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After GAO dismissed its protest, Anduril gets a second shot at the hardware track of DHS's $1.5B counter-UAS IDIQ — a move that could make it only the second vendor, with Leidos, to sit on both tracks of the five-year framework.
Read the story →A 20kW-class AeroVironment-derived laser mounted on a GM Defense combat vehicle has knocked down 11 cartel-linked drones in 10 days along the Rio Grande Valley, and NORTHCOM says overall drone activity there has fallen roughly 75% since it started firing.
A Sept. 3 Air Force RFI asks industry for a ground-based, medium-caliber gun firing cheap rounds at subsonic cruise missiles and Group 1-5 drones, the latest sign the service intends to defend its own bases rather than wait on the Army.
A Sept. 4 Air Force solicitation seeks four Echodyne EchoShield counter-drone radars for the 57th Rescue Squadron's HH-60Ws at Aviano, Italy — with an unusual admission built into the paperwork: the money isn't there yet.
Duke University will lead a six-year, $24 million Army-funded effort called ICE-CEM to detect, disrupt and seize control of hostile drones using cyber and radio-frequency techniques rather than kinetic interceptors.
The FBI is asking OMB to approve a revised paperwork requirement for local police running counter-drone operations under the SAFER SKIES Act, with public comment open through November 2.
A CNN investigation details how Army, FBI, DHS and Pentagon teams used electronic warfare to force down a drone that probed White Sands Missile Range for five days, leading to the detention of Chinese nationals in a rented RV.
Backed by a $5 million Army contract, Virginia Tech cut the ribbon on a Counter-UAS Testing and Research Center at Kentland Farm to pit commercial detection and defeat systems against real drone threats.
Kyiv has field-tested four interceptor drone designs against Russia's 600 km/h jet-powered Shaheds as Zelensky demands a 90%-plus intercept rate this autumn, with monthly jet-drone launches up 67% to 2,500.
AFSOC's 31st Air Task Force ran a week-long counter-drone exercise at Hurlburt Field and Nellis AFB, pairing AI-assisted detection with a kinetic 'final denial' live-fire capstone that built on February's Bamboo Eagle groundwork.
The Royal Netherlands Navy has signed a development contract with Swiss/German firm Destinus for the Hornet B2, a canister-launched, AI-guided interceptor drone meant to shoot down swarming attack drones far more cheaply than missiles.
Oregon officials warn that a single unauthorized drone can ground an entire wildfire air fleet, as the U.S. Forest Service logs 67 incursions nationally in 2026 — including 26 in one day over Washington's Spokane Complex fire.
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