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A tactical unmanned aircraft system operator with the Regimental Engineer Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment (2CR), leads a Soldier on how to use a soldering iron when assembling drones during a three-week build phase of the Purpose Built Attritable Systems on July 21, 2025, at Balli Army Airfield in Germany. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army by 1st Sgt. Luisito Brooks.

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…

230503-N-GR718-1093 A West Coast-based Naval Special Warfare operator launches a Puma RQ-20, an unmanned, hand-launched, intelligence gathering aircraft system, from a combatant craft (assault) during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned System Battle Problem (UxS IBP). UxS IBP 23 is a U.S. Pacific Fleet experiment, executed by U.S. 3rd Fleet, operationalizing multi-domain employment of unmanned systems to create Fleet warfighting advantages. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chelsea D. Meiller)

Inside PEO-TIS: SOCOM’s Tactical Information Systems Office

At SOF Week 2026 in Tampa, the program managers of U.S. Special Operations Command’s Program Executive Office for Tactical Information…