Pentagon Inks $500 Million Deal with Perennial Autonomy for Counter-Drone Tech

Pentagon awards $500 million contract to Perennial Autonomy for counter-drone systems

The Pentagon’s counter-drone task force announced a $500 million contract award Monday to Perennial Autonomy, a defense company known for developing an interceptor that has downed thousands of Russian one-way attack drones over the last two years in Ukraine. The Iran war, which has seen the same Tehran-variant drone known as the Shahed wreak havoc across the region, has also hastened the U.S. military’s push to down them. Under the three-year in…

Pentagon inks $500 million deal with Perennial Autonomy for counter-drone tech

The Pentagon awarded Perennial Autonomy, a California-based startup making headlines for its counter-drone technology, a $500 million contract to accelerate its procurement of the defensive systems.According to Monday’s press release, the decision to award the contract was made by the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or JIATF-401, a Defense Department organization charged with researching, testing, and procuring counter-drone technology. Perenn…

Perennial Autonomy Lands $500M JIATF 401 Counter-UAS Deal

Perennial Autonomy has secured a $500M counter-drone contract from JIATF 401 Contract will expand deployment of low-cost drone interceptors for warfighters AI-enabled drone interceptors will support layered battlefield air defense Perennial Autonomy has received a potential $500 million contract from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 to provide support for enterprisewide counter-unmanned aerial system, or C-UAS, operations.

Perennial Autonomy Nabs $500 Million DoD Counter-Drone Contract

The Pentagon’s Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF)-401 has awarded Perennial Autonomy a three-year contract with a $500 million ceiling to acquire three of the company’s drone interceptors, a deal that […]