The U.S. Army is overhauling its operational doctrine across all echelons to incorporate lessons from the accelerating battlefield use of…
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General Cherry Announces U.S. Joint Venture with Wilcox Industries to Produce FPV and Interceptor Drones
Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Cherry has announced a strategic joint venture with Wilcox Industries Corp., a Newington, New Hampshire-based defense…
L3Harris Delivers Submarine-Launched AUV Capability to U.S. Navy Under DIU Contract
L3Harris Technologies has received an Other Transaction Authority contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to deliver its Torpedo Tube Launch…
Saronic Raises $1.75B, Expands Louisiana Shipbuilding Footprint as Autonomous Surface Vessel Production Scales
Saronic Technologies has closed a $1.75 billion Series D funding round at a $9.25 billion valuation, with the capital directed…
Navy Cancels and Reboots its $2.1 Billion Drone Boat Rapid Procurement Program
Just seven months after the Navy debuted its new Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC) program aimed at building low-cost Unmanned…
Announcing Defense Strategies Institute’s 14th Annual Unmanned & Autonomous Systems Summit
Unmanned & autonomous systems community to convene on April 8-9, 2026, in Washington, D.C. In FY2026, the Department of War…
AV Unveils LOCUST X3 Laser C-UAS System
Third-generation directed energy platform emphasizes modularity, AI-enabled targeting and low-cost counter-drone engagement. AeroVironment (AV) has introduced LOCUST X3, a third-generation…
Anduril Begins Production of ‘Fury’ Drones at New Arsenal-1 Factory
This year the Air Force will complete evaluations of two rival unmanned jets for Increment 1 of its Collaborative Combat…
Europe’s UAS and Counter-UAS Reset: NATO Standardization, EU Industrial Policy
Europe is moving from episodic counter-UAS buys toward something closer to an architecture: shared standards, testable assurance, common data formats,…
Five Good Questions: Dan Magy, Firestorm Labs
Dan Magy is the CEO of Firestorm Labs, a defense technology company focused on rapidly configurable unmanned systems and forward-deployed…
GA-ASI and U.S. Air Force Demonstrate Passive IR-Based Autonomy for Collaborative Combat Aircraft
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Air Force recently conducted a flight demonstration focused on autonomous sensing…
Beyond the Gauntlet: Drone Dominance and the Lessons of Ukraine’s FPV War
Editor’s Note: This analysis was completed prior to the release of Gauntlet Phase I results in March 2026. Skycutter’s fiber-optic…
AV Acquires Empirical Systems Aerospace to Expand UAS Engineering and Manufacturing Capacity
AeroVironment (AV) has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero), a California-based aerospace engineering firm specializing in unmanned aircraft systems and…
U.S. Army Enterprise Contract with Anduril Positions Lattice as Core Platform for C-UAS Operations
The U.S. Army has awarded Anduril Industries a new enterprise contract valued at up to $20 billion over 10 years, establishing the company’s…
Pentagon Deploys Merops Drone Interceptor System to Counter Iranian Shahed Threat
The Pentagon has moved to acquire the Project Eagle Merops counter-UAS system and its low-cost AS3 Surveyor interceptor drone for…
U.S., U.K. Move to Align Counter-Drone Data Standards
A new U.S.-U.K. declaration aims to make counter-UAS systems more interoperable by standardizing how data is shared, fused and evaluated…
