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Echodyne Lands $490M Air Force Counter-Drone Deal As Ukraine's Cheap Acoustics Spawn North American Rivals

Summary by DroneXL.co
The radar that can spot a quadcopter the size of a dinner plate at five kilometers is now wired into a $490 million U.S. Air Force counter-drone program. Echodyne, the Kirkland, Washington company behind the laptop-sized EchoShield radar, confirmed in April that its hardware sits at the center of Trust Automation‘s Small-Unmanned Air Defense System, the platform built to deliver on a contract that runs through August 2030. That deal is the expen…
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DroneXL.co broke the news on Thursday, June 4, 2026.
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