Industry & Contracts
Drone industry news from UASFeed — procurement awards, defense primes and startups, funding rounds, and the business of uncrewed systems.
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Industry & Contracts
Wing Hires Its Way to Scale: Ex-Navy X-47B Engineer and a Google Pixel Hardware VP Take C-Level Roles as Alphabet's Drone Arm Claims the Largest US Delivery Network
Wing's two new C-level hires, a Navy carrier-autonomy veteran and a former Google Pixel hardware chief, plus an FAA Houston plan sized for 30,000 flights a day, show Alphabet's drone unit gearing up to build and fly aircraft at consumer-electronics volumes.
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Saab Rushes Giraffe 1X Radars to the RAF as UK Counter-Drone Demand Surges
Saab UK delivered Giraffe 1X counter-drone radars to the RAF on September 2, 2026 under an urgent operational requirement, its second UK-linked Giraffe 1X order this year after a £24 million NSATU-funded buy for Ukraine.
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Mobix Labs' $15M All-Stock Deal for Montana Drone Maker Vision Aerial Detailed in New SEC Filing
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.
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Industry & Contracts
GoPro Sells 90% of Itself to Optics Firm Starman in $285M Deal, Pivots to Defense and AI Infrastructure
GoPro is selling roughly 90% of the company to privately held Starman Optical for $285 million, abandoning its consumer-camera identity to chase AI data-center optics and defense contracts.
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Finland Arms Every Garrison With FPV Drones in €14M Deal With Insta Group
Tampere-based Insta Group signed a €14M multi-year deal to supply domestically built FPV attack/recon drones to the Finnish Defence Forces, with training rolling out to every garrison nationwide.
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Industry & Contracts
Army Awards $99.5M IDIQ for Man-Portable Dragonfly Counter-Drone RF-Hunting System
Research Innovations Inc. beat 94 other bidders for a $99.5M Army contract to field its 3.5-pound Dragonfly payload, which finds and geolocates hostile drones by their radio emissions in under five seconds with no cloud connection.
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Industry & Contracts
Griffon Aerospace's $133 Million Sole-Bid Win to Keep Feeding Army Drone Target Practice
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.
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Industry & Contracts
Patria Teams With Ukraine's General Cherry to Build Combat-Tested Drones in Finland
Finnish defense manufacturer Patria signed a letter of intent with Ukraine's General Cherry to co-develop and produce battle-proven FPV-strike and interceptor drones in Finland, with Janes reporting the Bullet and Air Speed UAVs among the models planned for local manufacture.
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Industry & Contracts
Helsing Taps Rakuten as First Civilian Broker to Sell HX-2 Strike Drones to Japan
German defense-AI firm Helsing has enlisted Rakuten as its authorized Japan broker for the HX-2 strike drone, making the e-commerce giant the first civilian company certified under Tokyo's reformed arms-procurement rules while JGSDF field trials run through September 2026.
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Industry & Contracts
Ondas Posts Record $83.8M Quarter as Defense-Tech Backlog Hits $757M
Ondas Holdings posted record Q2 2026 revenue of $83.8 million and a $757 million pro forma backlog, raised full-year guidance, and still watched its stock drop 7-8% on valuation jitters.
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Industry & Contracts
Army Opens Five Test Ranges to Private Drone and Counter-Drone Makers
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.
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Industry & Contracts
Archer Aviation to Acquire Boeing's Insitu, Wisk Aero and SkyGrid in All-Stock Deal
Archer Aviation signed an all-stock deal to acquire Boeing's Insitu, Wisk Aero and SkyGrid units, handing Boeing a roughly 19.75% stake as the eVTOL maker absorbs decades of military UAS and autonomy technology.
