
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday said it has added three additional unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) from Anduril Industries, Freefly Systems, and Skydio to its list of approved commercially-developed small UAS that can be acquired by warfighters without having to worry about a program of record. The additional UAS are Anduril’s autonomous Ghost-X, Freefly’s Astro quadcopter, and Skydio’s X10D. All three companies already had one or more small platforms on DIU’s Blue UAS, which meets certain supply chain and…