Three additional nations have signed on to the Pentagon’s counter-drone procurement marketplace, the Army announced this week, expanding the initiative…
NATO Launches Layered C-UAS Experimentation Campaign, First Field Event Tests Integration
Allied Command Transformation has moved its Layered Counter-UAS Initiative — known as LCI-X — from framework into field experimentation, completing…
The Autonomy Stack: Establishing a ‘Software First’ Mindset
The need for more adaptable solutions and the U.S. Air Force’s new Autonomy Government Reference Architecture, or A-GRA, are driving…
The FCC’s New Role at the Center of the U.S. Drone Market
A supply chain security framework that began with a sweeping December 2025 prohibition on foreign-produced UAS is now generating its…
NYPD Stands Up Permanent Counter-Drone Unit Under Safer Skies Act
The New York City Police Department has stood up a permanent counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) unit with authority to electronically…
Drone Dominance Program Qualifies 48 Companies For Gauntlet 2 Trials
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) has issued a dramatically expanded list of participants for its second competitive Drone Dominance…
AeroVironment Expands AV_Halo Platform with INSTINCT and DETECT at SOF Week
AeroVironment used SOF Week in Tampa to announce two new additions to its AV_Halo unified mission software platform: AV_Halo INSTINCT,…
Teledyne FLIR Upgrades Rogue 1 Block 2 with Extended Range, Larger Warhead
Teledyne FLIR has unveiled an improved Block 2 variant of its Rogue 1 quadcopter enabling the loitering munition to strike…
Northrop Grumman Named Preferred Payload Provider for Drone Dominance Program
On the opening day of SOF Week, the Pentagon announced the five winners of its Drone Dominance Program Lethality Prize…
Unmanned, Autonomy, and Counter-UAS on the Tampa Agenda: What to Watch at SOF Week 2026
Live demonstrations along the Riverwalk, an expanded outdoor program, and a session track built around autonomy and interoperability put unmanned…
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
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
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 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 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 is excited to announce the next generation in brushless drone servo technology: our high-performance BD10BL. Designed specifically…
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…
DroneShield Awarded $24.9 Million in Australian Dollars in JIATF-401 Counter-Drone Contract
DroneShield has been awarded a contract valued at $24.9 million AUD supporting the mission of Joint Interagency Task Force 401 ...
Space Force Awards SpaceX $4.16 Billion for Space-Based Airborne Target Tracking Constellation
The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion Other Transaction Authority contract today for the Space-Based Airborne Moving Target ...
Motorola Solutions to Acquire D-Fend Solutions for $1.5 Billion
Motorola Solutions announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire D-Fend Solutions, an Israeli counter-drone technology company, ...
North Dakota’s Vantis Cuts BVLOS Waiver Timeline from Years to Weeks as Statewide Network Expands
The Northern Plains UAS Test Site hosted Vantis Fly Day on May 28 at the Gorman Field UAS Test Range ...
Royal Navy Deploys Autonomous Minehunting Systems Aboard Converted Mothership for Hormuz Mission
The Royal Navy's mine countermeasures mothership RFA Lyme Bay departed Gibraltar on May 26 carrying a suite of autonomous and ...
Shield AI Tapped to Bring Hivemind to LUCAS Drone Program
Shield AI announced at SOF Week that it had been selected by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense ...
Pentagon Awards $500M to Perennial Autonomy for Counter-Drone Interceptors Proven in Ukraine
The biggest contract announcement to emerge from SOF Week 2026 came not from one of the traditional defense primes but ...
Teledyne FLIR Upgrades FirstLook Throwbot with Thermal Sensors and Black Hornet Integration
Teledyne FLIR has unveiled FirstLook 125, a new iteration of the tiny ‘throwable’ tracked UGV used by infantry, EOD and ...
Poland, Australia, and South Korea Join Pentagon’s JIATF-401 Counter-Drone Marketplace
Three additional nations have signed on to the Pentagon's counter-drone procurement marketplace, the Army announced this week, expanding the initiative ...
NATO Launches Layered C-UAS Experimentation Campaign, First Field Event Tests Integration
Allied Command Transformation has moved its Layered Counter-UAS Initiative — known as LCI-X — from framework into field experimentation, completing ...
The Autonomy Stack: Establishing a ‘Software First’ Mindset
The need for more adaptable solutions and the U.S. Air Force’s new Autonomy Government Reference Architecture, or A-GRA, are driving ...
The FCC’s New Role at the Center of the U.S. Drone Market
A supply chain security framework that began with a sweeping December 2025 prohibition on foreign-produced UAS is now generating its ...
NYPD Stands Up Permanent Counter-Drone Unit Under Safer Skies Act
The New York City Police Department has stood up a permanent counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) unit with authority to electronically ...
Drone Dominance Program Qualifies 48 Companies For Gauntlet 2 Trials
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) has issued a dramatically expanded list of participants for its second competitive Drone Dominance ...
AeroVironment Expands AV_Halo Platform with INSTINCT and DETECT at SOF Week
AeroVironment used SOF Week in Tampa to announce two new additions to its AV_Halo unified mission software platform: AV_Halo INSTINCT, ...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded a $15.5 million contract to Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, for the Medium Aerial ...
Scaling ISR: From Sensors to Autonomous Perception at the Edge
As UAS proliferation accelerates and threat environments evolve, ISR is shifting from standalone sensors to scalable, AI-enabled systems—where performance, integration, ...
Ukraine’s 412th Nemesis Brigade Achieves First USV-Launched Interceptor Kill Against Shahed
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces have recorded the first confirmed destruction of a Russian Shahed attack drone using an interceptor launched ...
Australia Commits AUD 7 Billion to C-UAS, Awards Contracts to AIM Defence and SYPAQ
Australia has more than doubled its planned counter-UAS investment for the Australian Defence Force, allocating up to AUD 7 billion ...
Skydio Unveils Ability to Fly X10 Drone from a Browser with 5G Connection
Skydio announced Skydio Remote Flight Deck, a new offering that enables remote flight for Skydio X10 drones via a browser, ...
Anduril Announces Anvil-M Munition Variant Of Interceptor Platform
Anduril has unveiled Anvil-M, a new munitions variant of its autonomous Anvil interceptor drone that can effectively intercept and defeat ...
AUVSI Announces Green UAS Certification for Skyfront Perimeter 8+ Drone
AUVSI today announced it has awarded Green UAS certification to the Skyfront Perimeter 8 and 8+ long-endurance, hybrid-electric unmanned aircraft ...
Skydio Launches New X10 Drone
Skydio has announced its latest enterprise drone, the Skydio X10 ...
Gotonomi Offers Small-Sized GEO Satellite Connectivity
Gotonomi is a new geostationary satellite communication system for unmanned aircraft and other vehicles, small enough to hold in the ...
Draganfly’s Commander Expands Flexibility with Hybrid Fuel Variant, Promo Drone System
Canada’s Draganfly drone maker is highlighting the truck-like utility of its Commander 3 XL drone, showcased at the Commercial UAV ...
SEA-KIT Funded for Hydrogen-Powered USV, Refilling Station
SEA-KIT International has won funding from the Zero Emissions Vessels and Infrastructure (ZEVI) competition to design and manufacture a hydrogen ...
Growing Drone Industry Lifting Component Makers such as Hitec
A growing drone market means a growing components market, and a representative from servo maker HITEC Commercial Solutions said the ...
u-blox Introduces its First Multi-mode Cellular and Satellite IoT Module with Embedded Positioning
The u-blox SARA-S520M10L is designed to ensure seamless connectivity even when no terrestrial cellular network is available. u-blox, a global ...
D-Fend Solutions Launches EnforceAir2 Next Generation Counter-UAS System
Counter-drone company D-Fend Solutions announced the launch of its new product, EnforceAir2, which features the best offerings of the original ...
Atmos UAV Introduces Sony a6100 Oblique to Provide Accurate, Affordable 3D Mapping
Atmos UAV announced the integration of the new Sony a6100 Oblique camera into its flagship surveying drone, the Marlyn Cobalt ...
A2Z Drone Delivery Launches Upgraded RDST Longtail Delivery Drone
A2Z Drone Delivery Inc., a developer of commercial drone delivery systems, has launched its second-generation RDST integrated cargo drone ...
LiquidPiston Engine Tapped for Generator Demonstration
LiquidPiston Inc. today announced it has been awarded an $8.3 million contract by Parsons Corp. to revolutionize battlefield power generation ...
XAG P100 Pro Agricultural Drone Launches in Vietnam
P100 Pro, the latest generation of the XAG Agricultural Drone, has been released in Dong Thap province of Vietnam, taking ...
u-blox Introduces the Smallest LTE-M / NB-IoT Module with 23 dBm RF Output Power and 2G Fallback
The u-blox LEXI-R4 is the newest compact 16 x 16 mm module with 2G fallback capability. Thalwil, Switzerland – July ...
XPONENTIAL Preview: Industry Perspectives – Part Two
The Futurist, Ryan E. Fitzgerald Intelligent Autonomous Systems Mission Outcome Lead, Naval Program Office, The MITRE Corporation Today, each individual UAS ...
XPONENTIAL Preview: Industry Perspectives – Part One
This year, AUVSI has curated some of the unmanned and autonomous industries’ top talent to serve as educational faculty for ...
Up Close With… Brian Wynne
The president and CEO of AUVSI will be happy to see you now that XPONENTIAL™ is live from Atlanta. Brian ...
HAPS Alliance Growth and Momentum Helps Unlock Potential of the Stratosphere
Kraus Hamdani Aerospace’s Fatema Hamdani and Capgemini’s Rory Mulvey Join Board New Paper “Driving the Potential of the Stratosphere” Spotlights ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Builder: Tomislav Žigo
Tomislav Žigo, CTO/Vice President, CLAYCO Over the last seven years, Tomislav Žigo has seen what strong collaborations with drone industry ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Advocate: Mary-Caitlin Ray
Mary-Caitlin Ray, Aviation/Business Aviation Lawyer, Crowell & Moring Attorney Mary-Catlin Ray’s take on collaboration is unabashed: “Collaboration in and between ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Learner: Jack Elston
Jack Elston, President and CEO, Black Swift Technologies When Jack Elston started Black Swift Technologies in 2011, he’d already been ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Integrator: Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil
Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil, CEO, Microdrones "I really believe in collaboration, bringing a different point of view, perspective, expertise,” Microdrones CEO Vivien Heriard-Dubreuil said ...
Collaboration Thought Leaders – The Motivator: Miguel Amor
Miguel Amor, Chief Marketing Officer, Hexagon's Autonomy & Positioning division "On paper, collaboration appears simple: a group of people working ...
