Airbus U.S. Space & Defense is offering the U.S. Marine Corps a fully autonomous variant of the UH-72B Lakota utility…
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Farsighted: SiLC’s Eyeonic Vista Perimeter Detector
Nefarious actors wield increasingly sophisticated UAS that move quickly, fly low and blend into complex backgrounds and infrastructure. SiLC Technologies…
GA-ASI, Air Force Complete F-35/MQ-20 Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming Demonstration Using LEO Data Link
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced May 27 that it completed a crewed-uncrewed teaming flight demonstration pairing an MQ-20 Avenger…
Mountain Horse Brings Draganfly Flex and AG3 SPADE to Drone Dominance Gauntlet 2
Mountain Horse Solutions is partnered with two companies battling in the second round of the Army’s Drone Dominance Gauntlet competition seeking lethal but low-cost…
The Arsenal of Autonomy: Michigan Makes Its Move
A manufacturing state looks toward autonomy. During World War II, the Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, developed an…
Somewear Labs: Capability on the Horizon
From Ukraine to the Middle East, choices between capabilities and cost have come to the fore. Somewear’s just-released Horizon multi-network…
DroneShield Awarded $24.9 Million in Australian Dollars in JIATF-401 Counter-Drone Contract
DroneShield has been awarded a contract valued at $24.9 million AUD supporting the mission of Joint Interagency Task Force 401…
Space Force Awards SpaceX $4.16 Billion for Space-Based Airborne Target Tracking Constellation
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion Other Transaction Authority contract today for the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target…
Motorola Solutions to Acquire D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 Billion
Motorola Solutions announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire D-Fend Solutions, an Israeli counter-drone technology company,…
North Dakota’s Vantis Cuts BVLOS Waiver Timeline from Years to Weeks as Statewide Network Expands
The Northern Plains UAS Test Site hosted Vantis Fly Day on May 28 at the Gorman Field UAS Test Range…
Shield AI Tapped to Bring Hivemind to LUCAS Drone Program
Shield AI announced at SOF Week that it had been selected by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense…
Pentagon Awards $500M to Perennial Autonomy for Counter-Drone Interceptors Proven in Ukraine
The biggest contract announcement to emerge from SOF Week 2026 came not from one of the traditional defense primes but…
Teledyne FLIR Upgrades FirstLook Throwbot with Thermal Sensors and Black Hornet Integration
Teledyne FLIR has unveiled FirstLook 125, a new iteration of the tiny ‘throwable’ tracked UGV used by infantry, EOD and…
Poland, Australia, and South Korea Join Pentagon’s JIATF-401 Counter-Drone Marketplace
Three additional nations have signed on to the Pentagon’s counter-drone procurement marketplace, the Army announced this week, expanding the initiative…
The Autonomy Stack: Establishing a ‘Software First’ Mindset
The need for more adaptable solutions and the U.S. Air Force’s new Autonomy Government Reference Architecture, or A-GRA, are driving…
The FCC’s New Role at the Center of the U.S. Drone Market
A supply chain security framework that began with a sweeping December 2025 prohibition on foreign-produced UAS is now generating its…
NYPD Stands Up Permanent Counter-Drone Unit Under Safer Skies Act
The New York City Police Department has stood up a permanent counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) unit with authority to electronically…
