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 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
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 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 has acquired a $10 million stake in Israeli counter-UAS firm ThirdEye Systems and established a majority-owned U.S. joint venture…
JIATF-401 Expands NCR Counter-UAS Layered Defense with Bumblebee Training
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and Joint Task Force-National Capital Region conducted a counter-UAS training exercise at Fort Belvoir, Virginia,…
ZenaTech Plans Ukraine Facility for Counter-UAS Testing and Validation
ZenaTech (Nasdaq: ZENA) has announced plans to establish a dedicated drone testing and operational validation facility in Ukraine, adding to…
UAV Navigation–Grupo Oesía Autopilot Performs in US Special Forces Maritime Exercises
UAV Navigation–Grupo Oesía’s autonomous control system successfully guided an unmanned surface vehicle during recent US Special Forces maritime exercises held…
ePropelled Expands Hercules Starter Generator Line for Multi-Domain Hybrid Missions
ePropelled has announced a significant 2026 expansion of its Hercules starter generator product line, extending the platform’s reach across uncrewed…
BAE Systems Completes First APKWS Live-Fire Trial from Eurofighter Typhoon
BAE Systems has successfully test-fired the AGR-20A Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) from a Eurofighter Typhoon, completing the first…
DoD Task Force Commits $600M to C-UAS as Iran and World Cup Drive Dual Demand
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has committed more than $600 million to counter-unmanned aircraft systems capability across three distinct mission…
General Cherry and Orqa Sign Agreement to Bring Ukrainian Interceptor Drones to NATO
Ukrainian drone manufacturer General Cherry and Croatian UAV producer Orqa have signed a memorandum of cooperation to jointly develop and…
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 Holdings has formalized a strategic partnership with Spetstechnoexport, a state-owned enterprise under Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, through a…
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
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
The U.S. Army is overhauling its operational doctrine across all echelons to incorporate lessons from the accelerating battlefield use of…
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
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 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 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
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 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
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 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 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
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 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 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 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
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
The U.S. Air Force's Experimental Operations Unit has completed its first hands-on exercise with the YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft at ...
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Onshoring Autonomy
U.S. Defense Priorities Aim to Rehouse and Scale UAS Production ...
XPONENTIAL Europe 2026 to Spotlight Security, Defense and Dual-Use Autonomous Systems
The upcoming XPONENTIAL Europe conference and trade fair will place security, defense and dual-use autonomous technologies at the center of ...
SEA-KIT International Reports First USV Export Deal
SEA-KIT International announced its first uncrewed surface vessel export sale to Connecticut-based ThayerMahan, which provides autonomous maritime systems to government, ...
EMCORE Introduces New TAC-450 IMUs Integrated with PIC Technology, Tactical-grade Gyros, and Inertial-grade Accelerometers
EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace & defense, communications, and sensing markets, announced ...
Search and Rescue Technology Set for Commercialization with £2.M Investment
Zelim, an Edinburgh-based start-up pioneering unmanned search and rescue systems, including the world's first remotely operated rescue vessel, has secured ...
Northrop Grumman Unveils B-21 Raider, Intended for Manned-Unmanned Teaming
Northrop Grumman held a ceremony in Palmdale, California, to unveil the B-21 Raider, a stealth bomber intended to be augmented ...
UAvionix Awarded FAA Contract to Demo C-Band Frequency Assignment Manager for Multiple UAS
UAvionix has won a contract from the Federal Aviation Administration for multiple end-to-end demonstrations of a Frequency Assignment Manager ...
Amazon Announces Smaller, Quieter, More Capable Delivery Drone
Delivery giant Amazon has announced a new delivery drone, one it says is smaller, lighter and quieter than the model ...
Riegl Adds VUX-160-23 to a Formidable Scanner Lineup
My-Linh Truong shows off the new Riegl VUX-160-23 at InterGEO 2022. The recently announced VUX-160-23 is a lightweight LiDAR module ...
Autonomy, Collaboration Take Center Stage at Dimensions+ Conference
Trimble kicked off its first Dimensions+ conference in four years by rolling out new cloud-based automation and collaboration platforms ...
Skyfire Teams with Textron Systems to Improve Public Safety
A screen shot of a SeeGEO showing a post-fire investigation. Credit: Skyfire Skyfire, a public safety unmanned aircraft consulting company ...
Latvia’s 5G Defense Testbed Receives New Networks from Nokia, Ericsson
Nokia and Ericsson have added their 5G networks to Europe’s first 5G defense testbed, in Latvia, making it possible to ...
VOTIX Software Allows AviSight to Achieve FAA Approval for BVLOS Drone Inspections
VOTIX announced Nov. 1 that its software platform has been selected by AviSight for inspections at Shell USA Inc. facilities ...
SkySafe Announces Cloud-Based Counter UAS System
SkySafe announced Nov. 1 that its cloud-based counter-drone technology is now detecting drone flights in Canada under a partnership with ...
TOPODRONE Advances Airborne Bathymetric Surveying with AQUAMAPPER Launch at INTERGEO 2022
TOPODRONE, a Swiss based designer and manufacturer of high-precision LiDAR equipment for installation on drones, vehicles and backpacks, launches AQUAMAPPER, ...
GEOCUE Adds Third Camera to LiDAR Scanner
A GeoCue 655/660 unit (below the drone) offers three cameras including a nadir camera. Photo by Neesa Sweet. Surveyors and ...
Amprius Puts Silicon to Work
Ronnie Tao, vice-president business development for Fremont, California-based Amprius Technologies, is enthusiastic about his company nearly doubling the energy density ...
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