Military Drones

Recognizing that drones are reshaping warfare and the U.S. is trying to catch up, War Secretary Pete Hegseth has launched an initiative called "Drone Dominance." He describes it as a billion-dollar program funded by President Trump’s "Big Beautiful Bill," with phased targets to field tens of thousands of small drones to forces in 2026 and hundreds of thousands in 2027, and says he will meet with the services to drive transformational changes in doctrine and outfit combat units with unmanned systems at scale.