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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pentagon’s Counter-Drone Task Force Expands Its Online Marketplace
The Pentagon is widening access to its counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) marketplace, an online catalogue meant to let the military, ...
Hidden Level Wins $100 Million OTA to Scale Passive Sensing for Counter-Drone Mission
The Department of Defense has awarded Hidden Level a $100 million Other Transaction Authority contract to field the company's passive ...
Skyeton to Build First U.S. Manufacturing Plant in N.C., Joining Ukrainian Drone Makers Onshoring Production
Skyeton, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Ukrainian long-endurance UAS manufacturer Skyeton Holdings, will open its first flagship U.S. manufacturing facility ...
BAE Bets on Sovereignty, Unveils Brontanax Loyal Wingman to British Military in Search of ‘Storm Fighter’
BAE Systems unveiled a Loyal Wingman drone fighter called Brontanax at the UK’s Farnborough airshow: a prototype the company’s FalconWorks ...
FCC Extends Trusted-Drone Exemptions, Opens Path to Broader Import Bans
On July 21, the FCC's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau extended two existing Covered List exemptions, made a third ...
Drone Dominance Program Launches New ‘Gauntlet’ Mission C Competition for Heavy Gravity-Bomber Drones
The Pentagon’s multi-phase Drone Dominance Gauntlet competition seeking to stimulate development and mass production of low-cost first-person view (FPV) kamikaze ...
The Asymmetric Edge: Emil Michael Lays Out DoD’s AI Architecture at SOF Week
The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering described a three-layer approach to embedding AI into warfighting — and ...
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 ...
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
The Pentagon’s $1.1 billion Drone Dominance Program has taken another step forward. Aimed at identifying and nurturing a championship stable ...
