Policy & Regulatory

Redwire Receives $20M in Follow-On Orders for Stalker UAS Advanced Navigation Systems

Redwire Receives $20M in Follow-On Orders for Stalker UAS Advanced Navigation Systems

Redwire has received purchase orders totaling more than $20 million from the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft ...
JIATF-401 Expands NCR Counter-UAS Layered Defense with Bumblebee Training

JIATF-401 Expands NCR Counter-UAS Layered Defense with Bumblebee Training

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and Joint Task Force-National Capital Region conducted a counter-UAS training exercise at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, ...
DoD Task Force Commits $600M to C-UAS as Iran and World Cup Drive Dual Demand

DoD Task Force Commits $600M to C-UAS as Iran and World Cup Drive Dual Demand

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 has committed more than $600 million to counter-unmanned aircraft systems capability across three distinct mission ...
General Cherry and Orqa Sign Agreement to Bring Ukrainian Interceptor Drones to NATO

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

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 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 

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 ...
Army Rewrites Drone Doctrine Force-Wide as "Drone Dominance" Becomes Priority

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

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 ...
Saronic Raises $1.75B, Expands Louisiana Shipbuilding Footprint as Autonomous Surface Vessel Production Scales

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 ...
Navy Cancels and Reboots its $2.1 Billion Drone Boat Rapid Procurement Program

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

AV Unveils LOCUST X3 Laser C-UAS System

Third-generation directed energy platform emphasizes modularity, AI-enabled targeting and low-cost counter-drone engagement. Image: AV AeroVironment (AV) has introduced LOCUST X3, ...
Anduril Begins Production of ‘Fury’ Drones at New Arsenal-1 Factory

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’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

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 ...