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Uber MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-06-14
Military Score 0.05 /10 D Uber - BDS-1000 310
Military 0.05

Evidence-only forensic audit. Scoring happens downstream - see the main dossier for the composite assessment.

Military Audit: Uber Technologies, Inc.

Audit Phase: Military Subject Entity: Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER; Delaware; SEC CIK 0001543151) Registered Address: 1725 3rd Street, San Francisco, California 94158, United States Audit Date: June 2026 Scope: Forensic inventory of any military or defence nexus between Uber Technologies, Inc. and the Israeli military, security, or defence sector - direct defence contracting, dual-use supply, heavy machinery, supply-chain integration with Israeli defence primes, logistical sustainment, munitions/weapons platforms, export-licensing history, and documented civil-society scrutiny. Evidence only; no scoring or interpretation. Evidence Base: Israeli and Western defence-export and trade press, NGO corporate-accountability databases (Who Profits, AFSC Investigate), the UN OHCHR settlements database, Campaign Against Arms Trade material, BDS-movement campaign listings, corporate disclosures, and primary trade-press reporting on Uber’s Israeli-technology partnerships (Flytrex, Autobrains). All claims carry an inline reference marker; source URLs appear only in the End Notes.

Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

No public evidence identified of any contract, tender award, framework agreement, or memorandum of understanding between Uber Technologies, Inc. and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Border Police, the Israel Police, or any other Israeli state security or intelligence body.

Uber is a civilian mobility and logistics technology company whose disclosed business lines are ride-hailing (Mobility), food and grocery delivery (Uber Eats / Delivery), and freight brokerage (Uber Freight).1 Its published corporate and investor materials describe no defence-contracting capability, security-sector revenue, or military procurement relationship in any jurisdiction.1

No public evidence identified of Uber Technologies appearing in the listings of Israel’s defence-export and defence-cooperation directorate (SIBAT), in any Israeli Ministry of Defense procurement registry, or as an exhibitor or participant at defence exhibitions (ISDEF, Eurosatory, DSEI). Open-source coverage of Uber’s Israeli-technology dealings concerns commercial drone-delivery and autonomous-driving partnerships, not state defence procurement.23

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

No public evidence identified of Uber Technologies manufacturing, marketing, or supplying any ruggedised, tactical, mil-spec, or defence-grade product line to any end-user, including Israeli military or security end-users. Uber does not manufacture physical hardware, vehicles, drones, or munitions; its products are software platforms and brokerage services.1

Directionality note - investment in Israeli drone-delivery firm Flytrex. In September 2025 Uber announced a strategic partnership and equity investment, reported as “tens of millions of dollars,” in the Tel Aviv-based autonomous drone-delivery company Flytrex, to integrate drone delivery into Uber Eats pilot markets in the United States from the end of 2025.245 Flytrex was founded in 2013 by Yariv Bash and Amit Regev; Bash served in the IDF (described in trade press as a fighter in a special-forces unit of the artillery corps) and subsequently founded “Mahanet,” an intra-military innovation “creativity camp” drawing participants from Israel’s military and security branches, while in the Prime Minister’s Office.67 Flytrex’s commercial drone is a small (approximately 3 kg / 6.6 lb payload) civilian last-mile delivery platform; no reviewed source attributes a weaponised, tactical, or IDF-operated variant to Flytrex’s product line, and the drones used by the IDF in Gaza operations identified in reviewed reporting are manufactured by other firms (e.g., Smart Shooter, Elbit Systems, DJI).89 In this relationship Uber is the investor/customer and Flytrex the vendor; the technology transacted is civilian food-delivery drone service. The military backgrounds of Flytrex’s founders are biographical facts about individuals; the Uber-attributable act recorded is the investment in, and commercial use of, a civilian drone-delivery service.26

No public evidence identified of any export licence application, end-user certificate, or government export-control review relating to Uber products or services supplied to Israeli defence or security end-users. Uber’s platform services do not fall within the physical export-control regimes (ITAR/USML, EAR Commerce Control List) that would typically generate a public licensing record.1

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified. Uber Technologies is not a manufacturer or supplier of heavy machinery, construction equipment, excavation vehicles, or industrial infrastructure materials. No NGO field investigation, UN documentation, satellite-imagery analysis, or photographic record reviewed places Uber equipment in settlement construction, separation-barrier works, checkpoint construction, or military-installation development in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or Gaza.

Uber is not named in the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities relating to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.10 No Uber contract - direct or indirect - for the construction, maintenance, servicing, or expansion of IDF bases, detention facilities, military training installations, or settlement infrastructure was identified in any reviewed source.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Uber Technologies supplying components, sub-systems, raw materials, specialist manufacturing services, or any other input to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel Military Industries (IMI, now integrated into Elbit), or any other Israeli defence prime contractor. As a platform intermediary, Uber does not operate a traditional manufacturing supply chain that would create component-supply exposure to defence primes, and no such relationship was identified in defence-industry disclosures reviewed.1

No joint development programme, co-production agreement, technology-transfer arrangement, or licensed-manufacturing agreement between Uber Technologies and any Israeli defence firm was identified.

Directionality note - Israeli autonomous-driving technology suppliers. Uber has entered autonomous-driving partnerships with Israeli technology firms in which Uber is the platform integrator/customer, not a defence supplier. In June 2026 Uber announced a robotaxi programme (first city: Munich) integrating Uber’s ride-hailing platform with the agentic-AI autonomous-driving system of Tel Aviv-based Autobrains and NVIDIA’s DRIVE Hyperion computing architecture.311 Autobrains was spun off in 2019 from Cortica Group; Autobrains’ founder and CEO, Igal Raichelgauz, began his career in an elite IDF intelligence unit and co-founded Cortica, whose workforce is described as including veterans of IDF intelligence units.111213 These are corporate and biographical facts about the Israeli supplier and its personnel; the only act attributable to Uber is the commercial integration of a civilian autonomous-driving system into its ride-hailing platform. No defence prime contracting, military end-use, or IDF integration is attributed to the Uber-Autobrains arrangement in any reviewed source.311

Tier-2/3 supply-chain caveat. Uber’s extended technology-supplier and brokerage-carrier base has not been comprehensively mapped at sub-tier level for indirect links to Israeli defence primes. No such link was identified; sub-tier supply-chain opacity is an inherent evidence gap that cannot be closed from public disclosures alone.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

No public evidence identified of any Uber contract to provide catering, transport, fuel supply, waste management, facilities management, telecommunications, or any other logistical or sustainment service to IDF bases, military training facilities, detention centres, or security installations in any area, including the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, or the Negev.

Uber for Business is a corporate travel and ground-transport platform used by private-sector enterprise clients; no publicly documented Israeli military or security-sector institutional client relationship was identified in any reviewed source.1 Uber’s ride-hailing service operated in the Tel Aviv area before withdrawing in 2016 amid regulatory disputes, and Uber Eats subsequently operated in the Israeli market; neither operation was documented in any reviewed source as providing services to military or security installations.114

Uber Freight. Uber Freight is a road-freight brokerage platform operating primarily in North American and European markets. No public evidence identified of Uber Freight contracts servicing Israeli defence logistics, military cargo, weapons shipments, or IDF supply chains; reviewed U.S. defence freight-transportation contracting records identify other established carriers, not Uber Freight.115 Uber Freight operates as a broker using third-party carriers, and individual carrier end-use is not disclosed - an inherent evidence gap.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified. Uber Technologies has no documented role - as prime contractor, licensed manufacturer, sub-system integrator, or component supplier - in the production of small arms, artillery, armoured vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, naval vessels, or any other lethal platform for any end-user, including Israeli defence and security end-users.

No public evidence identified of Uber supplying ammunition, explosive ordnance, propellants, warhead components, or munitions-precursor materials to any end-user in any jurisdiction.

No public evidence identified of any Uber role in the manufacture, integration, maintenance, or component supply of Israeli strategic defence platforms - including the Iron Dome air-defence system, David’s Sling, the Arrow missile-defence system, F-35I “Adir” aircraft, Merkava main battle tanks, Sa’ar-class corvettes, or any ballistic-missile system. No Uber-attributable guidance electronics, fire-control systems, radar components, propulsion units, or warhead casings appear in arms-transfer data or defence-industry documentation reviewed.1

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of any government decision in any jurisdiction - including the United States, the United Kingdom, European Union member states, or Israel - to grant, deny, suspend, or revoke an export licence for Uber products or services to Israeli military or security end-users. Uber does not appear as a named applicant or licence-holder in publicly reported UK strategic-export-control or arms-licensing data concerning defence or dual-use exports to Israel compiled by Campaign Against Arms Trade.16

No investigation, enforcement citation, or regulatory action against Uber relating to arms-embargo compliance, export-control obligations, or sanctions compliance in the context of defence trade with Israel or any other jurisdiction was identified in any reviewed enforcement record.16

No court proceedings, judicial review, or legal challenge - brought against Uber or against a government body concerning an Uber export application - relating to a defence or military supply relationship with Israel was identified in available legal reporting or civil-society documentation.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

NGO & Academic Investigations

No active corporate profile categorising Uber Technologies as a defence, military, or security-sector company was identified in the principal corporate-accountability databases. The Who Profits Research Center company database does not list Uber Technologies (nor Flytrex) among its profiled entries in the material reviewed; the AFSC Investigate company list likewise does not include Uber Technologies or Flytrex; and Uber is not named in the UN OHCHR settlements database.101718 Where NGO and activist sources discuss Uber, the evidentiary focus is on its commercial investment in, and partnerships with, Israeli technology companies (Flytrex, Autobrains) and on consumer-facing controversies - not on weapons, ordnance, defence contracting, or security services.419

Boycott, Divestment & Consumer-Pressure Campaigns

Following the September 2025 announcement of Uber’s investment in Flytrex, pro-Palestinian activists and BDS-aligned groups launched consumer-boycott calls against Uber and Uber Eats.4519 The publicly articulated grounds rest on the “dual-use” argument that drone-delivery technology and Israeli military-tech expertise are intertwined, and that the investment channels capital into Israel’s military-technology sector; campaign materials reference the IDF/IOF backgrounds of Flytrex’s founders and the broader Israeli military-tech ecosystem.519 These campaign rationales concern investment and association; none of the boycott materials reviewed identifies Uber itself as an arms exporter, defence contractor, munitions supplier, or operator of weaponised systems.519 As of the audit date, neither Uber, Uber Eats, nor Flytrex appears on the BDS movement’s official consumer-boycott or pressure-target lists.20

A separate consumer controversy in 2023–2024 concerned Uber Eats labelling a Palestinian restaurant in Canada under an “Israeli” food category; this is a platform-categorisation matter with no military or defence dimension.21

Corporate Policy Response

No public evidence identified of any Uber corporate statement, policy change, contract termination, or end-use-monitoring commitment in response to civil-society pressure regarding a defence supply relationship with Israel. Uber’s published human-rights, ESG, and social-impact materials address driver welfare, labour rights, data privacy, and accessibility, and contain no Israel-specific provisions on military supply chains, defence end-use monitoring, or procurement for security purposes - consistent with the absence of any such relationship in the record.1

End Notes

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001543151&type=10-K&dateb=&owner=include&count=40 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  2. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryqv700ksxx ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/uber-partners-with-israeli-autobrains-and-nvidia-on-munich-robotaxi-program ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250923-uber-faces-boycott-over-partnership-with-israeli-drone-firm/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  5. https://blog.boycat.io/posts/boycott-uber-investment-israeli-drone-tech ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3912875,00.html ↩ ↩2

  7. https://bdscoalition.ca/2025/10/02/its-time-to-boycott-uber-eats/ ↩

  8. https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-apparent-world-first-idf-deployed-drone-swarms-in-gaza-fighting/ ↩

  9. https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6357/Gaza:-Israeli-army-expands-its-use-of-quadcopters-to-kill-more-Palestinian-civilians ↩

  10. https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session43/list-of-issues ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjei429xze ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://app.qwoted.com/sources/igal-raichelgauz-ai-automotive-innovation-autobrains-technologies-founder-ceo ↩

  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortica ↩

  14. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/uber-eats-palestinian-israel-1.7062884 ↩

  15. https://dfts.crowley.com/home ↩

  16. https://caat.org.uk/data/countries/israel/ ↩ ↩2

  17. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/all ↩

  18. https://investigate.afsc.org/all-companies ↩

  19. https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/09/22/uber-invests-in-isreali-drone-company/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  20. https://bdsmovement.net/get-involved/what-to-boycott ↩

  21. https://www.newsweek.com/uber-eats-faces-backlash-over-palestinian-restaurant-1853408 ↩