Army will start using 'Amazon-like' website to help acquire small UAS

By Dan Schere / August 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Starting this fall, the Army will begin to roll out a new website it will use to classify and purchase unmanned aerial systems, leaders from the service's Program Executive Office for Aviation said Thursday. The Army is billing the approach as a “centralized, ‘Amazon-like’ storefront, filtering trusted solutions by cost and performance,” that is meant to bypass the traditional Pentagon acquisition cycle. The Army and the Defense Department at large have placed an increased emphasis on streamlining its unmanned system...

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