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Stanley Black & Decker DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. (SBD) is a Connecticut corporation, SEC registrant, and parent of majority-owned consolidated subsidiaries; its common stock trades as SWK on the NYSE.1, 2 Christopher J. Nelson has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since October 2025, while Donald Allan Jr. has served as Executive Chair since October 2025.1, 3 Patrick D. Hallinan was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer as of 24 February 2026; other identified executive officers included William D. Beck, Francesca Campbell, Agustin Lopez Diaz, and Deborah Wintner.1 A Form 3 identifies Jules Ricardo Muñoz as Senior Vice President, Global CETO, as of the August 2026 reporting event.4

Shareholders elected Donald Allan Jr., Susan K. Carter, Debra A. Crew, John L. Garrison Jr., Michael D. Hankin, Mary A. Laschinger, Robert J. Manning, Adrian V. Mitchell, Christopher J. Nelson, Shane M. O’Kelly, and Jane M. Palmieri as directors through the 2027 annual meeting.2 The 2026 proxy reports beneficial ownership as of 25 February 2026 of 12.0% by Vanguard, 7.4% by Capital Research Group Investors, 6.3% by T. Rowe Price Associates, 6.3% by BlackRock, and 5.5% by State Street; directors, nominees, and current executive officers collectively held less than 1%.3 These beneficial-ownership disclosures do not by themselves establish operational control.3

No public evidence identified, in targeted public searches and reviewed corporate disclosures, of a personal or family-office investment, board position, or affiliated vehicle of Nelson, Allan, the elected directors, or disclosed above-5% holders in an Israeli surveillance, cyber, AI, cloud, SIGINT, or security-sector company.2, 3 This is a limited public-search result and does not establish the absence of private or undisclosed interests.2, 3 no public evidence identified in the reviewed material that an in-scope principal held an identified Israeli-technology investment whose documented beneficiary or downstream result involved Israeli state, military, security, occupation, or anti-Palestinian digital capability, or that such an investment provided digital services, data access, surveillance, cyber, AI, or automated-control capability to an Israeli state-security beneficiary.2, 3

No public evidence identified of an SBD licensing, subscription, or integration relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, or another identified Israeli-origin cybersecurity or enterprise-software vendor.5, 1 no public evidence identified that an SBD systems integrator or outsourcing provider deployed Israeli-origin technology into SBD’s corporate enterprise environment.5

A Cisco-published case-study PDF titled “Leading Tools Manufacturer Transforms,” which references Stanley, remains publicly listed, but its content - including networking or security-technology detail - could not be independently verified because the document returned an access error.5 Cisco’s 2022 RTLS guidance concerns the former Stanley Healthcare/AeroScout product line rather than SBD’s corporate enterprise stack; it describes Cisco access points, controllers, Cisco Spaces Connector, AeroScout Location Engine, and MobileView Server components.6

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of SBD’s use of facial recognition, biometric identification, gait analysis, Israeli-origin retail analytics, predictive policing, workforce surveillance, sentiment analysis, or social-media-monitoring technologies.7, 8, 9 no public evidence identified of indirect delivery of such tools to SBD through a managed service or bundled third-party platform.7, 8, 9

SBD’s former Stanley Convergent Security Solutions business, including commercial electronic-security and healthcare-security products with access-control and monitoring offerings, was sold in its entirety to Securitas AB for $3.2 billion, and the transaction completed on 22 July 2022.10, 11, 12 That divestment predates both the 19 July 2024 ICJ advisory opinion and the November 2024 ICC arrest warrants; no continuation of the former SBD product line after those dates is identified in the reviewed material.10, 11, 12

The former AeroScout line processed real-time location and status telemetry from RFID-tagged people, equipment, and devices in healthcare and industrial deployments; this was RTLS/location technology rather than evidence of facial-recognition or biometric-identification use.13, 14, 15 At Tallahassee Memorial, MobileView was used to timestamp trauma-surgeon arrivals and movements and locate staff Wi-Fi devices.14, 16 Health First reported that MobileView captured and stored the identity, location, and status of tagged pumps.15

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

No public evidence identified that SBD operates, leases, or co-locates data-centre infrastructure in Israel; participates in Project Nimbus; or provides data-sovereignty, data-residency, or infrastructure-resilience services to Israeli state or military bodies.7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19

The available AeroScout record documents customer-controlled or on-premises processing in particular deployments. At Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, AeroScout tags sent identifiers through the hospital Wi-Fi network and MobileView resided on the hospital’s back-end system.14 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ MobileView record applies to VA-operated and VA-controlled installations, including VA-controlled virtual machines; it identifies Microsoft SQL Server as the application data store and warns that MobileView can store PII, PHI, or VA-sensitive data.20 Cisco’s guidance describes telemetry travelling through customer Cisco infrastructure to an AeroScout Engine Server, with local Engine Manager, Engine Server, and MobileView Server components.6 Gartner’s market guide describes the AeroScout location engine as an on-premises component performing Wi-Fi location calculations and identifies MobileView Analytics as a data-warehouse, dashboard, and reporting product for collected data.21

These sources establish documented customer-site deployment models rather than a universal model for all AeroScout customers.20, 14, 6, 21 no public evidence identified specifying the physical location of all customer databases, backups, MobileView Analytics hosting, cross-border transfers, retention periods, or customer-data storage in Israel during SBD’s 2012–2022 AeroScout ownership.20, 14, 6, 21

Google Play lists Robomow 3.0 and Robomow App 2.0 under Stanley Black & Decker Inc.; both were updated in April 2025 and provide remote mower control, status, scheduling, and recent-operation-history functions.17, 18 Developer-supplied declarations state that the apps may collect personal information, and the older app additionally may collect app/performance information and device or other identifiers; the declarations state encryption in transit, deletion-request capability, and no third-party data sharing.17, 18 These declarations are not independently audited data-flow records and do not identify data retention, infrastructure providers, server locations, subprocessors, or remote-administration access.17, 18

Robomow’s EU legal notice identifies Stanley Black & Decker Outdoor GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany, as the responsible website operator and Robomow business division.19 no public evidence identified in the reviewed current Robomow sources locating app data, mower-operation history, accounts, identifiers, or backups in Israel; identifying Israeli personnel with remote support or administrative access; or connecting the data pipeline to Israeli-controlled infrastructure or legal access.17, 18, 19

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of contracts or service agreements between SBD and the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israeli intelligence agencies, or other Israeli security bodies.7, 8, 9, 17, 18, 19 no public evidence identified of SBD technology being deployed for Israeli military, intelligence, law-enforcement surveillance, settlement-digital-service, or occupied-territory applications.7, 8, 9 no public evidence identified of SBD development, sale, or maintenance of offensive cyber capabilities or digital weapons systems.7, 8, 9

AeroScout was an Israeli RTLS company headquartered in Rehovot and founded in 1999.22, 13, 23 Although certain commercial databases describe the transaction as closing in December 2012, contemporaneous RFID Journal reporting states that Stanley Healthcare Solutions, an SBD division, completed its acquisition of AeroScout on 4 June 2012; SBD’s 2012 annual report confirms the acquisition and places RTLS within its smart-tools and storage strategy.13, 24, 25 Reported transaction values were approximately $200–250 million.22, 23, 26, 24 AeroScout was divested with SBD’s Security and Healthcare business through the 2022 Securitas transaction.10, 11, 12

During SBD ownership, customer-location data and telemetry were documented as being processed locally in particular customer settings: Tallahassee Memorial used hospital-network routing and a hospital back-end MobileView installation, while Health First reported MobileView storage of pump identifiers, locations, and status.14, 15 The later VA product record and Gartner guide support on-premises SQL-backed and location-engine deployment models, respectively.20, 21 no public evidence identified locating all AeroScout customer databases, backups, identifiers, telemetry processing, or analytics storage across the full 2012–2022 portfolio.20, 14, 6, 15, 21

The identified records demonstrate customer-controlled or on-premises installations in particular deployments but do not establish that every AeroScout deployment was wholly on premises.20, 14, 6, 21 no public evidence identified of Israel-based AeroScout or Stanley Healthcare personnel or systems receiving remote administrative, diagnostic, support, or analytics access to customer location data during SBD ownership.20, 14, 6, 21 no public evidence identified linking AeroScout telemetry or customer databases to Israeli-state access, Israeli-controlled infrastructure, Israeli jurisdictional access, or occupied-territory deployment during SBD’s ownership period.7, 8, 9

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

No public evidence identified of SBD supplying AI/ML, computer vision, autonomous decision support, training data, automated target-generation, threat-detection, or tracking systems to Israeli state, military, or security bodies.7, 8, 9 no public evidence identified that SBD models were trained on, or received access to, civilian-population data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived datasets originating from Israel or the occupied territories.7, 8, 9

Robomow, an autonomous robotic-lawnmower brand brought into SBD’s portfolio through SBD’s 2021 acquisition of MTD Products, is consumer and gardening technology; no security or targeting application is reported in the reviewed sources.27, 28 Current app listings confirm app-mediated mower control, scheduling, status, and operation-history functionality, but do not establish provision to an Israeli state, military, intelligence, settlement, or occupied-territory recipient.17, 18, 19

F. Robotics Acquisitions Ltd. remains an active consolidated Israeli subsidiary as of 3 January 2026, but the reviewed materials do not confirm its current product operations, personnel, hosting, app-data processing, or customer-data access.29 no public evidence identified tying F. Robotics Acquisitions Ltd. to the current Robomow apps or establishing that Israeli personnel can access Robomow customer or device data.29, 17, 18, 19

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

SBD’s current consolidated group includes F. Robotics Acquisitions Ltd., K.And.M. Holdco Products Ltd., and The Stanley Works Israel Ltd. as active Israeli subsidiaries as of 3 January 2026; all listed subsidiaries are included in SBD’s consolidated financial statements.29 The same three Israeli subsidiaries appeared in SBD’s active-subsidiaries exhibit as of 28 December 2024.30 Stanley Israel Investments B.V. is listed as an active Netherlands-incorporated consolidated subsidiary, although the filing does not disclose its ownership chain, assets, operations, or relationship to the Israeli subsidiaries.29 AeroScout Ltd. is absent from the January 2026 active-subsidiaries list, consistently with the documented 2022 divestment, although the exhibit alone does not establish its removal date or terms.10, 11, 12, 29

SBD’s Israel operation states that it develops, produces, and exports portable-storage solutions through an R&D centre and plastic-injection/assembly sites in Rosh Ha’Ayin, Carmiel, and Migdal Ha’Emek.31 The operation traces to ZAG’s 1993 founding, NASDAQ listing in 1996, and Stanley Works’ 1998 acquisition.31 Its stated product-marketing managers, designers, and engineers support portable-storage solutions for DEWALT, BLACK+DECKER, CRAFTSMAN, IRWIN, and STANLEY globally.31 This corporate self-description does not identify the legal entity operating each facility, staffing levels, data-hosting or remote-access arrangements, or a connection to AeroScout’s former infrastructure.31, 29

SBD’s FY2025 Form 10-K states that the company sources materials from Israel and identifies regional tensions or conflicts as a potential supply-chain-disruption risk.1 The filing also states that its employee stock-purchase plan is available to eligible employees in Israel, Canada, and the United States.1 These disclosures establish an Israel-related supply-chain nexus and Israel-based eligible employees during the reporting period, but do not identify suppliers, contracts, workplaces, Israeli-state customers, settlement-related activities, or facilities in internationally recognized occupied territory.1

SBD’s Israeli-origin acquisitions or investments include AeroScout, Robomow/F. Robotics Acquisitions Ltd., and Humavox.13, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35 MTD acquired Robomow in July 2017 before SBD acquired MTD in 2021, placing Robomow within SBD’s Outdoor/MTD lineage.27, 28 Stanley Ventures led an approximately $10 million Humavox funding round announced in June 2018, with reported plans to integrate Humavox near-field wireless RF-charging technology into Black+Decker products.32, 33, 34, 35

Stanley Ventures’ currently available portfolio page continues to display Humavox and describes its ETERNA RF wireless-charging platform.36 The page does not state an investment date, ownership percentage, exit date, continuing commercial integration, customer deployments, data-processing functions, or an Israeli-state or security beneficiary; its structure does not establish that SBD currently holds the investment.36 no public evidence identified confirming post-2018 continuation of the Humavox commercial integration or that Humavox technology was provided by SBD or Humavox to Israeli state, military, intelligence, settlement, or occupied-territory recipients.32, 33, 34, 35, 36

No public evidence identified of an SBD co-development or licensing arrangement with Technion, Hebrew University, or the Weizmann Institute.7, 8, 9

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Document-scoped review found no references to Stanley Black & Decker, Stanley Works, Black+Decker, or named affiliates in the specified OHCHR settlement-database updates, UN materials, and listed Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Al-Haq, PAX, BDS, DBIO, KLP, and Who Profits reports.7, 8, 9 This finding concerns the reviewed documents only and does not establish database-wide absence.7, 8, 9

No public evidence identified of an NGO or boycott campaign specifically concerning SBD’s technology provision to Israel, or of a regulatory inquiry, export-control action, sanctions investigation, court matter, or legal action concerning such provision.7, 8, 9 SBD’s FY2024 Form 10-K listed Israel among regions in which it identified geopolitical and operational supply-chain risk, alongside South Korea, China, and Taiwan; this was a general supply-chain disclosure rather than evidence of a technology relationship.37

The existing Keter/Black+Decker brand-license lead concerns physical consumer goods rather than a verified digital-technology relationship.7, 38, 39, 40 The reviewed secondary sources describing the license were not independently corroborated with a primary licensor or licensee document, so the relationship is not treated as established fact.38, 39 Who Profits documented Keter operations at Barkan industrial zone as of March 2014 and later reported that a November 2016 field visit found no continued activity there.7, 40 This adjacent matter does not establish an SBD digital-technology relationship, Israeli-state contract, or occupied-territory technology deployment.7, 40

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000009355626000009/swk-20260103.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  2. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312526182041/d930480d8k.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000114036126008170/ny20055502x771_def14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000162828026057474/xslF345X06/wk-form3_1787004070.xml ↩

  5. https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/solutions/industries/docs/manufacturing/c36-732293-00-stanley-cs.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/enterprise-networks/dna-spaces/guide-c07-744957.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  7. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/4060?keter-plastic-keter-group= ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16

  8. https://www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  9. https://www.opensanctions.org/datasets/ps_ohchr_settlement/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  10. https://ir.stanleyblackanddecker.com/news-events/press-releases/news-details/2022/Stanley-Black - Decker-Completes-Sale-of-Security-Business-to-Securitas-AB-for-3.2-Billion/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/securitas-completes-the-acquisition-of-stanley-security-and-healthcare - accelerates-its-ambition-to-become-an-outstanding-global-security-solutions-partner-301591496.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312522199624/d378851dex991.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://www.rfidjournal.com/news/stanley-healthcare-solutions-acquires-wi-fi-based-rtls-company-aeroscout/83939/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. https://www.rfidjournal.com/news/rtls-to-increase-patient-visibility-within-tallahassee-memorials-surgical-suite/83242/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  15. https://www.rfidjournal.com/news/hospital-rtls-tracks-pumps-status-and-movement/82635/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  16. https://www.psqh.com/news/hospital-now-uses-stanley-healthcares-wi-fi-rtls-to-track-trauma-surgeons/ ↩

  17. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_US&id=com.robomow3.robomow ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  18. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en_SG&id=com.robomow.robomow ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  19. https://www.robomow.com/legal-notice ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  20. https://oit.va.gov/Services/TRM/ToolPage.aspx?tid=8794 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  21. https://blog.innerspace.io/hubfs/%20Content%20Downloads/Market%20Guide%20for%20Indoor%20Location%20Services.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  22. https://nocamels.com/2012/05/stanley-black-decker-in-talks-to-buy-aeroscout/ ↩ ↩2

  23. https://israel21c.org/israels-aeroscout-sold-for-240m/ ↩ ↩2

  24. https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/company_page/aeroscout ↩ ↩2

  25. https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReportArchive/s/NYSE_SWK_2012.pdf ↩

  26. https://contracts.justia.com/companies/stanley-black-decker-1225/contract/213164/ ↩

  27. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mtd-completes-transaction-with-robomow-making-one-company-with-more-robotics-technology-and-greater-distribution-worldwide-300489989.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  28. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/subsidiary-of-mtd-to-merge-with-makers-of-robomow-creating-more-opportunity-for-robotic-lawn-mowing-300460857.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  29. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000009355626000009/ex21-subsidiariesofstanley.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  30. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000009355625000007/ex21-subsidiariesofstanley.htm ↩

  31. https://il.linkedin.com/company/stanley-black-decker-israel ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  32. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2018-06-14/ty-article/stanley-black-decker-invests-in-israeli-wireless-charging-startup/0000017f-e5eb-d62c-a1ff-fdfbca220000 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  33. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3740119,00.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  34. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-stanley-black-decker-invests-in-wireless-tech-co-humavox-1001241089 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  35. https://eepower.com/news/stanley-black-decker-partners-with-israeli-based-wireless-charging-startup/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  36. https://www.stanleyventures.com/portfolio?status=exited ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  37. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000009355625000007/swk-20241228.htm ↩

  38. https://www.mintpressnews.com/take-the-boycott-home-5-household-products-that-support-israeli-apartheid/209697/ ↩ ↩2

  39. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keter_Group ↩ ↩2

  40. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/133 ↩ ↩2 ↩3