Department 13 commercially launched its counter-drone product, MESMERTM Version 1.0, a unique patented, low power, non-jamming, non-line of sight, non-kinetic drone mitigation solution, enabling an effective and safe method of protecting personnel and infrastructure from dangerous drones. With customer demonstrations and trials of MESMER currently underway, the company has secured global distributor agreements to support the launch. The MESMER platform uses sophisticated automated detection and mitigation strategies to stop, redirect, land or take control of drones across a range of national security, defense and commercial scenarios. MESMER's key differentiator is its ability to manipulate weaknesses in all digital radio protocols and take control of a drone's computer, allowing it to land drones safely by flying them into a defined exclusion zone. The patented technology is built on open source software architecture ensuring it can seamlessly integrate into existing security and surveillance systems, making it attractive to a range of government and commercial partners, including military bases, prisons, stadiums, airports and other critical infrastructure. A number of tier one customers have commenced commercial trials and scheduled demonstrations of MESMER, which follow a series of successful validation exercises conducted last year including Black Dart and the MITRE Challenge. Department 13's global distribution network enables MESMER to be marketed to an initial 37 countries. The sales channel comprises strategic partners Booz Allen Hamilton in the United States, EPE in Australasia, Phoenix Group in Latin America and ISM in the UK and Europe.