The Defense Department wants industry's feedback on its $1 billion, four-phase program to buy more than 200,000 small commercial drones by 2027, according to a request for information posted today . The program – titled “Drone Dominance” -- comes both in name and objective from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s July memo to “accelerate growth of the U.S. industrial base to outfit our combat units with cheap and effective U.S.-made" unmanned aerial systems, per the RFI. The program will see $1...
