Pentagon unveils top performers in latest ‘Gauntlet’ for Drone Dominance Program - 乐鱼下载

The Defense Department this week announced the winners of the second “Gauntlet” competition under its Drone Dominance Program, the Pentagon’s signature effort to ramp up the U.S. military’s arsenal of small unmanned aerial systems. [...] Advertisement

The latest Gauntlet included two “mission areas”: deep strike and close quarters battle.

The leaderboard for the deep strike part of the competition was topped by Perennial Autonomy, followed by Hyperscale, Neros, Skycutter and Swarm Defense Technologies. For the close quarters battle element, Neros came in first place followed by ORQA US, XTEND Reality, Vector and ModalAI, according to the program’s website. [...] ### AI

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