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Operating across a 7,000-square-mile reservation has shaped the Cherokee Nation’s business portfolio, from medical supply delivery to manufacturing and fabrication ...
Honeywell's Kestrel Brings Resilient Navigation to Group 2 and 3 UAS in Contested Environments

Honeywell’s Kestrel Brings Resilient Navigation to Group 2 and 3 UAS in Contested Environments

Honeywell Aerospace launched Kestrel on June 17, a compact navigation system designed for uncrewed platforms operating where GPS signals are ...
Ondas to Acquire Cyberhawk in $125 Million Critical Infrastructure Push

Ondas to Acquire Cyberhawk in $125 Million Critical Infrastructure Push

Ondas Inc. has agreed to acquire Cyberhawk, a Scotland-based drone inspection and infrastructure intelligence company, in a deal valued at ...
DIU’s RIMES Program Taps Mach and Whisper Aero for Shipboard-Capable Strike UAS Prototype

DIU’s RIMES Program Taps Mach and Whisper Aero for Shipboard-Capable Strike UAS Prototype

The U.S. Navy wants long-range unmanned aircraft that can operate without a runway, a carrier deck or elaborate launch-and-recovery equipment ...
Air Force Goes Split Buy: Fury and Dark Merlin Both Enter CCA Production

Air Force Goes Split Buy: Fury and Dark Merlin Both Enter CCA Production

Following months of flight testing, in 2026 the Air Force was expected to choose between two competing drone combat jets ...
Russia’s Guarantor Jammer Points to a New Tactical Threat to Starlink-Enabled Drones

Russia’s Guarantor Jammer Points to a New Tactical Threat to Starlink-Enabled Drones

Russia is reportedly deploying a truck-mounted satellite jamming system designed to deny Starlink access to Ukrainian drones over a localized ...
Army Expands C-UAS Marketplace at Eurosatory

Army Expands C-UAS Marketplace at Eurosatory

Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll traveled to Paris this week to lead the largest single expansion of the U.S ...
Red Cat Unveils Hellcat sUAS at Eurosatory

Red Cat Unveils Hellcat sUAS at Eurosatory

Red Cat Holdings introduced Hellcat, a dual-use small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS), on June 15 in conjunction with Eurosatory 2026 ...
Inside PEO-TIS: SOCOM’s Tactical Information Systems Office

Inside PEO-TIS: SOCOM’s Tactical Information Systems Office

At SOF Week 2026 in Tampa, the program managers of U.S. Special Operations Command’s Program Executive Office for Tactical Information ...
Senate Panel Would Authorize New Four-Star Command for Autonomous Systems

Senate Panel Would Authorize New Four-Star Command for Autonomous Systems

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s FY2027 defense bill permits the Pentagon to establish a dedicated Robotic and Autonomous Systems Combatant ...
What Russia's Rubicon Drone Units Reveal About the Future of Massed Effects
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What Russia’s Rubicon Drone Units Reveal About the Future of Massed Effects

Since late 2024, elite drone units from Russia’s Rubicon Center for Unmanned Technologies have proven among Russia’s most effective combat ...
Airbus Offers U.S. Marine Corps Autonomous Lakota Variant, Unveils Full UAS Portfolio at ILA Berlin

Airbus Offers U.S. Marine Corps Autonomous Lakota Variant, Unveils Full UAS Portfolio at ILA Berlin

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense is offering the U.S. Marine Corps a fully autonomous variant of the UH-72B Lakota utility ...
Navy's Saronic Corsair USV Conducts First Drone Rescue at Sea in Oman Recovery

Navy’s Saronic Corsair USV Conducts First Drone Rescue at Sea in Oman Recovery

A U.S. Navy Corsair autonomous surface vessel operated by Task Force 59 rescued two U.S. Army aviators from waters off ...
Farsighted: SiLC’s Eyeonic Vista Perimeter Detector

Farsighted: SiLC’s Eyeonic Vista Perimeter Detector

Nefarious actors wield increasingly sophisticated UAS that move quickly, fly low and blend into complex backgrounds and infrastructure. SiLC booth ...
GA-ASI, Air Force Complete F-35/MQ-20 Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming Demonstration Using LEO Data Link

GA-ASI, Air Force Complete F-35/MQ-20 Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming Demonstration Using LEO Data Link

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced May 27 that it completed a crewed-uncrewed teaming flight demonstration pairing an MQ-20 Avenger ...