South Korea's Defense Ministry announced a broad overhaul of its uncrewed warfare strategy on June 26, with Defense Minister ...

Joint Interagency Task Force 401 is embedding instructors at the FBI’s National Counter-UAS Training Center to support the Counter-UAS Operator Course and extend DoD best practices to state, local, ...

Teledyne FLIR unveiled a new vehicle-borne multi-role UAS called Black Recon at this June’s Eurosatory arms expo—one evolved from its ...

On August 27th, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems’ (GA-ASI) uncrewed YFQ-42A rose above a runway at an undisclosed California location, marking… ...

The U.S.’s national defense budget in 2026 may dedicate around $7.5 billion towards counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS), according to one mid-summer estimate. Events of 2025 spell out exactly why.

The U.S. Army has purchased 13,000 Merops low-cost interceptor drones and begun deploying them to counter Iranian-made Shahed one-way attack systems, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told lawmakers during ...

As defense manufacturing confronts global instability a new generation of companies is reshaping the U.S. industrial base with speed, software and decentralized production at its core. Saronic is ...

When Inspired Flight Technologies began manufacturing drones in 2020, they didn’t want to depend on supply chains from adversary countries like China. They instead opted to create systems built in the ...

The U.S. Army has awarded Anduril Industries a new enterprise contract valued at up to $20 billion over 10 years, establishing the company’s AI-driven Lattice software platform as a central technology ...

The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) announced this Wednesday its five preferred companies to manufacture modular warheads for small kamikaze drones it seeks to rapidly integrate into U.S.

Editor’s Note: This analysis was completed prior to the release of Gauntlet Phase I results in March 2026. Skycutter’s fiber-optic Shrike topped the leaderboard with 99.3 points, followed by Neros ...