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Many of the biggest counter-drone awards are ceilings, not orders. The Army has named ten companies for counter-drone contracts with ceilings worth $4.15 billion between them. A Pentagon task force official told DefenseScoop that $50 million had been committed across all ten.
Homeland Security's $1.5 billion counter-drone contract placed its first orders in late September: three task orders to Dedrone Defense worth $6.8 million, federal spending records show.
Some awards buy hardware outright. The Army awarded AeroVironment $464.8 million on 2 September to build LOCUST X3 laser weapons, which both describe as the first production contract for a high-energy laser in American history. The Navy will buy 30 medium uncrewed ships from three builders at an average of $40 million each.
Exports are growing. Raytheon said on 13 October that it had been awarded $729 million to supply parts of the Army's main counter-drone system to the Army, Qatar and Jordan, its first international sales of the KuRFS radar and Coyote interceptor. Kuwait is buying a £370 million counter-drone system from MARSS, the UK Ministry of Defence said on 9 October, subject to three conditions.
Coverage
France Seeks a Builder for Its SMOKERS Explosive Drone Boats
The DGA designed the boat itself and wants about 10 a year in peacetime, with capacity for 50. The tender gives no contract value.
Bell Now Expects an MV-75 Charge of Up to $150 Million
The Army's first MV-75 production order now waits on a 2027 budget Congress has not passed; in July, Textron put the charge at $60M to $110M.
UAE's EDGE Will Arm Morocco's Combat Drones With Glide Bombs
No value, quantity or drone types were published. EDGE will also modify Morocco's drones and their software to carry the weapons.
Unusual Machines Gets $16.9M Order From a Company It Funded
Unusual Machines put $30 million into Powerus in June. The order is about three times Powerus's revenue for the first half of 2026.
Pentagon Plans 25,000 BAE Counter-Drone Rocket Kits a Year
There is no contract or price yet. The seven-year framework waits on Congress, and the Navy's own 2027 request is 1,383 kits.
Raytheon's $729M Counter-Drone Award Adds Qatar and Jordan
Raytheon gave no split between the three buyers, and no matching award appears in the Pentagon's daily contract notices.
Taiwan Fire Agency Tenders NT$361.5M for Search Drones
A three-year framework other agencies can order from, flagged as a national-security buy. Taiwan's fire services shelved their DJI drones after 2020.
France Awards €34M Counter-Drone Framework for Its Prisons
Two winners, four years, offers worth €12.5 million. The prison service counted about 5,000 drone flights or attempts in 2025, up from 868.
Lithuania Gets First Switchblade 600s, Nearly Four Years On
The €45 million order dates from December 2022. The ministry gives no count; launchers, a simulator and maintenance come with the drones.
Pentagon Plans $450M Order for 60,000 Jam-Resistant Drones
Prices are fixed at $3,000 and $5,000 a drone, plus the warhead. Every bidder must fly through jamming, and fibre-optic links are encouraged.
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.
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
Leidos
US defense and government technology contractor providing systems integration, sensing, cyber, and air and missile defense platforms.
United States
Perennial Autonomy
US developer of low-cost interceptor and strike drones, funded by Eric Schmidt and supplying counter-drone systems to Ukraine and the US military.
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
RTX Corporation
RTX is a US aerospace and defense company formed from the 2020 Raytheon–United Technologies merger, run as Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon.
United States
Unusual Machines
US drone manufacturer and components distributor building NDAA-compliant drones and parts to cut American dependence on Chinese supply chains.
United States
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
U.S. Special Operations Command
Tekever
Purchase of Tekever drone systems after validation and acceptance testing; the number, model and…
U.S. Army
L3Harris
Three-year contract from the Army's DEVCOM Aviation & Missile Center to develop a long-range…
Powerus
Unusual Machines
Purchase order from Powerus Corporation for US-made drone components (motors, batteries, cameras and…
U.S. Navy
Boeing
Not-to-exceed IDIQ for system improvements, configuration development, integration, production…
U.S. Army
Raytheon
Counter-drone contracts for components of the LIDS system, built around the KuRFS radar and Coyote…
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