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…
XPONENTIAL 2026: Industrializing Autonomy
From the Drone Dominance Program to Blue UAS institutionalization, XPONENTIAL 2026 showed an industry pivoting from innovation to industrialization. For…
Kongsberg Maritime’s Eco-Autonomy Evolution
In Norway, chemical company Yara had a problem: its pollution-conscious government told it to stop trucking fertilizer and other cargos thousands…
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
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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…
Merlin Labs: Bringing Autonomy to the Air Force’s Bread-and-Butter Fleet
The U.S. Air Force’s autonomy future may rest less on next-generation platforms than on the 400 C-130Js and 300 KC-135s…
Levitate and the New Math of Military Drone Production
Times Microwave’s Levitate family is built for the middle market in military UAS: lighter than legacy aerospace practice, stronger than…
Amprius Technologies Scales Silicon Anode Batteries for Defense Drone Market
The company’s silicon anode cells deliver twice the flight time of standard lithium-ion. The race to build a compliant domestic…
Democratic Partnerships Are the Next Frontier for Trusted Autonomy
Washington is finally beginning to absorb a hard lesson: the United States cannot afford to lose robotics and autonomous systems…
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…
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. An ...
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 ...
XPONENTIAL 2026: Industrializing Autonomy
From the Drone Dominance Program to Blue UAS institutionalization, XPONENTIAL 2026 showed an industry pivoting from innovation to industrialization. A ...
Kongsberg Maritime’s Eco-Autonomy Evolution
In Norway, chemical company Yara had a problem: its pollution-conscious government told it to stop trucking fertilizer and other cargos ...
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 Overland AI’s ULTRA platform ...
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 ...
Merlin Labs: Bringing Autonomy to the Air Force’s Bread-and-Butter Fleet
The U.S. Air Force’s autonomy future may rest less on next-generation platforms than on the 400 C-130Js and 300 KC-135s ...
Levitate and the New Math of Military Drone Production
Times Microwave’s Levitate family is built for the middle market in military UAS: lighter than legacy aerospace practice, stronger than ...
Amprius Technologies Scales Silicon Anode Batteries for Defense Drone Market
The company’s silicon anode cells deliver twice the flight time of standard lithium-ion. The race to build a compliant domestic ...
Democratic Partnerships Are the Next Frontier for Trusted Autonomy
Washington is finally beginning to absorb a hard lesson: the United States cannot afford to lose robotics and autonomous systems ...
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 ...
South Korea to Acquire 20,000 Low-Cost Systems and Fast-Track K-Lucas Loitering Munition
South Korea's Defense Ministry announced a broad overhaul of its uncrewed warfare strategy on June 26, with Defense Minister Ahn ...
Thales-led Team Develops Trustworthy PNT for Autonomous Drones
Thales Alenia Space France, working with UPT, ABZero and DroneVolt under the European Space Agency (ESA) NAVISP program, has completed ...
Commanding Remote Areas
Operating across a 7,000-square-mile reservation has shaped the Cherokee Nation’s business portfolio, from medical supply delivery to manufacturing and fabrication ...
Honeywell’s Kestrel Brings Resilient Navigation to Group 2 and 3 UAS in Contested Environments
Honeywell Aerospace launched Kestrel on June 17, a compact navigation system designed for uncrewed platforms operating where GPS signals are ...
Ondas to Acquire Cyberhawk in $125 Million Critical Infrastructure Push
Ondas Inc. has agreed to acquire Cyberhawk, a Scotland-based drone inspection and infrastructure intelligence company, in a deal valued at ...
DIU’s RIMES Program Taps Mach and Whisper Aero for Shipboard-Capable Strike UAS Prototype
The U.S. Navy wants long-range unmanned aircraft that can operate without a runway, a carrier deck or elaborate launch-and-recovery equipment ...
Air Force Goes Split Buy: Fury and Dark Merlin Both Enter CCA Production
Following months of flight testing, in 2026 the Air Force was expected to choose between two competing drone combat jets ...
Precision, Performance, and Integration: The ADIS16576 Sets a New Standard for MEMS IMUs
In the fast-moving world of autonomous systems and advanced navigation platforms, precision and reliability are paramount. From unmanned aerial vehicles ...
OxTS Launches WayFinder and LiDAR Boost for GNSS-denied Localization
OxTS has launched WayFinder, a complete localisation solution for any environment, even GNSS-denied spaces. Functioning out of the box with ...
SBG Systems Releases New Ellipse Upgrade
SBG Systems has announced the New Ellipse upgrade for their Ellipse product line. For both the AHRS or INS version, ...
Hitec Releases DBX961WP Steel Gear Actuator
Engineered with hardened steel gears, dual ball bearings and a rugged aluminum alloy case, the DBX961WP with a bearing-supported robot ...
L3Harris Launches New Technology to Control Autonomous Swarms
L3Harris Technologies has introduced AMORPHOUS, its new software that features a single user interface to operate thousands of autonomous assets ...
Dronetag Introduces RIDER for Drone Safety in Response to Growing Airspace Concerns
With recent incidents such as unidentified drone sightings in New Jersey and across the US, and a drone collision with ...
Teledyne FLIR Launches Prism Supervisor Software for Enhanced UAS Autonomy
Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today announced the release of Prism™ Supervisor, the latest addition to its Prism ...
Hexagon | NovAtel Launches GAJT-310, Providing Jamming Protection for Small Platforms
Hexagon | NovAtel has announced its lowest SWaP (size, weight and power) GNSS Anti-Jam Technology (GAJT) with the launch of ...
Skyfront Unveils MagniPhy, Advanced Drone Magnetometer
Skyfront, a producer of high-endurance hybrid drones, has launched its next-generation drone magnetometer, the Skyfront MagniPhy. Designed for surveying, mineral ...
Neousys Technology Unveils Lightweight AI Computer for Unmanned Systems
Neousys Technology has announced the FLYC-300, a new addition to its Jetson-based computer family, designed for advanced applications in UAVs, ...
Teledyne FLIR Defense Launches Rogue 1 Loitering Munition System at SOF Week
Teledyne FLIR Defense, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, unveiled its Rogue 1 loitering munition system at the Special Operations ...
Soaring Gabriel Cargo Drone Completes Nighttime Ammunition Resupply for U.S. Army
Soaring has successfully completed a nighttime autonomous aerial resupply of ammunition during a battalion-level Live Fire Exercise (LFX) with its ...
Stratom Advances Autonomous Pallet Loader for U.S. Marine Corps
Stratom has announced the next phase in the development of its Autonomous Pallet Loader (APL), aimed at enhancing support for ...
A2Z Drone Delivery Unveils Enhanced Safety and Hardware for Smart Drone Winch
A2Z Drone Delivery, Inc., a developer of commercial drone delivery solutions, has announced the release of new safety features and ...
ModalAI Expands Drone Tech Offerings with New NDAA-Compliant Components for U.S. Industry
ModalAI, a manufacturer within the Blue UAS Framework known for its lightweight 16g autonomous UAS autopilot VOXL 2, has broadened ...
5 Good Questions: Miguel Ángel de Frutos Carro, UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía
Miguel Ángel de Frutos Carro is Director and CTO at UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía, the Spanish company specialized in designing control ...
D-Fend Solutions Expands U.S. Team with Defense and Homeland Security Experts
D-Fend Solutions, a provider of radio frequency (RF), cyber-based counter-drone technology, has announced the expansion of its U.S. team to ...
Angel Aerial Systems Unveils Innovative Trio Airframe at Xponential
At Xponential 2024 in San Diego, Inside Unmanned Systems sat down with Will Hasting, CEO of Angel Aerial Systems, to ...
Northern Plains Spearheads UAS Test Site Unmanned Logistics Program
The Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) is spearheading Project ULTRA, a significant initiative supported by the Office of the ...
Grupo Oesía Showcases Autonomy Solutions at Xponential 2024: Interview with César Martínez
Grupo Oesía is a group of multinational companies with more than 45 years of experience designing and developing technology for ...
Calian Antenna Technology for UAVs: Insights from Ken MacLeod and Joseph Botros at Xponential 2024
At Xponential 2024 in San Diego, Inside Unmanned Systems connected with Product Manager Ken MacLeod and Field Applications Engineer Joseph ...
Five Good Questions: Juan Albanell, Head of System Test Engineering at Zipline
Juan Albanell is the head of system test engineering at Zipline, the autonomous drone delivery company. Prior to leading the system ...
Maxon Drives Precision in Unmanned Systems: Interview with Jeffrey Randall at Xponential 2024
At Xponential 2024 in San Diego, Inside Unmanned Systems spoke with Senior Sales Engineer Jeffrey Randall from Maxon to discuss ...
Stratom Showcases Autonomous Ground Systems at Xponential 2024: Insights from CEO Mark Gordon
At Xponential 2024 in San Diego, Inside Unmanned Systems sat down with Mark Gordon, CEO of Stratom, and Stefan Elsener, ...
Transforming Airspace Safety: Insights from Sagetech Avionics CEO Tom Furey at Xponential 2024
At Xponential 2024 in San Diego, Inside Unmanned Systems sat down with Tom Furey, CEO of Sagetech Avionics, to discuss ...
Inertial Labs Tackles GNSS Vulnerability with Advanced Navigation Solutions: Interview with CEO Jamie Marraccini at Xponential 2024
At Xponential 2024 in San Diego, Inside Unmanned Systems sat down with Jamie Marraccini, CEO of Inertial Labs, to discuss ...
Inspired Flight Soars with American-Made Drones: Interview with Co-Founder Adam Bilmes at Xponential 2024
At Xponential 2024 in San Diego, Inside Unmanned Systems sat down with Adam Bilmes, co-founder of Inspired Flight, to discuss ...
Draganfly Unveils Modular Drone Innovations at Xponential 2024: A Conversation with Director Coty Vann
Interview with Coty Vann, Director of UAS Programs at Draganfly, a drone manufacturer founded in Canada in 1998. IUS: Thanks ...
The Hivemind Working Toward Resilient Intelligent Teams
Discover how Nathan Michael, CTO of Shield AI and former Associate Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is ...
Up Close: AeroVironment CEO Wahid Nawabi
Wahid Nawabi, CEO, AeroVironment, outlines the evolving landscape of autonomous defense, emphasizing the importance of AI, computer vision, and collaborative ...
