The 30-Year-Old Procurement Law Behind the Pentagon’s Marketplace Push
A Palantir protest over the Defense Intelligence Agency’s ASTRA solicitation highlights the continuing role of a 1994 federal procurement law ...
Small Drones, Big Problems: Inside JIATF 401’s New First-Principles Handbook for Countering Drones
A new 90-page handbook from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 gives warfighters, federal agencies, and local law enforcement a shared framework ...
Beyond the Checkbox: What NDAA Compliance Actually Proves
Phoenix LiDAR Systems President Rob Dannenberg’s experience with Blue UAS verification shows why a statutory claim, a vetted product and ...
FCC Widens Drone Crackdown: Exemptions Extended, New Import Ban Proposed
The FCC extended key Covered List exemptions to 2028, revoked a drone maker's authorizations for the first time over false ...
The Pentagon’s New Drone Czar: How DRPM-UxS Pushes for Robotics Combatant Command
A memo signed June 29 gives one office authority over nearly all U.S. military drone and counter-drone programs—arriving three weeks ...
Uber and Zipline Partner to Scale Drone Delivery Across the U.S.
Uber Eats will begin offering drone delivery through a new partnership with Zipline, with the companies targeting one million drone ...
Powerus Opens UAE Facility to Build Guardian Interceptors Locally
Florida-based Powerus has stood up a UAE factory building its low-cost Guardian interceptor as Gulf states face sustained Iranian drone ...
Component Shortages Slow FPV Deliveries From Drone Dominance Gauntlet 1 Winners
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program wanted the eleven companies that made the leaderboard of its Gauntlet 1 competition concluded in ...
Trump Imposes Tariffs Up to 100% on Foreign-Made Drones, Targeting Chinese Supply Chains
New Section 232 tariffs of up to 100% target Chinese-made drones and components, with reduced rates for allies. Image: Air ...
Northrop Grumman Unveils Raid Hunter, a 50mm Gun-Based Air Defense System for Layered Counter-UAS Protection
Northrop Grumman on Aug. 11 formally introduced Raid Hunter, the production name for its 50mm Gun-Based Air Defense (GBAD) system, ...
Army Selects Five Vendors Following Platoon-Level SRR Drone Fly-Off
Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics will move into manufacturing-readiness assessments as the Army looks to refresh short-range ...
Archer Aviation to Acquire Boeing’s Wisk, SkyGrid and Insitu in Autonomy and Defense Deal
Boeing and Archer Aviation announced August 10 that they have signed definitive agreements for Archer to acquire three Boeing subsidiaries: ...
SwissDrones and Xplorate Bring Long-Range Uncrewed Helicopter Inspection to the U.S.
SwissDrones Operating AG and its subsidiary Xplorate Pacific Pty Ltd are expanding their combined aircraft-to-intelligence platform into the United States, ...
DHS Awards $1.5 Billion Counter-UAS Contract to 12 Companies
The five-year IDIQ splits hardware and services into two tracks, giving Secret Service, CBP, the Coast Guard and other components ...
Robinson Unmanned Advances to Gauntlet II Under Drone Dominance Program
Robinson Unmanned, competing under the Ascent AeroSystems brand, has been selected to participate in Gauntlet II of the Pentagon's Drone ...
