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Autonomous Warfare Market Snapshot: July 2026

Written by GovTribe | Jun 8, 2026 5:43:35 PM

Our parent company, GovExec, recently hosted Autonomous Warfare: The New Rules of Combat Acquisition, a webinar exploring how autonomy is reshaping defense acquisition and operations.

To add to the conversation, we asked GovTribe AI to find notable opportunities, agencies, programs, vendors, and awards across the autonomous warfare ecosystem. Here’s what we found.

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Key awards

General Atomics

Production-Ready UAV Test Assets

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$3.26B ceiling; $367.4M obligated.
Supports the development and delivery of production-ready test assets for unmanned aerial vehicle programs.

General Atomics

DARPA LONGSHOT Autonomous Air-Launched Vehicle

LONGSHOT Phase III

 

$103.4M ceiling; $101.9M obligated.
Advances DARPA's LONGSHOT program, developing an unmanned air-launched vehicle designed to deploy existing air-to-air weapons.

Georgia Tech Applied Research

Swarming Autonomy for Heterogeneous Unmanned Systems

Office of Naval Research

 

$84.7M ceiling.
Expands swarming autonomy capabilities across multiple types of unmanned systems for the Office of Naval Research.

General Atomics

MQ-9 Autonomy and Sensor Modernization

MQ-9 Smart Sensor Payloads

 

Supports MQ-9 sensor and autonomy upgrades, helping bridge today's remotely piloted aircraft capabilities with next-generation autonomous systems.

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