U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Nov. 23, 2025) Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are positioned on the tarmac at a base in the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) operating area, Nov. 23. The LUCAS platforms are part of a one-way attack drone squadron CENTCOM recently deployed to the Middle East to strengthen regional security and deterrence. (Courtesy Photo)

U.S. Uses Shahed-Class Strike Drone in First Combat Deployment

The Pentagon has conducted its first operational combat use of a low-cost, long-range one-way attack drone, signaling a shift from…

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Jospeh Howell, left, and Sgt. Tuan Nguyen, low altitude air defense gunners with Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems Detachment, 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, attached to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Central Command, mount a sensor onto a Marine air defense integrated system vehicle in Southwest Asia, April 22, 2019. 2nd LAAD Battalion provides the SPMAGTF-CR-CC with close-in, low altitude, surface-to-air weapons fires in defense of forward combat areas, vital areas, and installations in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, working with partner forces to defeat Daesh. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alina Thackray)

El Paso Airspace Restriction Lifted Amid Counter-UAS Testing Concerns

The FAA briefly imposed an unusually broad flight restriction affecting operations at El Paso International Airport, initially described as being…

U.S., U.K. Move to Align Counter-Drone Data Standards

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 ...
The Edge of Visibility: EO/IR System Design Realities for Modern C-UAS

The Edge of Visibility: EO/IR System Design Realities for Modern C-UAS

As drone threats push detection ranges outward, C-UAS performance is increasingly decided at the limits of visibility—where targets are only ...
JIATF-401 Issues Counter-Drone Sensor Guide Emphasizing Privacy Protections

JIATF-401 Issues Counter-Drone Sensor Guide Emphasizing Privacy Protections

The Army-led Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has released a new public guide explaining how counter-UAS detection technologies work and ...
Drone Dominance Gauntlet Names 11 FPV Winners

Drone Dominance Gauntlet Names 11 FPV Winners

Starting February 17, 26 drone manufacturers participated in a multi-week Drone Dominance Gauntlet designed to identify the best first-person view ...
Times Microwave Systems Targets UAV Weight and RF Loss with Levitate Cable Assemblies

Times Microwave Systems Targets UAV Weight and RF Loss with Levitate Cable Assemblies

Times Microwave Systems has introduced Levitate, a new family of ultra-lightweight RF cable assemblies aimed at next-generation UAV and avionics ...
Drone Dominance Hearing Sharpens Pentagon’s Small UAS Industrial Strategy

Drone Dominance Hearing Sharpens Pentagon’s Small UAS Industrial Strategy

In February, the Drone Dominance Program (DDP) invited 25 vendors to a “Gauntlet” fly-off at Fort Benning, part of a ...
From Coaxial Drones to Turbine-Class Unmanned

From Coaxial Drones to Turbine-Class Unmanned

Robinson Unmanned’s Strategy for Scalable Vertical Lift The unmanned aviation sector is entering a new phase. Early innovation produced a ...
Ondas To Acquire Defense Prime Mistral 

Ondas To Acquire Defense Prime Mistral 

Ondas Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire U.S. defense prime contractor Mistral Inc. in an all-stock merger valued ...
JIATF-401, FAA Complete Counter-Drone Laser Tests at White Sands

JIATF-401, FAA Complete Counter-Drone Laser Tests at White Sands

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) and the Federal Aviation Administration completed a two-day high-energy laser test campaign at White ...
Embraer, Valkyrie Aero Add AI C-UAS Suite to A-29 Super Tucano

Embraer, Valkyrie Aero Add AI C-UAS Suite to A-29 Super Tucano

Embraer Defense & Security and U.S. contractor Valkyrie Aero are expanding the mission set of the A-29 Super Tucano with ...
Army Optics R&D Aims To Extend UAS Reach, Cut Sensor Costs

Army Optics R&D Aims To Extend UAS Reach, Cut Sensor Costs

The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command C5ISR Center is pushing a new generation of unmanned aircraft sensor payloads that promise higher-resolution ...
Trusted Autonomy Requires Secure Allied Supply Chains

Trusted Autonomy Requires Secure Allied Supply Chains

Uncrewed vehicles, robotics and autonomous systems are reshaping the future of commercial industries, warfighting and manufacturing. As deployment accelerates, secure ...
Near Earth Autonomy, Honeywell Advance Unmanned Black Hawk for Contested Logistics 

Near Earth Autonomy, Honeywell Advance Unmanned Black Hawk for Contested Logistics 

Near Earth Autonomy and partners Honeywell, Moog and XP Services have completed a year of integration and flight work on ...
The Blue UAS Shift: Interview with DCMA Commander

The Blue UAS Shift: Interview with DCMA Commander

DCMA is accelerating a trusted marketplace for vetted drones and components. Air Force Col. Dustin Thomas, DCMA Commander. Image: DCMA ...
Thales Launches FAA Radar Data Hub to Support UAS Integration in North Dakota

Thales Launches FAA Radar Data Hub to Support UAS Integration in North Dakota

Thales has announced the launch of a new FAA radar data hub in North Dakota, creating a secure pathway for unfiltered ...
Thales Launches FAA Radar Data Hub to Support UAS Integration in North Dakota

Thales Launches FAA Radar Data Hub to Support UAS Integration in North Dakota

Thales has announced the launch of a new FAA radar data hub in North Dakota, creating a secure pathway for unfiltered ...
A Shared Recognition for the Inside Unmanned Systems Community

A Shared Recognition for the Inside Unmanned Systems Community

Inside Unmanned Systems has been named a finalist in two categories in the 2026 Jesse H. Neal Awards: Best Single Issue of a Magazine ...
AV Wins $186 Million U.S. Army Order for Next-Generation Switchblade

AV Wins $186 Million U.S. Army Order for Next-Generation Switchblade

AeroVironment has received a $186 million delivery order from the U.S. Army for next-generation Switchblade loitering munition systems, the first ...
JIATF Brings Counter-UAS Marketplace to Initial Operational Capability

JIATF Brings Counter-UAS Marketplace to Initial Operational Capability

The Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401) has declared initial operational capability for a new Counter-UAS Marketplace, an online ...
NATO’s “Safe Skies” Drone Training Sharpens Eastern Flank Air Policing

NATO’s “Safe Skies” Drone Training Sharpens Eastern Flank Air Policing

NATO Allied Air Command has highlighted a new “Safe Skies” training mission that brings drones directly into the day-to-day work ...
Swarm Aero Announces Advanced Manufacturing Center

Swarm Aero Announces Advanced Manufacturing Center

Swarm Aero, a developer of large uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms, announced the opening of its Advanced Manufacturing Center from ...
RTX's Collins Aerospace Autonomy Solution, Sidekick, Flies GA-ASI's YFQ-42A CCA Platform

RTX’s Collins Aerospace Autonomy Solution, Sidekick, Flies GA-ASI’s YFQ-42A CCA Platform

Semi-autonomous flight enabled by advanced software. Collins Aerospace demonstrated its Sidekick mission autonomy software in a successful test flight of ...
Test Success: ATLAS Uncrewed Ground Vehicle Put Through its Paces 

Test Success: ATLAS Uncrewed Ground Vehicle Put Through its Paces 

BAE Systems announced successful trials for its Autonomous Tactical Light Armour System (ATLAS) Uncrewed Ground Vehicle (UGV). Image: BAE Systems ...
Shield AI Selected as Mission Autonomy Provider for Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

Shield AI Selected as Mission Autonomy Provider for Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program

 Shield AI announced its selection as a mission autonomy provider supporting the U.S. Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program ...
Lockheed Martin Unveils ‘Lamprey’ Undersea Drone That Can Hitchhike on Warships

Lockheed Martin Unveils ‘Lamprey’ Undersea Drone That Can Hitchhike on Warships

The Lamprey MMAUV is designed to latch onto ships and submarines, recharge in transit, and arrive on station as a ...
UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía and EAD (Ekolot Aerospace & Defense) Drive ZEUS VTOL Platform in Poland

UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía and EAD (Ekolot Aerospace & Defense) Drive ZEUS VTOL Platform in Poland

UAV Navigation-Grupo Oesía has announced its collaboration with the multinational company based in Poland Ekolot Aerospace and Defense (EAD) to integrate its ...
NATO AIS Fund Awards IDE-led Project to Accelerate USV Standardization

NATO AIS Fund Awards IDE-led Project to Accelerate USV Standardization

The new effort will map gaps across NATO and non-NATO standards and certification frameworks and propose a path for tighter ...
Munich Security Report 2026 Signals Drones as a European Capability Priority

Munich Security Report 2026 Signals Drones as a European Capability Priority

The Munich Security Report 2026 is direct on three drivers that will shape Europe’s UAS and counter-UAS demand in 2026–2028: ...
Singapore Airshow: Counter-UAS the "Must-Have" Capability

Singapore Airshow: Counter-UAS the “Must-Have” Capability

Singapore Airshow 2026 underlined how quickly counter-drone technologies are becoming mainstream across air forces, homeland security and critical infrastructure operators ...
Michigan’s NADWC Tapped as Key Training Hub for Advanced Military Drone Operations

Michigan’s NADWC Tapped as Key Training Hub for Advanced Military Drone Operations

A new federal designation positions Michigan’s National All-Domain Warfighting Center as a national test and training range for advanced uncrewed ...
ABS Issues Approval in Principle for Saildrone USVs

ABS Issues Approval in Principle for Saildrone USVs

The American Bureau of Shipping has issued Approval in Principle certificates to Saildrone ...
LiquidPiston Evolves the Rotary

LiquidPiston Evolves the Rotary

LiquidPiston, a Bloomfield, Connecticut-based developer of advanced power solutions, has moved closer to fielding its technology ...
Canada's Federal Fleet Services Installs MARSS CUAS System on Combat Support Ship

Canada’s Federal Fleet Services Installs MARSS CUAS System on Combat Support Ship

MARSS and Federal Fleet Services announced the full NiDAR C2 and CUAS will be installed on Asterix, a Combat Support ...
Four Potential Future Tactical VTOL Systems Advance in Quest for Modernization

Four Potential Future Tactical VTOL Systems Advance in Quest for Modernization

A seven-week Base Period concluded May 24 with “agreement option 1” awards to four Project Agreement Holders for the Army's ...
Times Microwave Systems Announces TF-047 Micro-Coaxial Cable

Times Microwave Systems Announces TF-047 Micro-Coaxial Cable

Times Microwave Systems, the preeminent brand in innovative RF and microwave interconnect assemblies, cables, and connectors, introduces its new TF-047 ...
Army Selects Northrop Grumman, Shield AI for Future Tactical UAS Prototype

Army Selects Northrop Grumman, Shield AI for Future Tactical UAS Prototype

Northrop Grumman, teamed with Shield AI, has been chosen by the U.S. Army to participate in the Future Tactical Unmanned ...
Industry Trends Observed at 2023 XPONENTIAL Show

Industry Trends Observed at 2023 XPONENTIAL Show

AUVSI wrapped its 2023 XPONENTIAL convention in Denver last week, bringing together thousands of attendees and hundreds of companies to ...
BRINC Aims Lemur 2 and BRINC Ball at Police, SWAT

BRINC Aims Lemur 2 and BRINC Ball at Police, SWAT

Giving new meaning to the term “blue UAS,” Seattle-based BRINC is highlighting its new Lemur 2 small UAS at AUVSI's ...
Trimble Launches RTX for Drone Package Delivery

Trimble Launches RTX for Drone Package Delivery

Provides Integrators with Hardware and Software as a Service for Unparalleled Accuracy and Performance Trimble announced today the Trimble PX-1 ...
A2Z Drone Delivery Launches RDSX Pelican Commercial Delivery Drone

A2Z Drone Delivery Launches RDSX Pelican Commercial Delivery Drone

A2Z Drone Delivery Inc. has released its new flagship delivery drone, the RDSX Pelican ...
D-Fend Solution’s Software Release Brings New Capability

D-Fend Solution’s Software Release Brings New Capability

A D-Fend Solutions system shown preparing to defend a baseball stadium. Image courtesy of D-Fend Solutions. RA'ANANA, Israel and MCLEAN, ...
Stratom to Showcase Autonomous Pallet Loader at XPONENTIAL

Stratom to Showcase Autonomous Pallet Loader at XPONENTIAL

Stratom plans to display an autonomous pallet loader and showcase a robotic refueler at AUVSI’s XPONENTIAL ...
Zelim Selects Sea Machines SM300 Autonomy for Unmanned Search and Rescue Vessel

Zelim Selects Sea Machines SM300 Autonomy for Unmanned Search and Rescue Vessel

Scottish search and rescue company Zelim has developed the Guardian class of fast rescue craft, controlled by Sea Machines Robotics’ ...
Teledyne’s Thermal by FLIR Expands With US Drone Makers BRINC and Teal

Teledyne’s Thermal by FLIR Expands With US Drone Makers BRINC and Teal

Teledyne FLIR announced continued momentum within its Thermal by FLIR program for SUAS with the integration of its Hadron 640R ...
Red Cat Launches Teal 2 Night-Operations SUAS at AAAA Summit

Red Cat Launches Teal 2 Night-Operations SUAS at AAAA Summit

Red Cat Holdings Inc. officially launched its new military-grade sUAS, the Teal 2, at the 2023 AAAA Army Aviation Missions ...
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