Acting Secretary Hung Cao announced the significant fleet integration this week.

She previously helped co-found the Defense Department's Tradewinds Marketplace for commercial AI and data products.

The nation’s counter-drone task force “will not accept a slow-moving bureaucracy when faced with a fast-moving threat,” a spokesperson said.

Both West and Metz will report directly to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a source told DefenseScoop.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled AutoWarCom during his “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.

Senior military officials did not specify how Joint Task Force-Southern Border directly connects drones to such operations.

Tightening security on the southern border has been a top Defense Department priority since the start of the second Trump administration.

Anduril’s autonomous command-and-control software platform Lattice brings something new to this series of demonstrations.

The department now plans to purchase a total of about 60,000 drones from those UAS vendors.

“Frankly that decision to move the battalion back into an infantry one was made a long time before, you know, really I was in the seat," LaNeve…