The single-rotor helicopter drone posted the competition’s best payload-to-weight ratio at 3.84 to 1, just short of DARPA’s 4-to-1 goal,…
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AEVEX Awarded $41 Million Contract to Deliver One-Way Attack Systems
AEVEX Corp. announced that it has received a $41 million award to support U.S. government customers with delivery of one-way…
Army Seeks Commercial Controllers for Drones and Ground Robots Under New C2 Architecture
A Commercial Solutions Opening posted Aug. 13 asks vendors to integrate controllers and human-machine interfaces for Group 1-3 UAS, launched…
Marine Corps Orders Ten More Combat-Proven Anti-Drone Buggies for $19 Million
Vertex Modernization and Sustainment’s Tempest vehicle, armed with radar-guided Hellfire missiles, has already destroyed 21 Shahed drones in Ukraine, giving…
Safe Pro Group Tops $5 Million in 2026 AI-Powered Drone Threat-Detection Orders
Multi-branch adoption by the Army, Air Force and defense primes has pushed the company’s AI edge-compute and imagery-processing contracts to…
Powerus Subsidiary Wins Up to $90 Million Air Force IDIQ for Group 1 Aerial Denial
Tandem Defense’s competitively awarded contract covers Group 1 counter-drone systems, support equipment and training, and runs through mid-2028, arriving as…
Trump Imposes Tariffs Up to 100% on Foreign-Made Drones, Targeting Chinese Supply Chains
New Section 232 tariffs of up to 100% target Chinese-made drones and components, with reduced rates for allies. President Trump…
Northrop Grumman Unveils Raid Hunter, a 50mm Gun-Based Air Defense System for Layered Counter-UAS Protection
Northrop Grumman on Aug. 11 formally introduced Raid Hunter, the production name for its 50mm Gun-Based Air Defense (GBAD) system,…
Army Selects Five Vendors Following Platoon-Level SRR Drone Fly-Off
Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics will move into manufacturing-readiness assessments as the Army looks to refresh short-range…
Archer Aviation to Acquire Boeing’s Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu in Autonomy and Defense Deal
Boeing and Archer Aviation announced August 10 that they have signed definitive agreements for Archer to acquire three Boeing subsidiaries:…
SwissDrones and Xplorate Bring Long-Range Uncrewed Helicopter Inspection to the U.S.
SwissDrones Operating AG and its subsidiary Xplorate Pacific Pty Ltd are expanding their combined aircraft-to-intelligence platform into the United States,…
DHS Awards $1.5 Billion Counter-UAS Contract to 12 Companies
The five-year IDIQ splits hardware and services into two tracks, giving Secret Service, CBP, the Coast Guard and other components…
Robinson Unmanned Advances to Gauntlet II Under Drone Dominance Program
Robinson Unmanned, competing under the Ascent AeroSystems brand, has been selected to participate in Gauntlet II of the Pentagon’s Drone…
Pentagon’s Counter-Drone Task Force Expands Its Online Marketplace
The Pentagon is widening access to its counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) marketplace, an online catalogue meant to let the military,…
Hidden Level Wins $100 Million OTA to Scale Passive Sensing for Counter-Drone Mission
The Department of Defense has awarded Hidden Level a $100 million Other Transaction Authority contract to field the company’s passive…
AV, Applied Intuition Team to Bring Collaborative Autonomy to Mayhem 10
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) and Applied Intuition have announced a strategic teaming agreement to integrate Applied Intuition’s Acuity ISR/Strike autonomy software…
Skyeton to Build First U.S. Manufacturing Plant in N.C., Joining Ukrainian Drone Makers Onshoring Production
Skyeton, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Ukrainian long-endurance UAS manufacturer Skyeton Holdings, will open its first flagship U.S. manufacturing facility…
