Smart Shooter Lands $150M Counter-Drone Contract
Smart Shooter received a $150M counter-drone award within a wider US Army domestic counter-UAS programme.
Counter-drone systems are becoming a mainstream procurement category as low-cost drones change security needs around bases and infrastructure.
What happened
Smart Shooter received a $150M counter-drone contract as part of a wider US Army programme for domestic counter-UAS capabilities. The broader award set spans multiple defence companies and supports systems intended to detect or defeat drone threats.
The award places Smart Shooter inside a growing procurement market for layered drone defence.
Why it matters
Drone threats are no longer limited to battlefields. Military facilities, critical infrastructure and public events increasingly need ways to detect, track and neutralise unmanned systems.
Smart Shooter’s award shows that counter-UAS technology is moving from specialist capability into broader defence and homeland-security infrastructure.
The bigger picture
The drone economy is creating a parallel counter-drone market. As drones become cheaper and more capable, demand for scalable defensive systems is likely to grow across defence, border security, airports and critical sites.