– Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems Inc., Roseville, California, is awarded a $34,856,449 modification (P00013) to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N0042123C0010). This modification increases the contract ceiling to provide continued non-recurring engineering in support for the XQ-58A Unmanned Aerial Systems mission systems and subsystems integration for the Marine Corps. Additionally, this modification provides for flight […]

Florida-based Unusual Machines, Inc., a drone and drone components manufacturer, announced on November 27th that Donald Trump Jr., an investor in the Company, has joined the Company’s advisory board. “Don Jr. joining our board of advisors provides us unique expertise we need as we bring drone component manufacturing back to America,” said Allan Evans, Unusual […]

The Finnish defense and security technology group Summa Defence Ltd is establishing a drone production facility in Finland in collaboration with its Ukrainian partners. The purpose of the facility is to rapidly increase production capacity for drones used in combat in Ukraine, while also introducing industrial-scale drone production in Finland and Europe. Widescale drone production […]

Latvian defence tech startup Origin has secured €4.5 million from the European Defence Fund (EDF) to develop a man-portable ISTAR drone (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance) with target laser designation capability. This collaborative project, involving partners from Lithuania (Aktyvus Photonics UAB) and Germany (Leosys Laser and Electro-Optic Systems GmbH), is supported by the European […]

–  Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has announced that it has been selected by Red Cat Holdings, Inc., to provide thermal imaging and Artificial Intelligence (AI) embedded software for its Black Widow small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS). Red Cat was selected as the winner of the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Program of Record after an […]

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umierov announced that the the Swedish government will finance the production of Ukrainian long-range drones as part of military assistance. Thus, the country will join the ‘Danish model’ of supporting Ukraine’s defense capabilities. According to Rustem Umierov, he agreed on this with his counterpart, Defense Minister Paul Johnson, […]