Skyeton, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Ukrainian long-endurance UAS manufacturer Skyeton Holdings, will open its first flagship U.S. manufacturing facility…
Military
BAE Bets on Sovereignty, Unveils Brontanax Loyal Wingman to British Military in Search of ‘Storm Fighter’
BAE Systems unveiled a Loyal Wingman drone fighter called Brontanax at the UK’s Farnborough airshow: a prototype the company’s FalconWorks…
TEKEVER Unveils AR6, a New Family of Autonomous Systems for Heavy Lift
TEKEVER has revealed AR6, a new product family that extends the company’s autonomous portfolio into the heavy-lift class for both…
FCC Extends Trusted-Drone Exemptions, Opens Path to Broader Import Bans
On July 21, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau extended two existing Covered List exemptions, made a third…
Inside the Drone Dominance Supply Chain: What Every U.S. Drone Company Must Source—and by When
Inside Unmanned Systems maps the Pentagon’s new component-level requirements across the NDAA, Blue UAS and Drone Dominance frameworks—showing where platforms…
Drone Dominance Program Launches New ‘Gauntlet’ Mission C Competition for Heavy Gravity-Bomber Drones
The Pentagon’s multi-phase Drone Dominance Gauntlet competition seeking to stimulate development and mass production of low-cost first-person view (FPV) kamikaze…
Invisible Enablers
Leading-Edge Mesh Radio Companies are Marketing For the Future. Radios and their underlying comms systems have been near-invisible enablers, guiding…
Anduril and Archer Unveil Jointly Built Autonomous VTOL Platform, Thunder
Anduril and Archer Aviation have unveiled a jointly developed, dual-use VTOL aircraft platform at Farnborough, with Anduril showcasing the defense…
The Asymmetric Edge: Emil Michael Lays Out DoD’s AI Architecture at SOF Week
The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering described a three-layer approach to embedding AI into warfighting — and…
Two Minutes Instead of Days: Inside a SOF Week Demo of AI “Warfighting Agents”
At SOF Week’s solution stage, a Vannevar Labs presentation titled “Mission-Ready AI: Accelerating Decisions with Agent Control Plane and Mission…
Saronic to Build $3 Billion Port Alpha Shipyard in Brownsville, Texas
Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas as the site for Port Alpha, a next-generation shipyard the company says will help expand…
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…
