A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department’s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit)

FCC Opens Drone Comment Period as Covered List Takes Shape

The Federal Communications Commission is soliciting public comment on a broad slate of regulatory reforms aimed at accelerating domestic unmanned…

Army Deploys Ukraine-Tested Merops Interceptor at Scale to Counter Iranian Shahed Drones

Army Deploys Ukraine-Tested Merops Interceptor at Scale to Counter Iranian Shahed Drones

The U.S. Army has purchased 13,000 Merops low-cost interceptor drones and begun deploying them to counter Iranian-made Shahed one-way attack ...
U.S. Southern Command Establishes Dedicated Autonomous Warfare Command

U.S. Southern Command Establishes Dedicated Autonomous Warfare Command

U.S. Southern Command has established the SOUTHCOM Autonomous Warfare Command, making it among the first geographic combatant commands to stand ...
Thales, Viasat and Partners Complete BVLOS Connectivity Trials at Cranfield

Thales, Viasat and Partners Complete BVLOS Connectivity Trials at Cranfield

Thales, Viasat, and a consortium of European partners have completed flight trials at Cranfield University testing multi-link connectivity architecture for ...
Army C-UAS Marketplace Reaches $13M in Sales, Opens to State and Local Buyers

Army C-UAS Marketplace Reaches $13M in Sales, Opens to State and Local Buyers

The Pentagon's Counter-UAS Marketplace has generated $13 million in purchases since its launch earlier this year, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ...
Echodyne's EchoShield Radar Selected for Trust Automation's Air Force C-UAS Platform

Echodyne’s EchoShield Radar Selected for Trust Automation’s Air Force C-UAS Platform

Echodyne has been named the primary radar provider for Trust Automation's Small-Unmanned Air Defense System (SUADS) family, which is being ...
Rohde & Schwarz Brings Full ARDRONIS C-UAS Suite to Counter UAS Technology Europe

Rohde & Schwarz Brings Full ARDRONIS C-UAS Suite to Counter UAS Technology Europe

Rohde & Schwarz is demonstrating its complete ARDRONIS counter-UAS suite this week at Counter UAS Technology Europe 2026 in London, ...
Saildrone Unveils Spectre MUSV at Sea-Air-Space, Competes for Navy Marketplace

Saildrone Unveils Spectre MUSV at Sea-Air-Space, Competes for Navy Marketplace

Saildrone unveiled the Spectre at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition in National Harbor, Maryland today — a 52-meter, 250-tonne unmanned surface vessel ...
Danish Startup Sapient Perception Raises €2M for Wide-Area UAV Sensor Platform

Danish Startup Sapient Perception Raises €2M for Wide-Area UAV Sensor Platform

Sapient Perception ApS, a Copenhagen-based developer of AI sensor systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, has raised a €2 million pre-seed ...
Anduril's YFQ-44A Completes First Experimental Testing with Air Force Operators

Anduril’s YFQ-44A Completes First Experimental Testing with Air Force Operators

The U.S. Air Force's Experimental Operations Unit has completed its first hands-on exercise with the YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft at ...
DroneDash and GEODNET Launch GEODASH Aerosystems with Heavy-Lift Agricultural Spraying Drone

DroneDash and GEODNET Launch GEODASH Aerosystems with Heavy-Lift Agricultural Spraying Drone

DroneDash Technologies and GEODNET have formed a joint venture to bring a new class of autonomous agricultural spraying drone to ...
AeroVironment Debuts MAYHEM 10 Launched Effects System at AAAA

AeroVironment Debuts MAYHEM 10 Launched Effects System at AAAA

AeroVironment used the Army Aviation Association of America annual forum in Nashville this week to unveil MAYHEM 10, the first ...
Redwire Receives $20M in Follow-On Orders for Stalker UAS Advanced Navigation Systems

Redwire Receives $20M in Follow-On Orders for Stalker UAS Advanced Navigation Systems

Redwire has received purchase orders totaling more than $20 million from the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft ...
UK Ministry of Defence Orders Skyhammer Interceptors from Cambridge Aerospace

UK Ministry of Defence Orders Skyhammer Interceptors from Cambridge Aerospace

The UK Ministry of Defence has contracted Cambridge Aerospace to supply Skyhammer drone interceptors to the British Armed Forces and ...
Powerus and Digital Force Technologies Partner on Kinetic C-UAS Kill Chain

Powerus and Digital Force Technologies Partner on Kinetic C-UAS Kill Chain

Powerus and Digital Force Technologies have announced a strategic partnership to develop a fully integrated kinetic counter-UAS kill chain targeting ...
EagleNXT Acquires $10M Stake in Israel's ThirdEye Systems, Launches U.S. C-UAS Joint Venture

EagleNXT Acquires $10M Stake in Israel’s ThirdEye Systems, Launches U.S. C-UAS Joint Venture

EagleNXT has acquired a $10 million stake in Israeli counter-UAS firm ThirdEye Systems and established a majority-owned U.S. joint venture ...
FCC Opens Drone Comment Period as Covered List Takes Shape

FCC Opens Drone Comment Period as Covered List Takes Shape

The Federal Communications Commission is soliciting public comment on a broad slate of regulatory reforms aimed at accelerating domestic unmanned ...
Red Cat Partners with Ukraine's State Defense Export Authority

Red Cat Partners with Ukraine’s State Defense Export Authority

Red Cat Holdings has formalized a strategic partnership with Spetstechnoexport, a state-owned enterprise under Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, through a ...
Rebuilding the Supply Chain 

Rebuilding the Supply Chain 

New regulations aim to bring drone component manufacturing onshore, creating short-term supply chain challenges but setting the stage for a ...
NAVAIR Awards Near Earth Autonomy Contract for GPS-Denied Maritime Logistics

NAVAIR Awards Near Earth Autonomy Contract for GPS-Denied Maritime Logistics

The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Pittsburgh-based Near Earth Autonomy a contract to develop an aircraft-agnostic autonomy solution for ...
Army Rewrites Drone Doctrine Force-Wide as "Drone Dominance" Becomes Priority

Army Rewrites Drone Doctrine Force-Wide as “Drone Dominance” Becomes Priority

The U.S. Army is overhauling its operational doctrine across all echelons to incorporate lessons from the accelerating battlefield use of ...
General Cherry Announces U.S. Joint Venture with Wilcox Industries to Produce FPV and Interceptor Drones

General Cherry Announces U.S. Joint Venture with Wilcox Industries to Produce FPV and Interceptor Drones

Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Cherry has announced a strategic joint venture with Wilcox Industries Corp., a Newington, New Hampshire-based defense ...
L3Harris Delivers Submarine-Launched AUV Capability to U.S. Navy Under DIU Contract

L3Harris Delivers Submarine-Launched AUV Capability to U.S. Navy Under DIU Contract

L3Harris Technologies has received an Other Transaction Authority contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to deliver its Torpedo Tube Launch ...
Saronic Raises $1.75B, Expands Louisiana Shipbuilding Footprint as Autonomous Surface Vessel Production Scales

Saronic Raises $1.75B, Expands Louisiana Shipbuilding Footprint as Autonomous Surface Vessel Production Scales

Saronic Technologies has closed a $1.75 billion Series D funding round at a $9.25 billion valuation, with the capital directed ...
Commercial Drone Alliance Calls for Interagency Coordination on Domestic Supply Chain

Commercial Drone Alliance Calls for Interagency Coordination on Domestic Supply Chain

The Commercial Drone Alliance released a white paper this week urging the Administration and Congress to pair the Federal Communications ...
Navy Cancels and Reboots its $2.1 Billion Drone Boat Rapid Procurement Program

Navy Cancels and Reboots its $2.1 Billion Drone Boat Rapid Procurement Program

Just seven months after the Navy debuted its new Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC) program aimed at building low-cost Unmanned ...
AV Unveils LOCUST X3 Laser C-UAS System

AV Unveils LOCUST X3 Laser C-UAS System

Third-generation directed energy platform emphasizes modularity, AI-enabled targeting and low-cost counter-drone engagement. Image: AV AeroVironment (AV) has introduced LOCUST X3, ...
Anduril Begins Production of ‘Fury’ Drones at New Arsenal-1 Factory

Anduril Begins Production of ‘Fury’ Drones at New Arsenal-1 Factory

This year the Air Force will complete evaluations of two rival unmanned jets for Increment 1 of its Collaborative Combat ...
Europe’s UAS and Counter-UAS Reset: NATO Standardization, EU Industrial Policy

Europe’s UAS and Counter-UAS Reset: NATO Standardization, EU Industrial Policy

Europe is moving from episodic counter-UAS buys toward something closer to an architecture: shared standards, testable assurance, common data formats, ...
Regulating Autonomy: Lessons from the Connected Vehicle Rule

Regulating Autonomy: Lessons from the Connected Vehicle Rule

The Commerce Department’s connected vehicle rule offers a practical preview of what comes after the FCC’s drone gate—from subsystem definitions ...
Five Good Questions: Dan Magy, Firestorm Labs

Five Good Questions: Dan Magy, Firestorm Labs

Dan Magy is the CEO of Firestorm Labs, a defense technology company focused on rapidly configurable unmanned systems and forward-deployed ...
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 ...
Regulus Puts a Ring on Rogue UAS

Regulus Puts a Ring on Rogue UAS

C-UAS Ring variants from Regulus Cyber are being deployed in air, ground and sea environments ...
Kea Aerospace Launches Solar-Powered Stratospheric Aircraft

Kea Aerospace Launches Solar-Powered Stratospheric Aircraft

The "Kea Atmos Mk 1" uncrewed aircraft has been designed to be used for stratospheric flight testing. It has a ...
Xwing’s Superpilot Becomes FAA’s First ‘Standard’ UAS Certification Project

Xwing’s Superpilot Becomes FAA’s First ‘Standard’ UAS Certification Project

The autonomous aviation company Xwing has submitted a Project Specific Certification Plan to the FAA, becoming the first Standard Category ...
Event 38 Unmanned Systems Uses E400 Drone to Map Turks and Caicos Islands

Event 38 Unmanned Systems Uses E400 Drone to Map Turks and Caicos Islands

Event 38 Unmanned Systems, which manufactures American-made mapping drones, said its E400 fixed-wing drone was used to collect aerial imagery ...
Cloud Ground Control Enables Remote Monitoring and Control of Unlimited Uncrewed Systems with New Micro-modem

Cloud Ground Control Enables Remote Monitoring and Control of Unlimited Uncrewed Systems with New Micro-modem

CGConnect is transforming robotic vehicles across air, land and sea into a connected autonomous fleet ...
Textron Systems’ Aerosonde Expands to More Ships; VTOL Capability Could Add More

Textron Systems’ Aerosonde Expands to More Ships; VTOL Capability Could Add More

Textron Systems’ Aerosonde unmanned aircraft has seen its use on Navy ships expand over the past year, and its maritime ...
FLARES adds VTOL to Insitu’s Integrator

FLARES adds VTOL to Insitu’s Integrator

Insitu’s Flying Launch and Recovery System (FLARES) octocopter is a VTOL mothership that launches the company’s Integrator fixed-wing vehicle ...
AeroVironment Introduces Switchblade 300 Block 20 Rapidly Deployable Loitering Missile System

AeroVironment Introduces Switchblade 300 Block 20 Rapidly Deployable Loitering Missile System

Building on AeroVironment’s tactical missile legacy, the Switchblade 300 Block 20 offers enhanced operational features and performance ...
SoftBank Develops Lithium-metal Battery Cells Pack, Demos Operation in the Stratosphere

SoftBank Develops Lithium-metal Battery Cells Pack, Demos Operation in the Stratosphere

Japan’s SoftBank Corp. announced it has developed a battery pack using a next-generation lithium-metal battery cell manufactured by Enpower Japan ...
Zipline Unveils New Autonomous System Capable of Quiet, Fast and Precise Home Delivery

Zipline Unveils New Autonomous System Capable of Quiet, Fast and Precise Home Delivery

Zipline on March 15 unveiled its new platform that provides quiet, fast and precise autonomous delivery directly to homes in ...
Topcon Further Expands MC-X Platform with All-New GNSS Option for Compact Equipment

Topcon Further Expands MC-X Platform with All-New GNSS Option for Compact Equipment

LIVERMORE, Calif. – Topcon Positioning Systems has announced the availability of a new global navigation satellite system (GNSS) option for ...
Steadicopter Bridges the Gulf with Black Eagle UAS
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Steadicopter Bridges the Gulf with Black Eagle UAS

Emirates Defense Technology and Steadicopter announced an agreement to adapt the Israeli company’s rotary-wing Black Eagle UAS to meet emerging ...
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