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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Production-Ready UAV Test Assets
W58RGZ24C0021
$3.26B ceiling; $367.4M obligated.
Supports the development and delivery of production-ready test assets for unmanned aerial vehicle programs.
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.
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.
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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