Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Cherry and Croatian UAV producer Orqa have signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly develop and…
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Red Cat Partners with Ukraine’s State Defense Export Authority
Red Cat Holdings has formalized a strategic partnership with Spetstechnoexport, a state-owned enterprise under Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, through a…
NAVAIR Awards Near Earth Autonomy Contract for GPS-Denied Maritime Logistics
The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy a contract to develop an aircraft-agnostic autonomy solution for…
Army Rewrites Drone Doctrine Force-Wide as “Drone Dominance” Becomes Priority
The U.S. Army is overhauling its operational doctrine across all echelons to incorporate lessons from the accelerating battlefield use of…
General Cherry Announces U.S. Joint Venture with Wilcox Industries to Produce FPV and Interceptor Drones
Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Cherry has announced a strategic joint venture with Wilcox Industries Corp., a Newington, New Hampshire-based defense…
L3Harris Delivers Submarine-Launched AUV Capability to U.S. Navy Under DIU Contract
L3Harris Technologies has received an Other Transaction Authority contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to deliver its Torpedo Tube Launch…
Saronic Raises $1.75B, Expands Louisiana Shipbuilding Footprint as Autonomous Surface Vessel Production Scales
Saronic Technologies has closed a $1.75 billion Series D funding round at a $9.25 billion valuation, with the capital directed…
Commercial Drone Alliance Calls for Interagency Coordination on Domestic Supply Chain
The Commercial Drone Alliance released a white paper this week urging the Administration and Congress to pair the Federal Communications…
Announcing Defense Strategies Institute’s 14th Annual Unmanned & Autonomous Systems Summit
Unmanned & autonomous systems community to convene on April 8-9, 2026, in Washington, D.C. In FY2026, the Department of War…
AV Unveils LOCUST X3 Laser C-UAS System
Third-generation directed energy platform emphasizes modularity, AI-enabled targeting and low-cost counter-drone engagement. AeroVironment (AV) has introduced LOCUST X3, a third-generation…
Five Good Questions: Dan Magy, Firestorm Labs
Dan Magy is the CEO of Firestorm Labs, a defense technology company focused on rapidly configurable unmanned systems and forward-deployed…
GA-ASI and U.S. Air Force Demonstrate Passive IR-Based Autonomy for Collaborative Combat Aircraft
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Air Force recently conducted a flight demonstration focused on autonomous sensing…
AV Acquires Empirical Systems Aerospace to Expand UAS Engineering and Manufacturing Capacity
AeroVironment (AV) has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero), a California-based aerospace engineering firm specializing in unmanned aircraft systems and…
U.S. Army Enterprise Contract with Anduril Positions Lattice as Core Platform for C-UAS Operations
The U.S. Army has awarded Anduril Industries a new enterprise contract valued at up to $20 billion over 10 years, establishing the company’s…
XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 to Spotlight Security, Defense and Dual-Use Autonomous Systems
The upcoming XPONENTIAL Europe conference and trade fair will place security, defense and dual-use autonomous technologies at the center of…
U.S., U.K. Move to Align Counter-Drone Data Standards
A new U.S.-U.K. declaration aims to make counter-UAS systems more interoperable by standardizing how data is shared, fused and evaluated…
The Edge of Visibility: EO/IR System Design Realities for Modern C-UAS
As drone threats push detection ranges outward, C-UAS performance is increasingly decided at the limits of visibility—where targets are only…
