Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas as the site for Port Alpha, a next-generation shipyard the company says will help expand…
Military
U.S. Navy Corsairs Just Conducted Its First Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack Since World War II
Just a over a month after the U.S. Navy used a small unmanned surface vehicle (USV) for the first time…
The Army Is Building Its Autonomy Enterprise From the Integration Up
Activated in February, the Army’s new Capability Program Executive for Mission Autonomy is assembling an acquisition organization unlike any that…
Scaling What Works: Drone Dominance Moves from Demand Signal to Industrial Reality
The XPONENTIAL keynote panel confronted the question the Drone Dominance Program answered first—and what it exposed in doing so. For…
Gauntlet II: What the Drone Dominance Program Is Asking Industry to Do Next
Program leadership laid out the structure, quantities, and competitive logic of Phase II at XPONENTIAL—and spent an hour in open…
Red Cat Builds Toward an All-Domain Robotics Ecosystem
Red Cat is assembling an interconnected portfolio of autonomous systems across air, land, sea and beyond—and betting the battlefield of…
New JIATF 401 Handbook Reframes Counter-Drone Defense Around Five First Principles
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has published a 90-page handbook intended to give warfighters, federal agencies and local law enforcement…
Meeting the Operator Where They Are
DroneShield’s Tom Branstetter on U.S. Manufacturing Expansion, Multi-Domain Integration, and an Unprecedented Moment of C-UAS Alignment Tom Branstetter has spent…
19 Companies Out of 49 Contenders Qualify For Drone Dominance Gauntlet 2 Trial
The Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance Program has taken another step forward. Aimed at identifying and nurturing a championship stable…
Thales to Acquire Exail in €3.9 Billion Deal
Thales has signed a binding agreement to acquire the Gorgé family’s 35.51% stake in French maritime robotics and navigation firm…
Pentagon Consolidates Unmanned Systems Under New Portfolio Manager
The Department of Defense has established a new Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for unmanned offensive and defensive systems, designated DRPM-UxS,…
Ondas to Acquire DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 Million, Forming Ondas Sentinel Autonomous Defense Division
Deal unites World View’s stratospheric sensing with DZYNE’s long-endurance ISR, counter-UAS and precision-effects portfolio, and pushes Ondas’ 2026 revenue target…
AeroVironment Locks In $500 Million Domestic Shield IDIQ, Books First $80.5 Million Titan Task Order for Air Force Base Defense
Two same-day contract actions tie AV’s counter-UAS portfolio directly to the Pentagon’s expanding homeland counter-drone posture, with Titan systems already…
ProximaVision Air Ready™ Brings Tethered Aerial ISR from the Super Bowl to the Tactical Edge
The company built its system for live broadcast reliability. What it is selling to defense users is something different: a…
The FIFA World Cup: A Catalyst for C-UAS Investment, But ‘Not the Whole Story’
Government funding, new legislation and the drone threat moving from the battlefield into our communities are all accelerating growth in…
Teledyne’s Black Recon Puts a Grown-Up Black Hornet on Armored Vehicles
Teledyne FLIR unveiled a new vehicle-borne multi-role UAS called Black Recon at this June’s Eurosatory arms expo—one evolved from its…
JIATF-401 Partners with FBI to Expand C-UAS Training for Law Enforcement
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 is embedding instructors at the FBI’s National Counter-UAS Training Center to support the Counter-UAS Operator…
