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Industry & Contracts
Pentagon's Counter-Drone Marketplace Expands as Kaizen's $15M Platform Crosses $21M in Sales
JIATF-401's vetted C-UAS Marketplace, built by startup Kaizen under a $15M contract, has processed $21M in purchases and added the UK and Romania as allied buyers while linking to the Foreign Military Sales Fast Lane.
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Counter-UAS
Washington National Guard Fields Anduril Counter-Drone System Ahead of Super Bowl, World Cup Security Missions
Washington's 10th Civil Support Team has completed training on a mobile Anduril counter-UAS rig that fuses camera, RF and AI sensors — and it's headed for Super Bowl and FIFA World Cup security duty.
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Tech & Builds
Robots Hunting Robots: Anduril and Ultra Maritime Demo Autonomous Counter-UUV Tracking at Navy's Lanternfish 2026
At the U.S. Navy's Lanternfish 2026 exercise, Ultra Maritime's Sea Spear sonar fed Anduril's Seabed Sentry and Lattice software to detect, track and classify enemy UUVs and alert operators with no human in the sensing loop.
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Counter-UAS
The Air Force Starts Building Its Own Base Defense: A Launcher RFI, and 20-Airman Point Defense Flights
A Wright-Patterson RFI for a transportable launcher that kills cruise missiles and Group 1-5 drones lands the same week the Air Force details new 20-Airman Point Defense Flights trained at Fort Sill — backed by $51.8M in FY26 SUADS buys and a $1.4B FY27 ABADS request.
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Commercial & Delivery
Archer's Halo: The Commercial Twin of Anduril's Thunder Bets on Uncrewed Heavy Cargo VTOL
Archer unveiled Halo, an autonomous hybrid-electric cargo VTOL sharing its airframe and powertrain with Anduril's Thunder attack tiltrotor — but with no published payload or range figures, its credibility rests on Anduril's half-billion in FY2026 contracts, not Archer's $2M federal record.
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Industry & Contracts
Defense-Tech VC Blows Past Its Own Records: $14.6B in Five Months, and Drones Are Eating the Check
Venture funding into defense and national-security startups hit $14.6B in the first five months of 2026, already crushing 2025's full-year record of $9.6B, as drone and autonomy megarounds from Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic dominate the flow.
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Defense & Combat
Air Force Awards CCA Production Contracts to Anduril and General Atomics Early
The U.S. Air Force selected General Atomics and Anduril Industries on June 17 to produce the first operational Collaborative Combat Aircraft — the FQ-42A and FQ-44A — targeting more than 150 combat-capable drones by decade's end under a unit cost ceiling near one-third of an F-35A.
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Industry & Contracts
Anduril Industries: The Software Company Rebuilding the Defense Industrial Base
Founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey and four co-founders, Anduril Industries has grown from a border-surveillance startup into a $30.5 billion defense technology company producing autonomous systems across air, sea, and ground domains on its Lattice AI platform.
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Tech & Builds
Multirotor vs. Fixed-Wing vs. Hybrid VTOL: Engineering Tradeoffs for Every Mission
Every drone airframe resolves the same core tension: hover capability costs endurance, endurance costs hover. A physics-first breakdown of how multirotors, fixed-wing platforms, and hybrid VTOLs make that tradeoff — and which missions each class actually wins.
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Defense & Combat
Air-Launched Effects and Drone Motherships: How Stacking Range Reshapes Aerial Warfare
Air-launched effects (ALE) divorce mission risk from platform cost by stacking a mothership's standoff range on top of a drone's own reach — letting aircraft dispense swarms deep inside defended airspace without entering it. From DARPA's Gremlins to China's Jiutian, the concept is going mainstream.
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Tech & Builds
Anduril’s Lattice: The Software Stack Rewriting How the Pentagon Fights
Lattice is Anduril’s AI command-and-control platform fusing sensors, drones, and effectors into a unified operational picture. With over $25 billion in known contract ceilings and a $20B Army enterprise agreement, it’s becoming the connective tissue of U.S. autonomous warfare.
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Defense & Combat
The Undersea Drone Explained: UUV Categories, Programs, and the Race Below
Uncrewed undersea vehicles now patrol the same cables that carry 97% of global communications. From man-portable REMUS scouts to 85-ton Orca XLUUVs, this is how the U.S. Navy classifies, builds, and struggles to field them — and why China is moving faster.
