U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct Mobile Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integrated Defense System (M-LIDS) training, Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Jan. 25, 2022. The Soldiers trained on the M-LIDS weapon system, which can be mounted on vehicles and is designed to target and disable, or destroy hostile drones or other unmanned aerial vehicles, in support of the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve advise, assist, and enable mission. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Karl R. Cain II)

Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot

How Western militaries are trying to restore a sustainable cost-exchange ratio against cheap drones The announcement out of BAE Systems’…

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jordan Chaussepied, a small unmanned aircraft system operator with the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team, flies a drone with a member from the House of Armed Services Committee, during a drone demonstration at Weapons Training Battalion on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Aug. 6, 2025. MCADT conducted a range demonstration for members of the HASC highlighting their capabilities and potential applications on the battlefield. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Anthony C. Ramsey Jr.)

Gauntlet Phase II: Tougher, Differentiated Missions

Phase II of the Army’s Drone Dominance Gauntlet raises the stakes — longer range, tighter urban missions, continuous electronic warfare,…

A Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system flies toward a simulated target during a kinetic first-person view drone range on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Sept. 12, 2025. The range was conducted to validate a scalable, repeatable methodology for enabling FPV strike operations and used as a reference to support cost-effective training and eventual kinetic employment. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Zachariah Ferraro)

Gauntlet Phase 1: America’s New Champions of FPV Warfare

From Garage Startups to Pentagon Champions: Meet the Eleven Companies Remaking American FPV Warfare Phase 1 of the Pentagon’s Drone…

DZYNE Unveils Blitz Hand-Launch UAS With 93-Mile Strike Range

DZYNE Unveils Blitz Hand-Launch UAS With 93-Mile Strike Range

While America's drone industry has fixated on first-person view quadcopters like those swarming Ukrainian battlefields, DZYNE Technologies is bucking the ...
SOF Week 2026 Returns to Tampa as Acquisition Speed Becomes the Industry Test

SOF Week 2026 Returns to Tampa as Acquisition Speed Becomes the Industry Test

USSOCOM's annual gathering convenes May 18–21 at the Tampa Convention Center, with a program built around the affordable-mass, attritable-systems, and ...
Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip

Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip

How Hyfix’s H1 brings the autonomy stack into a single architecture—making autonomous systems more trusted, more scalable, and better suited ...
Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Sign MOU to Bring Hivemind to Taiwan USV Fleet

Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Sign MOU to Bring Hivemind to Taiwan USV Fleet

Shield AI and Taiwan-based Thunder Tiger Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software ...
Trimble Targets Drone Delivery Integration with Smart Antenna Enclosure for PX-1 RTX

Trimble Targets Drone Delivery Integration with Smart Antenna Enclosure for PX-1 RTX

Trimble has released a smart antenna enclosure option for its PX-1 RTX positioning solution, packaging centimeter-level GNSS-inertial hardware with an ...
Hitec Commercial Solutions Announces Next-Gen Servo for Small UAS

Hitec Commercial Solutions Announces Next-Gen Servo for Small UAS

Hitec Commercial Solutions is excited to announce the next generation in brushless drone servo technology: our high-performance BD10BL. Designed specifically ...
Five Good Questions: MatrixSpace

Five Good Questions: MatrixSpace

Matthew Kling is VP and General Manager of AI Systems at MatrixSpace, leading development of the AiCloud and AiEdge platforms. He ...
JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot

JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has selected five military installations to host a directed-energy counter-UAS pilot program authorized under the ...
Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems

Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems

The U.S. Army has selected three additional vendor solutions for its company-level Small Unmanned Aircraft System portfolio, expanding the program ...
Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot

Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot

How Western militaries are trying to restore a sustainable cost-exchange ratio against cheap drones A first-person view small unmanned aircraft ...
Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire

Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire

Four years of war have produced one of the most dynamic defense technology ecosystems in the world. Now Ukraine is ...
XPONENTIAL 2026: What to Expect in Detroit

XPONENTIAL 2026: What to Expect in Detroit

Inside Unmanned Systems is proud to serve as an official media partner of XPONENTIAL 2026, the world's largest autonomous systems ...
FAA Releases Section 2209 NPRM, Two-Tier Framework for Drone Restrictions Around Critical Infrastructure

FAA Releases Section 2209 NPRM, Two-Tier Framework for Drone Restrictions Around Critical Infrastructure

The Federal Aviation Administration on May 6 published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would, nearly a decade after Congress ...
Scaling Autonomy Requires Aligned Policy and Strategy

Scaling Autonomy Requires Aligned Policy and Strategy

There’s been a shift in Washington. Congress just held two hearings focused on robotics and autonomous systems in just over ...
Wireless Industry Urges FCC to Expand Licensed Spectrum Access for Drone Operations

Wireless Industry Urges FCC to Expand Licensed Spectrum Access for Drone Operations

Major wireless industry groups and technology companies filed initial comments with the FCC this week calling for expanded licensed spectrum ...
Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip

Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip

How Hyfix’s H1 brings the autonomy stack into a single architecture—making autonomous systems more trusted, more scalable, and better suited ...
Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Sign MOU to Bring Hivemind to Taiwan USV Fleet

Shield AI, Thunder Tiger Sign MOU to Bring Hivemind to Taiwan USV Fleet

Shield AI and Taiwan-based Thunder Tiger Corp. have signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software ...
Trimble Targets Drone Delivery Integration with Smart Antenna Enclosure for PX-1 RTX

Trimble Targets Drone Delivery Integration with Smart Antenna Enclosure for PX-1 RTX

Trimble has released a smart antenna enclosure option for its PX-1 RTX positioning solution, packaging centimeter-level GNSS-inertial hardware with an ...
Five Good Questions: MatrixSpace

Five Good Questions: MatrixSpace

Matthew Kling is VP and General Manager of AI Systems at MatrixSpace, leading development of the AiCloud and AiEdge platforms. He ...
JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot

JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has selected five military installations to host a directed-energy counter-UAS pilot program authorized under the ...
Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems

Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems

The U.S. Army has selected three additional vendor solutions for its company-level Small Unmanned Aircraft System portfolio, expanding the program ...
Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire

Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire

Four years of war have produced one of the most dynamic defense technology ecosystems in the world. Now Ukraine is ...
XPONENTIAL 2026: What to Expect in Detroit

XPONENTIAL 2026: What to Expect in Detroit

Inside Unmanned Systems is proud to serve as an official media partner of XPONENTIAL 2026, the world's largest autonomous systems ...
Scaling Autonomy Requires Aligned Policy and Strategy

Scaling Autonomy Requires Aligned Policy and Strategy

There’s been a shift in Washington. Congress just held two hearings focused on robotics and autonomous systems in just over ...
Wireless Industry Urges FCC to Expand Licensed Spectrum Access for Drone Operations

Wireless Industry Urges FCC to Expand Licensed Spectrum Access for Drone Operations

Major wireless industry groups and technology companies filed initial comments with the FCC this week calling for expanded licensed spectrum ...
Gauntlet Phase II: Tougher, Differentiated Missions

Gauntlet Phase II: Tougher, Differentiated Missions

Phase II of the Army's Drone Dominance Gauntlet raises the stakes — longer range, tighter urban missions, continuous electronic warfare, ...
Gauntlet Phase 1: America's New Champions of FPV Warfare

Gauntlet Phase 1: America’s New Champions of FPV Warfare

From Garage Startups to Pentagon Champions: Meet the Eleven Companies Remaking American FPV Warfare A Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft ...
Five Companies Win the Pentagon’s Drone Munition Lethality Prize Challenge

Five Companies Win the Pentagon’s Drone Munition Lethality Prize Challenge

The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) announced this Wednesday its five preferred companies to manufacture modular warheads for small kamikaze ...
From Platform Builder to Defense Systems Prime

From Platform Builder to Defense Systems Prime

AeroVironment’s CEO Wahid Nawabi discusses how defense needs are shifting, and why the company is well positioned to be the ...
Robinson Unmanned, Sikorsky Win Marine Corps Contract for Autonomous Cargo Helicopter

Robinson Unmanned, Sikorsky Win Marine Corps Contract for Autonomous Cargo Helicopter

The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded a $15.5 million contract to Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, for the Medium Aerial ...
SBG Systems Releases New Ellipse Upgrade

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

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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
Carbonix, RIEGL, and Phase One Forge First-of-its-Kind VTOL Integration for Advanced Aerial Surveying

Carbonix, RIEGL, and Phase One Forge First-of-its-Kind VTOL Integration for Advanced Aerial Surveying

Carbonix, in collaboration with RIEGL and Phase One, has achieved a novel integration in aerial surveying by successfully mounting RIEGL's ...
Skydio Enhances Defense Capabilities with New X10D Drone and Dynamic Channel Switching Technology

Skydio Enhances Defense Capabilities with New X10D Drone and Dynamic Channel Switching Technology

Skydio, a U.S. drone manufacturer known for its autonomous flight technology, has announced the commencement of X10D drone deliveries to ...
D-Fend Solutions Expands U.S. Team with Defense and Homeland Security Experts

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
Air, Military, People

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 ...
The Trusted Disruptor: Up Close with L3Harris and the FVR-90
Air, Military, People

The Trusted Disruptor: Up Close with L3Harris and the FVR-90

An interview with Todd Rimbey, General Manager, Agile Development Group at L3Harris. The 25-year industry veteran talked to Inside Unmanned ...