SkyGuardDefense/otis-core

otis-core represents a specialized niche in defense robotics that aims to solve the 'latency-security tradeoff' by stripping away standard layers like ROS 2 and FFmpeg in favor of a bare-metal implementation. The project's claim of using 'Kinetic Contour Mapping' to neutralize AI spoofing suggests a physics-first approach to object tracking, which is theoretically more robust than purely vision-based deep learning models that are susceptible to adversarial attacks. However, with 0 stars and being only one day old, the project currently lacks any form of validation, community, or proof-of-work. Its defensibility is purely theoretical at this stage; while the domain (C-UAS) is high-value and has high barriers to entry due to regulation and hardware requirements, this specific code repository has no moat yet. Frontier labs like OpenAI or Google are unlikely to enter this space due to the kinetic/military nature of the application, leaving the primary competition to defense primes (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon) or defense-tech unicorns like Anduril. The 'displacement_horizon' is set to 1-2 years because while the approach is sound, the rapidly evolving C-UAS market will likely see consolidation or more integrated software-defined warfare platforms that could absorb such algorithmic niches.