Defense Contracts
Defense Contracts
DoD contracts, SBIR awards, and procurement deals.
Coverage
Navy Orders 30 Medium Drone Ships at About $40M Each
The Navy published an average price, not a total. Saronic, HII and Galliano Marine build ten each, with the first due by September 2027.
Taiwan Coast Guard Reopens NT$783 Million Drone Tender
The first round was voided in August. The 18 drones were meant to reach Taiping Island in the Spratlys by March; bids now close 9 November.
Kuwait Is the Buyer Behind EOS's £370M Counter-Drone Deal
Britain named the customer. EOS's own filing says work cannot start until it posts a £74m bank guarantee and wins export licences.
Tekever Raises $580m a Week After Winning UK Army Drone Deal
The Army deal came by direct award after none of eight bids was suitable. Investigators are still finishing a report on an AR5 crash.
DroneShield's $500m counter-drone deal is one of ten
The Army set $4.15 billion of counter-drone ceilings across ten firms on 28 September. About $50 million has been committed to them so far.
Dedrone wins first orders on DHS counter-drone contract
TSA and FEMA spent $6.8 million in the last three days of the fiscal year. One order buys a system built on rival Motorola's D-Fend.
Army Picks Vulcan Elements for SkyFoundry Drone Magnets
The Army's own drone line wants fully American magnets. The supplier it chose is still building its plant, on a $620M Pentagon loan.
Pentagon Invites 17 Firms to Test $20,000 Bomber Drones
Four build drones for Ukraine or belong to Ukrainian groups. Each drone must drop 8 kg of munitions and come back for at least 30 missions.
Greece Buys €26M of Rafael Drone Dome With Achilles Shield
The counter-drone systems sit in a side deal to Greece's €3 billion air-defence package, and Israel has not said which sites they will guard.
Pentagon Accepts 12,080 of 30,000 Drone Dominance Drones
Six weeks after the delivery window closed, the programme's own leaderboard shows 12,080 drones accepted, and Gauntlet I winner Skycutter with none.
Wildfire and Gamera Compete to Replace Air Force's Reaper
The Air Force lost 45 Reapers over Iran and wants a $10 million replacement. General Atomics and Swarm Aero revealed their candidates five days apart.
Canada Orders First Marketplace Drones, Signs Ukraine Deal
Six Canadian firms won up to C$50 million through a Brave1-style marketplace as Carney and Zelenskyy agreed joint drone production. Ukraine gets 30%.
Counter-UAS Contracts Reach $53B in First Eight Months
Publicly announced counter-drone contracts passed $53 billion by September 2026. One ten-year Anduril award accounts for $20 billion of it.
Army's first laser production contract goes to AeroVironment
The Army awarded AeroVironment $464.8 million on 2 September for LOCUST X3 laser weapons, the first US production contract for a high-energy laser.
Motorola buys D-Fend weeks after DHS opens $1.5B contract
Motorola closed a $1.5B counter-drone acquisition on August 20, three weeks after DHS opened a contract worth the same amount to twelve companies.
A trade association is the fast route onto the Blue UAS list
WISPR got Green UAS certification in February and was on the Pentagon's Blue UAS Cleared List ten weeks later. Four platforms joined in 2026.
Army orders $51M more Switchblades as rivals enter LASSO
AeroVironment took a $51M Switchblade order on August 26. In the same seven months the Army let a rival into LASSO and the Marines picked Anduril.
Hidden Level Lands $100M OTA for Passive Counter-UAS Sensing
Hidden Level's $100M OTA creates a route to scale passive counter-UAS sensing across Department of War customers—but it is not guaranteed revenue.
Rotron SkyLance Loitering Munition Passes First Tests
Rotron Aerospace completes demonstration tests of SkyLance, a low-cost long-range loitering munition, days after Ondas bought the British firm.
Anduril's Barracuda-500M Deal Sets 3,000 Missiles, No Price
The May agreement sets minimums, not a value. A low-cost cruise missile flew at White Sands in August; the Army did not say whose.
Companies
Anduril Industries
US defense technology company building autonomous weapons, counter-UAS, and AI command software, and manufacturing them at its own Arsenal-1 plant in Ohio.
United States
AeroVironment
US manufacturer of small tactical UAS, loitering munitions and counter-UAS systems, transformed in scale by its 2025 acquisition of BlueHalo.
United States
Shield AI
US defense technology company building autonomous flight software and the V-BAT and X-BAT uncrewed aircraft for military customers.
United States
General Atomics
Privately held US defense contractor whose GA-ASI division builds the Predator and Reaper families of large military uncrewed aircraft.
United States
Leidos
US defense and government technology contractor providing systems integration, sensing, cyber, and air and missile defense platforms.
United States
Red Cat Holdings
US defense drone company supplying NDAA-compliant small unmanned systems for military reconnaissance through its Teal Drones subsidiary.
United States
Axon Enterprise
US public-safety technology company selling TASER devices, body cameras and evidence software, now a big counter-drone and DFR vendor via Dedrone.
United States
Baykar
Turkish defense company behind the Bayraktar TB2, the most widely exported armed drone of the past decade, now also the owner of Italy's Piaggio Aerospace.
Turkey
Funding
Series D
UC Investments, Baillie Gifford, Merlyn Advisors, Crescent Cove, Ventura Capital, Iberis Capital
TekeverSeries C
Sequoia Capital, American Strategic Technology Fund, Interlagos, Valor Equity Partners, Allen & Company, Thiel Capital, Spark Capital, Dylan Field
Neros TechnologiesSeries B
DTCP, British Business Bank, NATO Innovation Fund, Rheinmetall, Inocea Group, HICO, Thesiger Capital Group, BOKA Capital, Supernova Invest, Hakluyt Capital
Kraken Technology GroupContracts
Government of Kuwait
MARSS
Nation-wide counter-drone system built around MARSS's NiDAR command-and-control software, with…
U.S. Navy
Northrop Grumman
Delivery order to retrofit fielded MQ-4C Triton drones with 17 engineering changes for the Navy and…
U.S. Coast Guard
Shield AI
Order 70Z02326F93130011 to add sensors to current and future V-BAT operations, running to 30…
Transportation Security Administration
Dedrone Defense
Split award for fixed and portable counter-drone capability built on a D-Fend EnforceAir2 system…
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Dedrone Defense
Survey, installation, integration, testing and support of a counter-drone sensor suite, task order…
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