The United States Army Is Ramping Up For Drone Dominance

The United States Army is getting serious about scaling up their drone hardware and software. And it might just be the beginning of a new paradigm in defense tech.

‍What’s happening:‍

• The United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has published a new memo titled Army Transformation and Acquisition Reform to implement major changes to the United States Army
  

Why it matters:‍

• The new memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly states that the United States Army intends to commit billions of dollars to electromagnetic warfare, artificial intelligence technology and drone hardware
  

Going deeper:‍

• The United States Army will begin to replace manned helicopters and armoured vehicles with drones to leverage leading edge autonomous hardware for combat purposes
  
• The United States Army will also begin to scale up their purchases of counter drone systems and electronic warfare systems to be able to defend against hostile drone attacks on the battlefield
  
• The new transition plan outlined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is part of a large scale $36B USD plan to modernize the weapons ant technology available to the United States Army
  

The intrigue:‍

• Counter drone systems have also been making waves in the public markets lately, with Ondas Holdings (NASDAQ: ONDS) just recently landing a new $3.4M USD deal with a European defense contractor for their Iron Drone Raider counter drone system

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