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USAspending
The week to 20 September 2026
Eight entries reached Uncrewed systems in the seven days to 20 September 2026, from six sources. The largest group was contract awards, at two. Eight companies were named, seven of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried six, two fewer.
Contract award
2Product launch
2Textron Aviation media center
SwarmOther
AIN
Merger or acquisition
1Ondas HoldingsUncrewed systems
Merger or acquisition
Ondas Holdings newsroom
Facility expansion
1Lockheed Martin Expands Production of Vectis Drone Prototypes
Facility expansion
AIN
News item
2Shield AIUncrewed systems
A New Tempo for Defense Software
News item
Shield AI newsroom
Inspired FlightUncrewed systems
Drones in Agriculture: Building a UAS Program for Crop Monitoring, Field Trials and Research
News item
Inspired Flight newsroom
Where the week came from
six sources supplied the 8 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.
| Source | Entries |
|---|---|
| Aviation International News | 2 |
| USAspending.gov award data | 2 |
| Inspired Flight newsroom | 1 |
| Ondas Holdings newsroom | 1 |
| Shield AI newsroom | 1 |
| Textron Aviation media center | 1 |
How this edition was put together
Every row is an entry in the record, fetched again at its source on the day the record was read and confirmed to carry its excerpt. The groups are the record's own event classes, ordered as a reader of this segment reads them rather than by score alone, and within a group by the record's score and then by date.
The counts on this page are arithmetic over those rows and nothing else. Nothing is added about a company that its own entry does not carry, and the edition is assembled by software, so no line here is an opinion about anyone. What gets in, and what does not is the standard the entries are held to.
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