
Pentagon Opens $450M Attack-Drone Round With A 400-Drone 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.
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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.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr touts $5 billion in new US drone investment. The agency's own footnotes mix funding rounds, a valuation and five-year pledges.

The FCC's drone ban now reaches inside the airframe. From October 13, no new US-built drone can be authorized with a DJI-made logic-bearing part.

ABZ Innovation opened a €7M drone factory in Hungary and says US production starts next year. Its FCC exemption for the L50 sprayer rides on that plan.

I sat down with revenue operations specialist Amy Wiegand to talk through the drone market squeeze, the Part 108 question mark, and the decisions drone service providers should be making today.

The White House list for its Drone Dominance event names 40 entries. All three Trump-family drone firms made it. Ten of eleven Gauntlet I winners did not.

Infinite Electronics VP Gabriel Guglielmi on NDAA parts, anti-jamming antennas, and why counter-drone demand now outpaces drones, from Commercial UAV Expo 2026.

Aviv Shapira signed XTEND's JFB closing during a DroneXL interview. XTND trades on the NYSE Friday, Gauntlet II unscored. 'I think we did good,' he says.
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