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Commercial Drone Alliance Calls for Interagency Coordination on Domestic Supply Chain
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (430+ words) Commercial Drone Alliance Calls for Interagency Coordination on Domestic Supply Chain'Inside Unmanned Systems The Commercial Drone Alliance released a white paper this week urging the Administration and Congress to pair the Federal Communications Commission's recent ban on foreign drones and…...
Europe’s UAS and Counter-UAS Reset: NATO Standardization, EU Industrial Policy
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (1249+ words) Europe's unmanned systems market is being pushed out of its comfort zone. For much of the past decade, drones and counter-drone systems in Europe were procured in bursts: airport incidents, high-profile political events, or specific border crises would generate urgent…...
Pentagon Deploys Merops Drone Interceptor System to Counter Iranian Shahed Threat
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (1202+ words) Originally developed and combat tested for Ukraine through an initiative led by a former Google executive, Merops systems'including what reports describe as a "large quantity of interceptors'have been sent to the region as the United States and its partners respond…...
NATO Brings Industry to Brussels for C-UAS Week, Ramps Up Counter-Drone Efforts
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (511+ words) NATO is putting counter-drone technology and industry partnerships at the center of its capability agenda, hosting a dedicated Counter-Uncrewed Autonomous Systems (C-UAS) Week at Alliance headquarters in Brussels. On January 28, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte joined an Industry Day during…...
2025 Proved the Case for Drone Defense
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1678+ words) The U.S.s national defense budget in 2026 may dedicate around $7.5 billion towards counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS), according to one mid-summer estimate. Events of 2025 spell out exactly why." In the Middle East, the U.S. military spent billions of dollars of munitions shooting down…...
Poland Plans €2bn Anti-Drone ‘Eastern Shield’ on NATO’s Front Line
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (370+ words) Some of the most aggressive systems are intended only for wartime use, Tomczyk noted, pointing out that the use of multi-barrel machine guns in peacetime raises obvious safety concerns: rounds fired into the air must come down somewhere. That tension…...
FCC Moves to Block New Foreign-Made Drone Approvals
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (226+ words) Previously authorized drone models remain usable and can continue to be sold, but new models would be unable to obtain FCC equipment authorization required for U.S. import and sale." The Federal Communications Commission has updated its "Covered List" to include unmanned…...
In First Attack By UUV, Ukraine’s ‘Sub Sea Baby’ Drone Blasted Russian Black Sea Kilo Submarine
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (578+ words) This Monday morning, Ukraine's SBU security service announced it had carried out an attack with a "Sub Sea Baby" unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) that damaged a Russian Improved Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine with land-attack capability. A video from Novorossiysk shows…...
FEMA Launches $500 Million C-UAS Grant Program for State and Local Drone Defense
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (618+ words) Just days earlier, the Department of Homeland Security quietly released the first Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for a new $500 million Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Grant Program, an early attempt to translate that kind of rhetoric into funded requirements for…...
Army Secretary Signals Demand for UAS and C-UAS Tech
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1179+ words) Army Secretary Dan Driscoll used a Sunday appearance on CBS'Face the Nationto lay out, in unusually concrete terms, how the service is thinking about drones, counter-UAS, and the unmanned industrial base'and how it expects U.S. industry to respond. Speaking with host…...