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DroneShield says DroneSentry-X Mk2 reached initial operational capability on U.S. Army Infantry Squad Vehicles about 80 days after a JIATF-401 award, with three more units planned. Contract value, first-batch size and performance specifications were not disclosed.
Read the story →AeroVironment posted 6% revenue growth in fiscal Q1 2027 and guided to $2.125-2.225 billion for the full year, days after a $464.8 million Army laser-weapon contract and a record fiscal 2026 backlog.
The Army has narrowed its IFPC Increment 2 interceptor competition to Lockheed Martin and a Boeing-Anduril team, dropping Rafael's US arm as the program moves toward a competitive demonstration to fill the air-defense gap below Patriot and THAAD.
The Army's TITAN ground-station program has left prototyping for full production, with Anduril taking a $65M hardware slice to build eight new mobile intelligence nodes alongside Palantir's software lead.
Six months after launch, the Army's UAS Marketplace has moved past $750 million in sales and is expanding from small Group 1/2 drones to systems weighing up to 1,320 pounds, with the UK and other allies exploring access.
AeroVironment's LOCUST directed-energy counter-drone laser scored its first international sale, worth more than $50 million, barely a week after the US Army handed the company its first-ever production contract for a high-energy laser weapon.
Duke University will lead a six-year, $24 million Army-funded effort called ICE-CEM to detect, disrupt and seize control of hostile drones using cyber and radio-frequency techniques rather than kinetic interceptors.
Backed by a $5 million Army contract, Virginia Tech cut the ribbon on a Counter-UAS Testing and Research Center at Kentland Farm to pit commercial detection and defeat systems against real drone threats.
US Army Green Berets put Polish special forces through a new Ukraine-inspired drone infiltration exercise in Bavaria — the first time any NATO ally besides the US has run the drill, with plans to scale it across the alliance.
Griffon Aerospace won a $132,978,776 sole-bid Army IDIQ to keep building Outlaw aerial target drones that simulate enemy aircraft and missiles for air-defense training.
Less than a year after standing up a 600-soldier drone battalion modeled on Ukraine's tactics, the Army is dissolving it and sending the 173rd Airborne back to core infantry duty.
The Army awarded Elroy Air a $46 million Phase III SBIR contract to add GPS-denied navigation, encrypted comms and expeditionary planning tools to its runway-independent Chaparral cargo drone.
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