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The Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program posted its Gauntlet II leaderboards: Perennial Autonomy won deep strike, Neros won close quarters battle, and roughly 60,000 low-cost drones will be ordered, with per-vendor quantities still unsettled.
Read the story →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.
Iran's IRGC Navy captured a malfunctioning US Navy Anduril Dive-LD underwater drone at the Strait of Hormuz on September 8, hours after CENTCOM sank five IRGC tankers in an escalating maritime confrontation.
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.
An SEC 8-K filed August 31 lays out Mobix Labs' roughly $15 million all-stock acquisition of Vision Aerial, the Bozeman, Montana maker of the NDAA-compliant Vulcan drone family flying for the Navy, L3Harris and the Forest Service.
A CNN investigation details how Army, FBI, DHS and Pentagon teams used electronic warfare to force down a drone that probed White Sands Missile Range for five days, leading to the detention of Chinese nationals in a rented RV.
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.
REGENT Craft's autonomous Squire seaglider logged its first freshwater runs and 13 days of drills at the Navy's Silent Swarm event, carrying external payloads under NSWC Crane and Pentagon R&E oversight.
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.
A federal appeals court ruled the Pentagon's core rationale for blacklisting DJI rests on evidence so redacted no public justification exists, sending the case back for classified review — but DJI stays on the list for now.
The Army is throwing open five proving grounds — four stateside, one in Morocco — to any drone or counter-drone company, promising range access within 30 days and no federal contract required.
The Marine Corps handed Epirus $11 million for its HAVOC high-power microwave system, and JIATF-401's director revealed the Pentagon is hardening 46 priority U.S. installations and nearing an FAA/DHS pact to fast-track counter-drone tech.
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