Engineering & Design

Saronic to Build $3 Billion Port Alpha Shipyard in Brownsville, Texas

Saronic to Build $3 Billion Port Alpha Shipyard in Brownsville, Texas

Saronic has selected Brownsville, Texas as the site for Port Alpha, a next-generation shipyard the company says will help expand ...
U.S. Navy Corsairs Just Conducted Its First Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack Since World War II

U.S. Navy Corsairs Just Conducted Its First Kamikaze Drone Boat Attack Since World War II

Just a over a month after the U.S. Navy used a small unmanned surface vehicle (USV) for the first time ...
Kongsberg Maritime’s Eco-Autonomy Evolution

Kongsberg Maritime’s Eco-Autonomy Evolution

In Norway, chemical company Yara had a problem: its pollution-conscious government told it to stop trucking fertilizer and other cargos ...
New JIATF 401 Handbook Reframes Counter-Drone Defense Around Five First Principles

New JIATF 401 Handbook Reframes Counter-Drone Defense Around Five First Principles

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has published a 90-page handbook intended to give warfighters, federal agencies and local law enforcement ...
19 Companies Out of 49 Contenders Qualify For Drone Dominance Gauntlet 2 Trial

19 Companies Out of 49 Contenders Qualify For Drone Dominance Gauntlet 2 Trial

The Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance Program has taken another step forward. Aimed at identifying and nurturing a championship stable ...
Thales to Acquire Exail in €3.9 Billion Deal

Thales to Acquire Exail in €3.9 Billion Deal

Thales has signed a binding agreement to acquire the Gorgé family's 35.51% stake in French maritime robotics and navigation firm ...
Pentagon Consolidates Unmanned Systems Under New Portfolio Manager

Pentagon Consolidates Unmanned Systems Under New Portfolio Manager

The Department of Defense has established a new Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for unmanned offensive and defensive systems, designated DRPM-UxS, ...
Ondas to Acquire DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 Million, Forming Ondas Sentinel Autonomous Defense Division

Ondas to Acquire DZYNE Technologies for $875.8 Million, Forming Ondas Sentinel Autonomous Defense Division

Deal unites World View's stratospheric sensing with DZYNE's long-endurance ISR, counter-UAS and precision-effects portfolio, and pushes Ondas' 2026 revenue target ...
AeroVironment Locks In $500 Million Domestic Shield IDIQ, Books First $80.5 Million Titan Task Order for Air Force Base Defense

AeroVironment Locks In $500 Million Domestic Shield IDIQ, Books First $80.5 Million Titan Task Order for Air Force Base Defense

Two same-day contract actions tie AV's counter-UAS portfolio directly to the Pentagon's expanding homeland counter-drone posture, with Titan systems already ...
ProximaVision Air Ready™ Brings Tethered Aerial ISR from the Super Bowl to the Tactical Edge

ProximaVision Air Ready™ Brings Tethered Aerial ISR from the Super Bowl to the Tactical Edge

The company built its system for live broadcast reliability. What it is selling to defense users is something different: a ...
At the Perimeter

At the Perimeter

The C-UAS deployment at the 2026 FIFA World Cup was visible, acknowledged—and only part of the picture. Image: Richard Thomas ...
The FIFA World Cup: A Catalyst for C-UAS Investment, But ‘Not the Whole Story’

The FIFA World Cup: A Catalyst for C-UAS Investment, But ‘Not the Whole Story’

Government funding, new legislation and the drone threat moving from the battlefield into our communities are all accelerating growth in ...
Teledyne’s Black Recon Puts a Grown-Up Black Hornet on Armored Vehicles

Teledyne’s Black Recon Puts a Grown-Up Black Hornet on Armored Vehicles

Teledyne FLIR unveiled a new vehicle-borne multi-role UAS called Black Recon at this June’s Eurosatory arms expo—one evolved from its ...
JIATF-401 Partners with FBI to Expand C-UAS Training for Law Enforcement

JIATF-401 Partners with FBI to Expand C-UAS Training for Law Enforcement

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 is embedding instructors at the FBI's National Counter-UAS Training Center to support the Counter-UAS Operator ...
South Korea to Acquire 20,000 Low-Cost Systems and Fast-Track K-Lucas Loitering Munition

South Korea to Acquire 20,000 Low-Cost Systems and Fast-Track K-Lucas Loitering Munition

South Korea's Defense Ministry announced a broad overhaul of its uncrewed warfare strategy on June 26, with Defense Minister Ahn ...