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…

L3Harris Opens High-Volume VAMPIRE Production Line in Huntsville

L3Harris Opens High-Volume VAMPIRE Production Line in Huntsville

L3Harris Technologies has initiated high-volume production of its VAMPIRE counter-unmanned systems at a new dedicated facility in Huntsville, Alabama, marking ...
AeroVironment Demonstrates LOCUST Laser Weapon System Aboard Aircraft Carrier

AeroVironment Demonstrates LOCUST Laser Weapon System Aboard Aircraft Carrier

AeroVironment has announced that its palletized LOCUST Laser Weapon System successfully tracked, engaged, and neutralized multiple target drones during a ...
Marines Complete Shipboard Testing of TRV-150C Cargo UAS

Marines Complete Shipboard Testing of TRV-150C Cargo UAS

The Marine Corps has completed dynamic interface testing of the TRV-150C tactical resupply unmanned aircraft system aboard an amphibious transport ...
Leonardo DRS Integrates Maritime C-UAS Package onto Autonomous Surface Vessel

Leonardo DRS Integrates Maritime C-UAS Package onto Autonomous Surface Vessel

Leonardo DRS has integrated its Maritime Mission Equipment Package onto a Sea Machines STORMRUNNER autonomous unmanned surface vessel, extending counter-drone ...
Lockheed Martin Demonstrates JAGM Vertical-Launch C-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates JAGM Vertical-Launch C-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin is advancing the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile as a ground- and maritime-based counter-UAS effector, with a vertical-launch configuration designed ...
Army Awards AeroVironment $14.6 Million for VAPOR CLE Under Company-Level Reconnaissance Program

Army Awards AeroVironment $14.6 Million for VAPOR CLE Under Company-Level Reconnaissance Program

AeroVironment has been awarded a $14.6 million production contract by the U.S. Army for the VAPOR Compact Long Endurance unmanned ...
Lockheed Martin Invests $25 Million in Fortem Technologies to Scale Counter-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin Invests $25 Million in Fortem Technologies to Scale Counter-UAS Capability

Lockheed Martin has made a $25 million investment in Fortem Technologies, the initial tranche of Fortem's Series B round, to ...
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 ...
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 ...
GA-ASI and U.S. Air Force Demonstrate Passive IR-Based Autonomy for Collaborative Combat Aircraft

GA-ASI and U.S. Air Force Demonstrate Passive IR-Based Autonomy for Collaborative Combat Aircraft

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Air Force recently conducted a flight demonstration focused on autonomous sensing ...
Beyond the Gauntlet: Drone Dominance and the Lessons of Ukraine's FPV War

Beyond the Gauntlet: Drone Dominance and the Lessons of Ukraine’s FPV War

Editor's Note: This analysis was completed prior to the release of Gauntlet Phase I results in March 2026. Skycutter's fiber-optic ...
AV Acquires Empirical Systems Aerospace to Expand UAS Engineering and Manufacturing Capacity

AV Acquires Empirical Systems Aerospace to Expand UAS Engineering and Manufacturing Capacity

AeroVironment (AV) has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. (ESAero), a California-based aerospace engineering firm specializing in unmanned aircraft systems and ...
U.S. Army Enterprise Contract with Anduril Positions Lattice as Core Platform for C-UAS Operations

U.S. Army Enterprise Contract with Anduril Positions Lattice as Core Platform for C-UAS Operations

The U.S. Army has awarded Anduril Industries a new enterprise contract valued at up to $20 billion over 10 years, establishing the company’s ...
BMT Granted Patent for Sparrow Autonomous Drone Delivery Device

BMT Granted Patent for Sparrow Autonomous Drone Delivery Device

BMT announced it has been granted a patent by the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office for a novel concept called ...
BRINC Announces Release of Next-Generation LEMUR 2 Drone

BRINC Announces Release of Next-Generation LEMUR 2 Drone

A BRINC LEMUR 2 with its White Light Floodlight deployed. Photo courtesy of BRINC. SEATTLE—BRINC, an American developer and manufacturer ...
Flyability, Mirion Technologies Announce Collaboration to Support Nuclear Operators

Flyability, Mirion Technologies Announce Collaboration to Support Nuclear Operators

Flyability is collaborating with Mirion Technologies Inc., a provider of radiation detection, measurement, analysis and monitoring solutions, to integrate the ...
FlightOps OS Enables Longest Medical Equipment Drone Delivery in Israeli History

FlightOps OS Enables Longest Medical Equipment Drone Delivery in Israeli History

An autonomous drone, controlled by FlightOps' multi-drone operating system, recently performed Israel's longest autonomous medical equipment delivery via air ...
LidarSwiss Announces Fully Automated LSAP Technology at Geo Week

LidarSwiss Announces Fully Automated LSAP Technology at Geo Week

DENVER, Colorado – On Tuesday, February 14, 2023, LidarSwiss Solutions GmbH, a Switzerland-based provider of high-performance LiDAR system solutions, announced ...
Next-Gen Mapping Hardware and Software coming from GeoCue

Next-Gen Mapping Hardware and Software coming from GeoCue

Denver, CO- From the floor of Geo Week 2023, LiDAR mapping hardware & software company GeoCue announced new products for ...
ALTIUS-600 Achieves UK Milestone in ALE Test with Leonardo

ALTIUS-600 Achieves UK Milestone in ALE Test with Leonardo

Anduril Industries and Leonardo UK completed live trials of new technologies which will underpin the development of air launched effects ...
Topcon Expands Compact Solutions Portfolio with 2D-MC Automatic Grade Control Solution

Topcon Expands Compact Solutions Portfolio with 2D-MC Automatic Grade Control Solution

2D-MC is an automatic grade control solution for compact track loaders ...
The Army Orders Dronuts: Cleo Robotics’ Dronut Prepares to Deploy
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The Army Orders Dronuts: Cleo Robotics’ Dronut Prepares to Deploy

Looking like a flying lug nut, Dronut’s X1 is being used by multiple Fortune 500 companies for commercial inspection of ...
Autel Robotics Announces EVO Max 4T Drone, Mesh Network at CES 2023
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Autel Robotics Announces EVO Max 4T Drone, Mesh Network at CES 2023

Autel Robotics announced a new enterprise drone, the EVO Max 4T, at CES, along with a new mesh networking system, ...
NVIDIA Improves AI Robotics Simulation Tool Isaac Sim

NVIDIA Improves AI Robotics Simulation Tool Isaac Sim

NVIDIA announced major updates to Isaac Sim, its robotics simulation tool that allows users to build and test virtual robots ...
New ADAS GNSS Simulator from M3 Systems
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New ADAS GNSS Simulator from M3 Systems

French engineering firm M3 Systems has developed a new tool for GNSS and multi-path simulation. The test bench is particularly ...
XAG Drone Supports Panama Farmers’ Shift to Cost-Saving Sustainability

XAG Drone Supports Panama Farmers’ Shift to Cost-Saving Sustainability

XAG has introduced its P100 Agricultural Drone to farmers in the country of Panama, providing an accessible approach to more ...
NASA Taps Advanced Aircraft Co. to Develop Tilt-Wing UAS

NASA Taps Advanced Aircraft Co. to Develop Tilt-Wing UAS

Advanced Aircraft Co. announced NASA awarded it a contract to design and build tilt-wing prototype uncrewed aerial vehicles to agency ...
Skydio’s “Dock Day”: Integration to Build On
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Skydio’s “Dock Day”: Integration to Build On

Skydio’s recent “Dock Day” made a case for its fully autonomous and remotely operated drone system being the next step ...
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