The 30-Year-Old Procurement Law Behind the Pentagon’s Marketplace Push
A Palantir protest over the Defense Intelligence Agency’s ASTRA solicitation highlights the continuing role of a 1994 federal procurement law ...
Small Drones, Big Problems: Inside JIATF 401’s New First-Principles Handbook for Countering Drones
A new 90-page handbook from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 gives warfighters, federal agencies, and local law enforcement a shared framework ...
Beyond the Checkbox: What NDAA Compliance Actually Proves
Phoenix LiDAR Systems President Rob Dannenberg’s experience with Blue UAS verification shows why a statutory claim, a vetted product and ...
FCC Widens Drone Crackdown: Exemptions Extended, New Import Ban Proposed
The FCC extended key Covered List exemptions to 2028, revoked a drone maker's authorizations for the first time over false ...
The Pentagon’s New Drone Czar: How DRPM-UxS Pushes for Robotics Combatant Command
A memo signed June 29 gives one office authority over nearly all U.S. military drone and counter-drone programs—arriving three weeks ...
Uber and Zipline Partner to Scale Drone Delivery Across the U.S.
Uber Eats will begin offering drone delivery through a new partnership with Zipline, with the companies targeting one million drone ...
Powerus Opens UAE Facility to Build Guardian Interceptors Locally
Florida-based Powerus has stood up a UAE factory building its low-cost Guardian interceptor as Gulf states face sustained Iranian drone ...
Component Shortages Slow FPV Deliveries From Drone Dominance Gauntlet 1 Winners
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program wanted the eleven companies that made the leaderboard of its Gauntlet 1 competition concluded in ...
Avidrone’s Katana Wins DARPA Lift Challenge, Company Plans Commercialized Version
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, ...
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. Image: Air ...
