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At AUSA, US-Norwegian startup Heaviside debuted Tyr, a man-portable fixed-wing loitering munition with Nammo warheads, a 150-mph top speed and comms-denied behaviors. It marks the company's jump from drone-detecting RF sensors to a lethal anti-tank weapon.
Read the story →Shield AI says its first full-scale X-BAT tail-sitting jet drone rolls out by the end of October, with $400M now behind the program and a Navy early-capability target of 2029. The engine, nozzle and launch system it depends on still have to be proven.
The Army's UAS program office asked approved DoW Drone OTA Consortium members for off-the-shelf brigade drone whitepapers on Oct. 5 and gave them until 23:59 Central on Oct. 7, the shortest response window of the consortium's three Army calls so far.
The Pentagon has picked four lasers and a microwave weapon for a year-long JIATF-401 pilot on U.S. bases, where service members will run them. The goal is to learn what directed energy really costs to operate before a December shoot-off at Dugway.
Textron Aviation and Merlin revealed the SkyCourier UX, an uncrewed cargo variant of the Cessna SkyCourier built for autonomous short-field delivery in contested military logistics.
Boston startup MagLev Aero landed simultaneous DARPA MVP and Embedded Entrepreneur Initiative awards on Sept. 25 to push its magnetically levitated ducted-fan propulsion toward a TRL-6 flight demo.
Hegseth announced AUTOWARCOM, a four-star combatant command with service-like authorities for drones, AI and autonomy, targeted for Oct. 1, 2027, but Congress must act and the memo leaves structure and leadership open.
Amprius's Pentagon agreement is worth up to $75M, but its SEC filing shows only about $22M obligated so far, and the production line to be converted is run by an unnamed South Korean manufacturer.
Phase 3 of the Drone Dominance Program offers $450M for about 60,000 one-way attack drones, with new price points and a 400-drone production order as the price of entry to Gauntlet III. The listed prices cover at most $300M of the total.
NORTHCOM's fourth Falcon Peak exercise at Yuma Proving Ground ran at least 20 vendors through border-focused counter-drone tests, the first with Anduril's Lattice as the baseline and the test organization hosting it.
Camp Grayling's 148,000-acre range and 60-mile drone corridor are becoming a primary U.S. proving ground for directed-energy counter-UAS systems under the Army's Permissive Range Initiative.
The Marine Corps hand-picked Anduril for a $15.7M sole-source deal to arm its ACVs with Pulsar-L jammers, landing the same week NORTHCOM ran its fourth counter-drone exercise and previewed its first urban test.
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