Zmiinyi Island, and the de-occupation of Kherson.
• According to Shmyhal, the system currently supports the targeting and destruction of over 2,000 enemy objects daily, adding up to more than half a million verified destroyed and damaged targets in a year, using only strike drones.
• The ecosystem is under constant development. One major upgrade: the recent integration of an AI platform that enables automatic detection of enemy equipment in real time. Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov noted that the AI can identify 70% of enemy targets in video streams within just 2 seconds.
• Today, DELTA offers:
  • Over 150,000 concurrent views of UAV video streams at command centers and on the front lines
  • The most comprehensive data on enemy losses
  • Tools for data-driven decision-making on the battlefield
  • And the ability to efficiently plan UAV missions in real time

About DELTA

DELTA is developed by the Center for Innovation and Development of Defense Technologies (CIDDT). As previously reported by DOU, its roots go back to the Revolution of Dignity, when volunteers from the Aerorozvidka community began using drones for intelligence gathering. Founding members included Yaroslav Honchar, Volodymyr Kochetkov-Sukach, Nathan Khazin, and Dmytro Lisenbart.

In 2016, some members of Aerorozvidka joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces, forming military unit A2724, where the initial version of DELTA was developed.

Over time, this unit evolved — following a disbandment — into Center for Innovation and Development of Defense Technologies (CIDDT), which was officially launched by the Ministry of Defense in 2021. Today, CIDDT functions similarly to a medium-sized IT product company, with DELTA as its flagship project.

Beyond DELTA, CIDDT is also developing a suite of other military technologies, including:

• Avengers, an AI platform for autonomous detection of enemy equipment.
• UA Drone ID, a secure protocol for data exchange between drones and combat systems.

In total, the DELTA ecosystem comprises 11 integrated modules, reinforcing Ukraine’s digital advantage on the battlefield.