DroneShield signs $7.6m US Government deal

Australian drone defence manufacturing company DroneShield has announced it is seeing continued rapid increase in customer order flow, mainly from repeat customers looking to step up their number of counter-drone systems from a low or non-existent base, with the receipt of a package of three standalone contracts totalling $7.6 million for handheld systems for delivery to the US Government. DroneShield expects to deliver all equipment in Q4 2025.

DroneShield has previously received orders from this customer, including $5.7 million in May 2024 and $7.9 million in September 2025. The company says these repeat orders strengthen DroneShield’s position as a trusted provider of mission-critical solutions to address the growing challenge of drone threats on the modern battlefield and the civilian sector.

“For 2025 year to date, DroneShield has received 78 purchase orders with a median size order of approximately $400,000,” said Oleg Vornik, CEO of DroneShield. “This compared to 66 orders for all of 2024, with the median order value of $200,000.”

Operationally, DroneShield continues to execute on production expansion from $500 million annually to $2.4 billion by end of 2026, including commencement of European- and US-based assembly plants.

DroneShield says its handheld solutions form a cornerstone of its wider counter-drone range, which spans dismounted, vehicle-mounted and fixed-site solutions that fuse multiple sensors and effectors integrated through DroneShield’s advanced software. Together, they provide a layered defence architecture enabling operators to detect, track, identify and defeat hostile drones with speed and precision.

Customers enrolled into the company’s SaaS-based AI software updates receive new firmware quarterly through a secure portal. DroneShield launched its newest AI SaaS offering, RFAI-ATK, last month, providing an AI-enabling drone defeat capability that is currently undergoing trial deployments with its customers and expected to launch as a regular SaaS solution in mid-2026.

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