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Neros says Gauntlet II brought a 14,000-drone order worth over $100 million, plus 800 Gauntlet I drones taken from rivals that missed their deadline.
The Pentagon's Drone Dominance Program opened Phase 3 with $450 million for 60,000 attack drones, but its listed unit prices cover at most $300 million.
Neros is the only company on both Gauntlet II leaderboards, Perennial Autonomy wins deep strike, and March champion Skycutter drops to fourth.
Luke Maximo Bell's build log for MTech's second-place DARPA Lift Challenge run shows heat, not battery capacity, ended the team's 4:1 attempt in Dayton.
DARPA brings the Lift Challenge back in summer 2028 with the minimum payload doubled to 220 pounds and the course doubled to 10 nautical miles.
DJI Enterprise's World Heritage 3D contest runs to October 10. It suggests national parks as subjects. In the US, those are the illegal ones.
DJI's All For Passion Challenge pays up to $10,000 for Avata 360 sports videos through September 30. The drone's US story makes it complicated.
DJI names 15 winners in its Enterprise Drone Onboard AI Challenge 2026, from a Colombian banana farm crop counter to closed-loop traffic inspection in China.
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