Pentagon taps hobbyists to assemble 300,000 cheap drones in a $54B arsenal plan
The Pentagon has launched an 18-month Drone Dominance contest to spur private firms and hobbyists to design mass-producible, inexpensive drones—potentially 300,000 units—with about $1.1 billion in contracts as it seeks to rebuild the U.S. drone arsenal after lessons from Ukraine and Iran.