Drone Production Demands Of Pentagon's DIU Strain Small U.S. Industry

U.S. marine with drone

U.S. military services are practicing with one-way attack drones.

Credit: U.S. Marine Corps
The first thing you notice about the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance program—an effort to buy hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones in just two years—is the absence of the usual primes. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX—none of the U.S.’ largest aerospace manufacturers is competing...
Garrett Reim

Based in the Seattle area, Garrett covers the space sector and advanced technologies that are shaping the future of aerospace and defense, including space startups, advanced air mobility and artificial intelligence.

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