Pentagon Plans Order for 60K More Drones as Drone Dominance Competition Expands

The Defense Department (DOD) plans to order 60,000 additional drones in September as it expands its Drone Dominance Program (DDP), a $1.1 billion effort to rapidly field low-cost, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled unmanned aircraft across the military. Under the Trump administration, the DOD was rebranded as the War Department. The announcement comes as qualifiers for Gauntlet II concluded this week at Camp Grayling, Mich.