The Pentagon's counter-drone task force bought Vanquish Prime radars from CHAOS Industries for U.S. forces in CENTCOM. The contract tops $6.9 million. Quantities and delivery dates were not disclosed.
Lockheed Martin led Fortem's $50 million Series B to expand DroneHunter production in Utah and tie Fortem's radars and interceptors into its Sanctum counter-drone software. The Army's new counter-drone IDIQ does not name Fortem.
The Army's $4.15 billion Domestic Shield counter-drone vehicle fits the small drone over a U.S. base. Only $50 million is funded, and its one Ukraine-tested interceptor flies at about half the speed of Russia's Geran-4.
Kaizen Laboratories controls the software layer that shapes which counter-drone systems U.S. troops and allies see, compare and move toward purchase.
The loitering-munition maker's entry into JIATF-401's Domestic Shield program turns a record quarter into a foothold in homeland counter-drone defense.
A southern-border test validated CACI's net-and-jam system for the entire US military, the latest move in a counter-drone scramble shaped by the drone war in Ukraine and by hostile drones now killing American troops.
The Pentagon's central counter-drone body is funding repeat buys, and a small specialist is scaling into a procurement line the drone war built.