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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon's new Autonomous Warfare Command on September 30. The four-star headquarters would buy and field drones, robots, and artificial intelligence across the military. Congress must approve it; the target stand-up date is October 1, 2027.
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Managing Blue UAS certification
The Pentagon spent $398 million on small drones in 2022. Four years later, as Ukraine demonstrated that $400 drones could destroy $10 million tanks, Congress authorized $1.7 billion—a fourfold increase. Now the Department of Defense has launched its most ambitious small-drone initiative ever: a $1.1 billion program to field more than 300,000 one-way attack drones by 2028, with the first 30,000 expected by mid-2026.
Updated May 26
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