The biggest contract announcement to emerge from SOF Week 2026 came not from one of the traditional defense primes but…
Policy & Regulatory
Poland, Australia, and South Korea Join Pentagon’s JIATF-401 Counter-Drone Marketplace
Three additional nations have signed on to the Pentagon’s counter-drone procurement marketplace, the Army announced this week, expanding the initiative…
NATO Launches Layered C-UAS Experimentation Campaign, First Field Event Tests Integration
Allied Command Transformation has moved its Layered Counter-UAS Initiative — known as LCI-X — from framework into field experimentation, completing…
The Autonomy Stack: Establishing a ‘Software First’ Mindset
The need for more adaptable solutions and the U.S. Air Force’s new Autonomy Government Reference Architecture, or A-GRA, are driving…
The FCC’s New Role at the Center of the U.S. Drone Market
A supply chain security framework that began with a sweeping December 2025 prohibition on foreign-produced UAS is now generating its…
NYPD Stands Up Permanent Counter-Drone Unit Under Safer Skies Act
The New York City Police Department has stood up a permanent counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) unit with authority to electronically…
Drone Dominance Program Qualifies 48 Companies For Gauntlet 2 Trials
The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) has issued a dramatically expanded list of participants for its second competitive Drone Dominance…
Northrop Grumman Named Preferred Payload Provider for Drone Dominance Program
On the opening day of SOF Week, the Pentagon announced the five winners of its Drone Dominance Program Lethality Prize…
Unmanned, Autonomy, and Counter-UAS on the Tampa Agenda: What to Watch at SOF Week 2026
Live demonstrations along the Riverwalk, an expanded outdoor program, and a session track built around autonomy and interoperability put unmanned…
DZYNE Unveils Blitz Hand-Launch UAS With 93-Mile Strike Range
While America’s drone industry has fixated on first-person view quadcopters like those swarming Ukrainian battlefields, DZYNE Technologies is bucking the…
SOF Week 2026 Returns to Tampa as Acquisition Speed Becomes the Industry Test
USSOCOM’s annual gathering convenes May 18–21 at the Tampa Convention Center, with a program built around the affordable-mass, attritable-systems, and…
Anatomy of an American Autonomy System on a Chip
How Hyfix’s H1 brings the autonomy stack into a single architecture—making autonomous systems more trusted, more scalable, and better suited…
JIATF-401 Selects Five Installations for Directed-Energy C-UAS Pilot
Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has selected five military installations to host a directed-energy counter-UAS pilot program authorized under the…
Army Expands Company-Level SUAS Portfolio with Three Additional Systems
The U.S. Army has selected three additional vendor solutions for its company-level Small Unmanned Aircraft System portfolio, expanding the program…
Counter-UAS: The Price of the Shot
How Western militaries are trying to restore a sustainable cost-exchange ratio against cheap drones The announcement out of BAE Systems’…
Ukraine Building Drone Industry Under Fire
Four years of war have produced one of the most dynamic defense technology ecosystems in the world. Now Ukraine is…
FAA Releases Section 2209 NPRM, Two-Tier Framework for Drone Restrictions Around Critical Infrastructure
The Federal Aviation Administration on May 6 published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would, nearly a decade after Congress…
