Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has committed more than $600 million to counter-unmanned aircraft systems capability across three distinct mission…
Engineering & Design
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…
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 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. AeroVironment (AV) has introduced LOCUST X3, a third-generation…
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…
