US EditionPentagon taps 25 firms for small, cheap attack drone competition
The Pentagon plans to buy over 200,000 low-cost attack drones by 2027 with $150 million prototype orders after testing by military operators.
- The Pentagon announced 25 small technology and drone companies that will compete to quickly field thousands of low-cost one-way attack drones for the military.
- The evaluation for the first phase, dubbed the Gauntlet, will start on February 18 at Fort Benning, Georgia, and the department will place about $150 million in orders for prototype drones.
- The Pentagon expects to spend $1.1 billion on the program over its four phases and wants to have warfighters be the ones evaluating how well potential drones work.
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The Pentagon's Gauntlet will put 25 attack drone makers to the test, including some from Ukraine
The first phase of the program invites 25 companies to test their drones with US military operators.US Army photo by Capt. Shenicquia FultonThe first phase of the Pentagon's small, one-way attack drone program involves 25 vendors.The companies will test their systems with US personnel later this month before DoD decides which ones to buy.Ukrainian companies were among those selected to compete in the Gauntlet evaluation.Over two dozen companies,…
War Department Announces Vendors Invited To Compete In Phase I Of The Drone Dominance Program - Armed Forces Press
Image by АрміяInform The Pentagon released the following today: February 3rd, 2026 When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took office a year ago, matching new technologies to threats was one of his core priorities. He commissioned an acquisition strategy to swiftly outfit our combat units with lethal drones. The War Department today announced the 25 vendors invited to compete in Phase I of the Drone Dominance Program (DDP), an acquisition reform eff…
Pentagon Invites 25 Vendors to Compete to Build Up Arsenal of One-Way Attack Drones
The Pentagon has extended invitations to 25 different drone makers to compete in the first phase of its program to find and field cheap one-way attack drones. One-way attack drones have become a common feature on modern battlefields. Ukrainian forces, for instance, have employed these relatively cheap explosive-laden drones to great effect, targeting more expensive Russian military equipment and slowing Russia’s advance across the country. Now, …
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soldiersystems.netWar Department Announces Vendors Invited To Compete In Phase I Of The Drone Dominance Program
Department of War – Press Release, February 3rd, 2026 When Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took office a year ago, matching new technologies to threats was one of his core priorities.
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Pentagon taps 25 firms for small, cheap attack drone competition
The Pentagon on Tuesday announced 25 small technology and drone companies that will compete for a chance to quickly field thousands of low-cost one-way attack drones for the military.Kratos SRE Inc., a subsidiary of Kratos Defense, and Halo Aeronautics are among the more than two dozen vendors taking part in the first phase of the Defense Department’s Drone Dominance Program, the department said in a statement.“Drone dominance is a process race …
Pentagon names 25 vendors to compete for $150M in delivery orders during first phase of its Drone Dominance Program, 'the Gauntlet'
The Pentagon named 25 vendors Tuesday to compete in the first phase of the department’s “Drone Dominance Program,” a list that includes known and relatively unknown companies in the unmanned aerial systems industry. The evaluation, which officials are calling “the Gauntlet,” will begin on Feb. 18 at Fort Benning in Georgia, according to a press release. Military drone operators will fly and evaluate vendor equipment into early March, when the De…
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