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Industry & Contracts
The Army Has Fielded 40,000 Attack Drones. FAA Data Shows Why It's Short on Pilots
The Army says it has fielded or is fielding 40,000 small attack drones ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline, but FAA registration data shows the hobbyist pipeline it has leaned on for pilots is shrinking fast.
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Policy & Regulation
Cleveland's Police Drone Rules Ban What Ohio's New Statewide Drone Law Still Allows
Ohio's HB 251 sets the state's first statewide warrant rules for police drones, but Cleveland's own policy already bans facial recognition, weapons, and demonstration surveillance that the new state law leaves untouched.
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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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Counter-UAS
Passive-Radar and Threat-Fusion Startups Expand on Both Sides of the Atlantic as Counter-Drone Demand Surges
Australia's Silentium Defence opens a US headquarters in North Carolina while three ex-Altitude Angel executives launch UK startup Wardyn Technologies, both chasing surging counter-drone demand.
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Industry & Contracts
Beam Global Signs LOI to Acquire European Drone Firm, Eyes Vertical Integration
Beam Global has signed a non-binding LOI to acquire a European drone maker whose product already holds a Department of War Conditional Approval, betting its decade of military battery work can turn the deal into domestic drone manufacturing.
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Tech & Builds
DARPA Unveils Lift Challenge 2.0, Doubling the Bar for Heavy-Lift Drones Ahead of a 2028 Rematch
DARPA has confirmed a second Lift Challenge for summer 2028 that doubles the minimum payload to 220 lbs and the course to 10 nautical miles, raising the bar after AVIDrone's 3.84:1 payload-to-weight finish this August.
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Defense & Combat
US and UK Fire Mk 48 Torpedo From an Uncrewed Submarine for the First Time
The Royal Navy's XV Excalibur became the first uncrewed underwater vehicle to fire a US Mk 48 Heavyweight Torpedo, a milestone AUKUS test that sets up the Anduril Dive-XL-based Project CUTLASS.
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Industry & Contracts
Hungary's ABZ Innovation Expands Drone Output as Its FCC 'Covered List' Exemption Hinges on a US Factory
ABZ Innovation tripled its Hungarian drone factory capacity toward 3,500 units a year, but the real story is regulatory: its FCC Covered List exemption now legally depends on the company actually building drones in the United States.
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Defense & Combat
Ukraine Fields New Interceptor Drones as Russia's Jet-Powered Shaheds Outrun Its Missile Stocks
Ukraine unveiled two new anti-Shahed interceptor drones in days, racing to close a gap ISW says leaves Ukrainian forces short on the air-to-air missiles needed to stop Russia's faster, jet-powered Geran variants.
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Counter-UAS
Cape Canaveral Races to Add Counter-Drone Defenses as Launch Tempo Surges
Space Force officials say Cape Canaveral is "top of the list" for new counter-drone gear within weeks, but a GAO report shows the service is short-staffed by 25% just as launch cadence climbs toward 1,000 a year.
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Policy & Regulation
US Sentencing Commission Adopts New Enhancement for Crimes Committed With Drones
The U.S. Sentencing Commission has adopted a guideline adding 4 to 6 offense levels for federal crimes committed using a drone, effective March 15, 2027.
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Tech & Builds
Skoltech's AgenticSwarm Lets Operators Command Drone Fleets in Plain English
A Skoltech paper posted to arXiv introduces AgenticSwarm, an LLM-driven system that turns natural-language orders into coordinated multi-drone missions and replans automatically when a UAV fails or its battery degrades.
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