Counter-Drone News
Latest Counter-Drone news and analysis — 54 articles tagged Counter-Drone on The Robotics Media.
- Boeing-Anduril Advance To Phase 2 Of Army's IFPC Mid-Range Interceptor Race — — The US Army has picked Boeing-Anduril and Lockheed-AeroVironment for Phase 2 of the IFPC Increment 2 Second Interceptor competition, cutting Rafael.
- Anduril Sweeps DHS' $1.5B Counter-UAS Framework After Track 1 Protest Win — — DHS added Anduril to Track 1 of its $1.5B Counter-UAS IDIQ, giving the defense-tech firm access to both halves of the framework alongside only BAE Sys...
- AeroVironment Books First-Ever US Laser Weapon Production Deal With $464.8M LOCUST X3 Award — — The Army's Enduring-High Energy Laser program moves LOCUST X3 from prototype to sustained production, tapping AeroVironment for dozens of 30 kW counte...
- AeroVironment Books First International LOCUST Laser Order For $50M+ — — A landmark direct commercial sale — AeroVironment's first foreign purchase order for its LOCUST laser weapon system — arrives days after the US Army's...
- Textron Wins $85M In Navy Task Orders For Aerosonde ISR Drones In The Pacific — — Textron Systems has landed two Navy task orders worth up to about $85M to fly Aerosonde Mk. 4.7 VTOL drones as contractor-owned ISR services supportin...
- UFORCE Nears $5B Valuation In $500M Round Led By Valor Equity Partners — — London-based UFORCE is in advanced talks to raise about $500 million at a roughly $5 billion valuation in a round led by Antonio Gracias' Valor Equity...
- Virtuix To Demo AI Counter-Drone Trainer To US Army At Maneuver Warfighter Conference — — Virtuix (Nasdaq: VTIX) will demo its AI-enabled Counter-UAS Personnel Trainer, built on Omni One with LeadTech, to US Army and Joint leaders at the Ma...
- Airbility Raises ₩6.5B To Turn Cheap Interceptor Drones Into A Counter-UAS Business — — Seoul defense startup Airbility bags $4.7M Series A led by Sazze Partners to ship low-cost air-to-air interceptors to Middle East, Southeast Asia and...
- DHS Awards $1.5B In Counter-Drone Contracts To Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT — — The Department of Homeland Security has split a $1.5 billion counter-UAS indefinite delivery contract between 14 vendors led by Anduril, Booz Allen an...
- U.S. Army Awards Heaviside Industries $99M For MOTH Drone-Detection Sensor — — The U.S. Army has awarded Marina del Rey defense startup Heaviside Industries a five-year contract worth up to $99 million to field the MOTH handheld...
- AeroVironment To Build UAS And Counter-Drone Plant In Greece Via AV Eagle JV — — AeroVironment will manufacture unmanned aircraft, loitering munitions and counter-UAS systems in Greece through AV Eagle, a majority-owned joint ventu...
- DHS Awards $1.5B Counter-Drone Deal to Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT and Others — — The Department of Homeland Security has split up to $1.5 billion in counter-UAS work across 14 vendors including Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT, Fortem, D-...
- DHS Splits $1.5B Counter-Drone IDIQ Across 12 Firms For 5 Years — — DHS has awarded a five-year, $1.5 billion counter-drone IDIQ to 12 companies, ending years of fractured procurement across Secret Service, CBP and the...
- Pentagon Task Force To Field Counter-Drone Defenses At Top 46 U.S. Sites — — JIATF-401 director David Bagnati says the Pentagon has begun procurement to add counter-UAS defenses at the top 46 U.S. installations on a global prio...
- Marines Fly VXE30 Stalker As FPV Drone Truck For Neros Archer Strikes — — Advanced Infantry Training Battalion Marines just flew a VXE30 Stalker as a mothership for Neros Technologies' Archer FPV drone in a live-fire test at...
- Marines Buy 10 V2X Tempest Counter-UAS Trucks In $19.06M Pentagon Award — — The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered 10 V2X Tempest mobile counter-UAS vehicles under a $19.06 million Pentagon contract, adding another kinetic layer to...
- Neros Technologies Raises $250M Series C at $2.5B Valuation to Scale Archer AI, Bandit Interceptors — — The Torrance-based defense drone maker will use the round, co-led by Sequoia Capital and the Pentagon-backed American Strategic Technology Fund, to pu...
- Marine Corps Moves To Sole-Source Anduril Pulsar-L Counter-Drone Kits For ACVs — — The U.S. Marine Corps published a Notice of Intent to sole-source Anduril's Pulsar-L electronic warfare jammer to arm Amphibious Combat Vehicles again...
- AeroVironment Locks In $117M Army Order For 82 P550 Reconnaissance Drones — — AeroVironment has been awarded a $117.3M US Army production contract for 82 P550 eVTOL uncrewed aircraft under the service's Long Range Reconnaissance...
- DHS Fires The Starting Gun On $1.5B Counter-Drone IDIQ, Awards 12 Firms — — The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a five-year, $1.5 billion counter-UAS IDIQ split between 12 vendors, with Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT, L...