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Army Plans To Roll Out ‘Amazon-Like’ UAS Marketplace In Early October

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, August 8th, 2025

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Army Plans To Roll Out ‘Amazon-Like’ UAS Marketplace In Early October

Red Cat's Black Widow sUAS. Photo: Red Cat.

The Army will roll out an initial version of its new UAS Marketplace “storefront” in early October, allowing soldiers to use an “Amazon-like interface” to select specific drone capabilities to fit their unit’s mission needs. Army officials described the UAS Marketplace as a larger strategy beyond the just new website that looks to deliver drone capabilities to troops faster and at scale by adopting a new “free market” acquisition approach focused on continuous competition and incentivizing industry innovation. “The UAS…

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