"An executive order unveiled by the White House in late July aims to "unleash" the U.S. drone industry. The initiative includes billions in federal investments to accelerate the deployment of unmanned systems across defense, homeland security, and critical infrastructure. As the order makes clear, drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are no longer a nascent sector; they are now platforms of power."
"Just days earlier, a report from DroneLife confirmed what many in the industry had only heard anecdotally: a new generation of drone tech companies are finally leveraging procurement reform to apply directly for contracts, bypassing slow-moving, traditionally bureaucratic processes. The Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)-the outfit tasked with fast-tracking commercial technology into the military-leads this charge. Many of the recent requests for proposals (RFPs) from the DIU and other agencies are designed to accelerate this shift, allowing new vendors to onboard more quickly."
An executive order unveiled by the White House in late July directs billions in federal investment to accelerate deployment of unmanned systems across defense, homeland security, and critical infrastructure. Drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles have become strategic platforms. Procurement reform and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) efforts allow commercial drone tech companies to apply directly for contracts and bypass traditional bureaucratic processes. Recent RFPs are designed to onboard vendors faster and enable short trial projects to prove field viability. New vendors such as Elsight and D-Fend Solutions focus on enabling technologies and rapid integrations; Elsight installed its Halo platform into an Indago 4 quadcopter enabling a secure "beyond visual line-of-sight" (BVLOS) mission.
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