{"id":139566,"date":"2024-10-14T00:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/pentagon-drone-counter-attack-system-contract\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T00:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:17:48","slug":"pentagon-awards-new-250-million-drone-counter-attack-system-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=139566","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Awards New $250 Million Drone Counter Attack System Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has awarded Anduril a $250 million contract for the delivery of advanced air defense capabilities, including its new reusable Roadrunner-M (a             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257215\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/vtol\/\"  >VTOL<\/a><\/span> interceptor). Anduril is a startup defense contractor founded in 2017 that works to deliver artificial intelligence and robotics. It is developing a number of advanced             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"15058\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/drones\/\"  >drones<\/a><\/span> and counter-drone systems &#8211; and has even been         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2026414\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-colllaborative-combat-aircraft-awards\/\" >given the go-ahead to move to the next stage in developing the sixth-gen NGAD fighter&#8217;s CCA<\/a><\/span> (collaborative combat aircraft).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anduril&#8217;s new Roadrunner-M drone-interceptor munition drone has been awarded an initial contract for 500 units, with many more likely to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,4160,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-drones","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139567,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139566\/revisions\/139567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}