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Unmanned Systems

JIATF-401 Acquiring Bumblebee Counter-UAS Drones For Operational Assessment

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, February 9th, 2026

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JIATF-401 Acquiring Bumblebee Counter-UAS Drones For Operational Assessment

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The Defense Department’s counter-drone task force has awarded a small contract to Perennial Autonomy to purchase the company’s Bumblebee V2 drones to assess them as a low-cost and low-collateral damage option to defeat other small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS). The $5.2 million contract was announced by the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF)-401 on Feb. 6. The number of drones being acquired was not disclosed to “maintain operational security,” a spokesperson for JIATF-401 said on Monday. The first person view multi-rotor…

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