DIU picks six drone startups to break Pentagon's operator bottleneck
Defense Innovation Unit selected Tesseract Ventures, Quantum Systems, and four others to demonstrate containerized autonomous drone platforms that operate with two people instead of one-per-drone.
Pentagon awards Perennial Autonomy $500M counter-drone contract
JIATF-401 awards Perennial Autonomy a $500M three-year contract for three drone interceptor platforms, marking the largest C-UAS procurement and a shift from million-dollar missiles to sub-$20K attritable systems.