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Uber MILITARY

MILITARY AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-07
Military Score 0.00 /10 D Uber - Complicity Index 254
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Direct Defence Contracting & Procurement

Uber Technologies, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated public company whose 2025 Form 10-K identifies Dara Khosrowshahi as CEO and director and Ronald Sugar as board chair 1. Uber’s Israel-facing legal portal provides country-localised legal materials, but it does not identify an Israeli defence, police, prison, or military customer 2.

Uber announced a separate partnership with the U.S. Army to pilot rideshare access at six U.S. locations, including Army vetting and credentials for authorised base pickups and drop-offs 3. This verified U.S. military-adjacent passenger-transport activity does not establish a relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or another Israeli security body 3.

No public evidence identified of an Uber contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, supplier listing, or defence-exhibition listing involving Israeli defence or security bodies in the reviewed Uber disclosures, SIBAT public-search materials, and focused reporting 1, 4. Uber’s 2025 Form 10-K contains no text match for “Israel,” “Israel Defense Forces,” or “military,” which is a filing-scoped absence rather than proof that no relationship exists 1.

Dual-Use Products & Tactical Variants

Uber announced a strategic partnership and investment in Flytrex in September 2025 for autonomous food and convenience delivery through Uber Eats pilot markets in the United States 5. Uber described the arrangement as its first drone-technology investment and identified commercial last-mile delivery, rather than a tactical, weapons, or Israeli-security application, as its purpose 5.

Uber and Associated Press reporting describe Flytrex as a Tel Aviv-based commercial drone-delivery operator with more than 200,000 U.S. deliveries and FAA-authorised beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations 5, 6. The reviewed sources do not identify a military-specified Flytrex variant, Israeli military end user, weapons integration, weaponisation, targeting function, or weapons effect 5, 6.

No public evidence identified of export licences, end-user certificates, export-control decisions, or military procurement connected to Uber’s Flytrex investment or commercial drone-delivery partnership 1, 4, 5.

Heavy Machinery, Construction & Infrastructure

No public evidence identified that Uber equipment, vehicles, or services have been documented in settlement construction, demolitions, barrier or checkpoint works, military installations, or related infrastructure in occupied territory in the reviewed OHCHR and civil-society report corpus 7, 8, 9, 10.

No public evidence identified of Uber construction, engineering, maintenance, or infrastructure contracts for checkpoints, detention facilities, military bases, the separation barrier, or settlements 1, 7, 8, 9.

Supply Chain Integration with Defence Primes

No public evidence identified of Uber supplying components, subsystems, manufacturing services, technology, or logistics services to Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime in the reviewed corporate disclosures, SIBAT materials, and reporting 1, 4, 5.

The documented Flytrex relationship is an Uber investment and commercial integration for U.S. delivery pilots, and the available primary reporting does not establish co-production, technology transfer, licensed manufacturing, or a supply relationship with an Israeli defence manufacturer 5, 6.

Ronald Sugar has served on Uber’s board since 2018 and is identified in Uber’s 2026 proxy as the former chairman and CEO of Northrop Grumman 11. This is a historic defence-industry leadership connection of Uber’s board chair, not evidence of an Uber–Northrop contract or Israeli defence activity 11, 12.

Logistical Sustainment & Base Services

Uber’s announced U.S. Army pilot concerns passenger rideshare access for military-community travel and driver base-entry credentials 3. The arrangement is not evidence of Israeli military sustainment, military cargo handling, or base services 3.

No public evidence identified of Uber or Uber Freight providing transport, freight forwarding, catering, facilities support, fuel, waste, telecommunications, shipping, port handling, or comparable sustainment services to Israeli military or security installations 1, 4.

No public evidence identified of such services within the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights, or Negev 7, 8, 9.

Munitions, Weapons Systems & Strategic Platforms

No public evidence identified that Uber manufactures, integrates, maintains, or supplies lethal platforms, munitions, propellants, weapons components, missile-defence components, targeting systems, fire-control systems, guidance electronics, radar, propulsion, or warhead-related components for Israeli end users 1, 7.

The only concrete aerial-system relationship identified in the reviewed materials is Flytrex commercial delivery drones for U.S. Uber Eats pilots 5, 6. The available sources do not establish that Flytrex’s product has been weaponised, sold to Israeli security forces, or designed to generate targeting decisions or weapons effects 5, 6.

Export Licensing, Regulatory & Legal History

No public evidence identified of an export-licence grant, denial, suspension, revocation, enforcement action, sanctions proceeding, judicial review, or litigation concerning an Uber defence-supply relationship with Israel 1, 4.

Uber’s 2025 Form 10-K describes litigation and regulatory matters involving subjects including worker classification, tax, competition, and payments, but it does not identify an Israel-related defence-trade, export-control, or sanctions matter 1. This conclusion is limited to the filing’s disclosures and the reviewed public materials 1, 4.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Documented Investigations

The supplied document-scoped review found no Uber mention in the UN Special Rapporteur’s 2025 report, the 2023 and 2025 OHCHR settlement-business databases, and the identified civil-society report corpus 7, 8, 9. These are report-scoped absences and do not establish database-wide absence or rule out material outside the reviewed documents 7, 8, 9.

DBIO’s November 2024 report identifies 58 companies in its researched settlement-involvement set, and Uber is not among its enumerated companies 10. This is likewise a report-scoped absence rather than evidence that no organisation has ever made a relevant allegation or finding 10.

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment campaign, exclusion decision, or corporate response specifically tied to Uber’s alleged Israeli defence-sector activity 10. Public social-media assertions concerning Flytrex were not treated as verified evidence because the reviewed materials did not establish an underlying IDF or Israeli defence contract 4, 5, 6.

Uber’s April 2019 subsidiary exhibit listed Uber Technologies Systems Israel Ltd as an Israel-incorporated subsidiary, while a commercial company-record service identifies the entity as active and records Uber International Holding B.V. as shareholder 13, 14. The 2019 disclosure does not independently confirm current ownership or operational scope, and the commercial record is corroborative rather than an official registrar extract 13, 14.

Footnotes

  1. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000154315126000015/uber-20251231.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  2. https://www.uber.com/il/en/legal/ ↩

  3. https://www.uber.com/us/en/newsroom/uber-partners-with-army/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. https://www.sibat.mod.gov.il/AdvancedSearch/Pages/default.aspx ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  5. https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-details/2025/Uber-Partners-with-Flytrex-to-Launch-Drone-Delivery/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  6. https://apnews.com/article/0b50d5176d076ce60f050ac561f7c02b ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  7. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  8. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/53/71 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  9. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/60/19 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  10. https://dontbuyintooccupation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024_DBIO-IV-report.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000130817926000125/uber014597-def14a.htm ↩ ↩2

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000130817925000210/uber013353-def14a.htm ↩

  13. https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001543151/8eace3a3-49f4-46cb-b36a-6fc5ba16c77a.pdf ↩ ↩2

  14. https://www.checkid.co.il/company/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%A8-%D7%9E%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%98%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%91%D7%A2~%D7%9E-515048254 ↩ ↩2