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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.
Read the story →The Navy's Office of Naval Research awarded Epirus $11 million on August 10, 2026 to mature its vehicle-mounted HAVOC high-power microwave weapon for Marine Corps air-defense units racing to counter swarming drones.
The Marine Corps has awarded Epirus roughly $11 million for HAVOC, an autonomy-enabled evolution of the ExDECS high-power microwave prototype — a sled-mounted swarm-killer built to fight alongside MADIS, with the company already able to build about one system per week.
The Office of Naval Research's new 2026 S&T Strategy, 'FEED at Speed,' leans on AI to compress research timelines and targets the technology-transition 'Valley of Death' — with unmanned systems like the MDUSV Seahawk held up as the model capability.
The US Marine Corps has selected Allen Control Systems' Bullfrog M240 — an AI-driven turret that auto-aims a belt-fed machine gun at drones — for its air-defense mission on the L-MADIS vehicle, promising kills as cheap as $10.
From Air Force officers flying MQ-9 Reapers to Army 15Ws at Fort Huachuca to squad-level FPV familiarization, a look at how the U.S. military actually trains drone operators, and how South Korea and Ukraine compare.
A side-by-side comparison of the five ways drones are actually defeated today — kinetic interceptors, RF/GPS jamming, high-power microwave, directed-energy lasers, and net-capture systems — with range, cost per engagement, tradeoffs, and who's legally allowed to use each under SAFER SKIES.
A July 2 MARADMIN creates the Marine Corps Robotics Integration Group at Twentynine Palms to standardize Group 1/2 drone and counter-drone training service-wide, backed by an active hunt for team chiefs, SNCOs, intel officers and EW specialists.
A memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth creates a new joint office with milestone authority over nearly all Pentagon drone programs, pulling buying power away from the individual armed services.
Elroy Air will list on Nasdaq as ELRY via a merger with Columbus Circle Capital Corp II, valuing the hybrid-electric Chaparral cargo drone maker at roughly $1 billion.
The Naval Research Laboratory demonstrated a dual-use laser that wirelessly beams power to a forward base, switches to shoot down a drone in near-whiteout snow, then resumes power delivery without restarting — a field test built to gather real atmospheric-degradation data.
Israel's UVision Air builds the HERO loitering munition family in five variants — from a 3 kg squad-portable round to a 125 kg strategic weapon — all sharing a common operator interface. The Hero-120 was selected for the U.S. Marine Corps' OPF-M program in 2021 and has since drawn SOCOM, NATO, and U.S. Army interest.
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