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Defense & Combat
Army Gives Industry Two Days to Pitch Its Brigade Drone, and Only Drone OTA Consortium Members Can Answer
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.
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Defense & Combat
Hegseth Announces Autonomous Warfare Command: A Four-Star Drone Combatant Command Targeted for Oct. 1, 2027
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.
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Defense & Combat
Pentagon Opens Drone Dominance Phase 3: $450M for 60,000 Attack Drones and a 400-Drone Gate
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.
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Defense & Combat
Orqa, KEF Robotics and Blue Arrow Defense Beat GPS Jamming at Army Special Forces' First Drone Team Competition
At Fort McClellan's first Watchtower drone competition, Green Berets tested a jam-resistant navigation and C2 package from Orqa US, KEF Robotics and Blue Arrow Defense — built on Ukraine-tested visual navigation and a scaling US manufacturing base.
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Defense & Combat
Pentagon's Drone Dominance Gauntlet II Names Perennial Autonomy and Neros Top Performers, Setting Up 60,000 Low-Cost Strike Drone Orders
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.
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Defense & Combat
Army Cuts Rafael, Advances Lockheed and Boeing-Anduril to Next Phase of IFPC Increment 2 Interceptor Race
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.
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Defense & Combat
Iran Seizes Disabled Anduril Dive-LD Drone Sub at Strait of Hormuz
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.
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Defense & Combat
Wing-in-Ground-Effect Drone Wraps Navy Trials: REGENT's Squire Seaglider Completes Silent Swarm
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.
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Defense & Combat
US Army Shuts Down 173rd Airborne's Experimental Drone Battalion in Europe
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.
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Defense & Combat
Neros Triples to $2.5B Valuation on FPV Attack-Drone Demand
Neros raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation as it races to scale Archer FPV attack-drone production toward 1 million units a year, backed by a $500M Army IDIQ.
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Defense & Combat
F-Drones' Ukrainian F10 Quadcopter Enters US Service Under Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program
Ukrainian manufacturer F-Drones delivered the first 2,000 F10 FPV strike quadcopters to US forces on July 31, becoming the first Ukrainian drone cleared for export to the US under the Pentagon's $1 billion Drone Dominance Program.
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Defense & Combat
The Pentagon Wants a Drone That Comes Home: $32M for 1,200 Reusable Bombers at $20,000 a Copy
Phase 2.5 "Mission C" of the Drone Dominance Program asks industry for reusable 55-pound bomber drones that survive at least 30 sorties — 150 preferred — at $20,000 apiece, a pointed break from the disposable one-way attack drones the program has bought so far.
