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The Counter-UAS Contract & Procurement Tracker
The counter-drone money flow, compiled and reconciled.
A single sourced record of who is buying counter-drone capability, from whom, for how much, and for which layer of the kill chain. 76 awards across six theatres, the capital and acquisition flows, and a 45-vendor competitive matrix. Every figure resolves to a primary or named source, and the reconciliations are the part an automated feed gets wrong.
What is inside
76 sourced awards across six theatres
US DoD joint and homeland, US-enabled Foreign Military Sales, the United Kingdom, EU and NATO, the eastern flank and Ukraine, and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Turkey. Date, buyer, awardee, value, kill-chain layer, and a source on every line.
The 45-vendor competitive matrix
Every counter-UAS vendor classified by layer, primary mode and flagship system, with the column a buyer actually needs: can a US federal customer procure this directly? Allied and Israeli routes through US subsidiaries are noted; the restricted names are flagged.
The capital and acquisition ledger
Anduril at $61bn, the Motorola acquisition of D-Fend, the CHAOS, Epirus and Mach rounds, and the AeroVironment and BlueHalo consolidation. Where the money behind the vendors is being raised.
The reconciliations a scraper gets wrong
The two separate $500m JIATF-401 IDIQs untangled, Poland’s overlapping figures kept from double-counting, Anduril’s stale valuation corrected, and offensive or ISR items stripped out rather than padded in.
A forward read: what to watch, next six months
The NATO marketplace down-select, the next JIATF-401 task orders, the EU drone wall moving from ambition to award, and where directed energy scales or stalls.
A section from the PDF
Four lines from the United Kingdom theatre, exactly as they appear in Edition 1. Every theatre uses this format, and every line carries its source.
| Date | Buyer / vehicle | Awarded to | Value | Layer | What it is for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2025 | MoD / DE&S (Royal Navy) | MBDA UK (QinetiQ, Leonardo) | GBP 316m | Defeat-DE (laser) | DragonFire Minimum Deployable Capability, Type 45, ship-fit 2027 | DE&S |
| May 2025 | Dstl | QinetiQ (+MBDA, Thales) | GBP 160m | Programme | Weapons Sector Research Framework; anti-drone laser + RF-DEW | Unmanned Airspace |
| Feb 2026 | MoJ / UK Defence Innovation | competition (TBC) | GBP 1.85m | Defeat-RF/kin | Technologies to safely stop drones over prisons/sensitive sites | GOV.UK |
| May 2026 | MoD / RAF | APKWS (BAE integration) | undisclosed | Defeat-kin (air) | APKWS rockets on Typhoon (No.9 Sqn) for C-UAS, ME ops | FlightGlobal |
The full UK section, the five other theatres, the live-tender pipeline, the capital ledger and the 45-vendor matrix are in the tracker.
Built for business development, capture and competitive intelligence.
If you sell into the counter-drone market, this is the map of where the money is going and who is winning it, in one place, sourced. It is compiled and reconciled by Drone Intelligence, not scraped, and it is refreshed each edition as new awards land.
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