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 ...
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 ...
