News: Optoelectronics
7 September 2026
NUBURU expands directed-energy platform into law enforcement and public security across USA and NATO
NUBURU Inc of Centennial, CO, USA (a dual-use defense & security integrated platform company) is expanding its directed-energy optical portfolio into law enforcement and public security through its subsidiary Lyocon S.r.l. The initiative extends NUBURU’s One Optical Systems Hub beyond the battlefield and into everyday protective operations – public order, checkpoints and access control, tactical response and perimeter protection – with an initial go-to-market focus on the USA and NATO-member countries.
One Optical System Hub
At the center of the public security program is a Public-Security Dazzler designed to give trained operators a controlled, human-authorized optical response in the decisive gap where a verbal command has failed but kinetic force is not proportionate. Handheld, weapon-mounted and vehicle- and fixed-site configurations are in development to cover the full range of operational environments in which that gap occurs.
Both missions run on the same foundation: NUBURU’s One Optical Systems Hub, a single photonics and optical-engineering core supporting public security and counter-UAS (unmanned aircraft system) optical denial. Each mission retains its own effects, operating parameters, safety envelopes, rules of engagement and validation pathway, but they draw on shared beam-control engineering, shared targeting and range-finding architecture, shared manufacturing and shared supply chain: one engineering investment, two addressable markets – and a cost structure that improves as volume accrues across both.
The public-security architecture is built around operator accountability from the outset: human-in-the-loop authorization, laser range-finding, distance-based output control, safety interlocks and tamper-evident engagement records. Around every fielded system, NUBURU intends to deliver integration, calibration, software updates, operator training and lifecycle support – the service layer that turns hardware placements into durable customer relationships.
Counter-UAS: the same core against a faster-moving threat
NUBURU’s counter-UAS work applies that optical core to one of the most urgent unsolved problems in Western security: small uncrewed aircraft over airports, ports, energy and utility sites, correctional facilities, military installations, borders and mass-gathering venues. The operators responsible for those sites face the same proportionality problem as the officer on the street. Kinetic interception is rarely available above a runway, a crowd or a refinery, and jamming is constrained where spectrum is contested or legally restricted.
Optical denial addresses the aircraft’s ability to see rather than its ability to fly – no fragmentation, no falling debris, no spectrum footprint. It is a mission profile suited precisely to the populated and infrastructure-dense environments where drone incursions are most consequential and where existing counter-UAS answers are hardest to deploy. Because both missions are built on the same hub, engineering progress, qualification learning and manufacturing scale earned in one program carry directly into the other, and a single customer relationship can span perimeter security and airspace protection at the same site.
Large, fragmented and chronically underserved customer universe
The scale of the opportunity is a matter of US federal record, says NUBURU. The 2024 National Incident-Based Reporting System eligibility frame included 19,328 law-enforcement agencies, and the FBI’s 2025 employee collection reported about 752,000 full-time sworn officers in the USA alone. NATO comprises 32 member countries across Europe and North America. NUBURU is targeting federal, state and local police, border-security services, military police, special-response units and critical-infrastructure operators across that footprint – many of which are also the natural first customers for counter-UAS optical denial.
Market references cited include: the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024; FBI, Law Enforcement Employee Counts, 2025; and NATO Member Countries.
Pipeline already in motion
Through Lyocon, NUBURU is advancing an identified pipeline of prospective law-enforcement and protective-security opportunities in the USA and NATO-member countries, at varying stages of development and customer evaluation.
To accelerate industrialization and market access, NUBURU is in preliminary discussions and active outreach with established US and European firearms, electro-optics and defense-systems manufacturers regarding product integration and distribution. The aim is to pair NUBURU’s optical-systems engineering with partners who already hold the qualification credentials, production capacity and channel relationships that these agencies buy through.
“Law-enforcement and public-security operators need tools that create time and distance when a verbal command has failed but kinetic force is not proportionate. That gap is where officers get hurt and where outcomes go wrong,” says executive chairman & co-CEO Alessandro Zamboni. “The operator defending an airport or a power plant from a drone faces the identical problem one level up, and we are answering both with the same optical core. That is the logic of the One Optical Systems Hub – one engineering investment, two protective missions, each with its own authorization, safety controls and validation pathway,” he adds. “With the right industrial and distribution partners, we can move through qualification and into the market across the United States and NATO-member countries far faster than we could alone.”
Disciplined path to deployment
NUBURU’s development pathway is structured around engineering validation, independent laser-safety and human-factors testing, certification, legal and export-control review, jurisdiction-specific use-of-force requirements and customer qualification. Performance, safety envelopes and operational effectiveness remain subject to completion of the applicable testing and certification processes.
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