Military Drone Spending Is Surging into Airspace Where GPS Can No Longer Be Trusted

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• The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request includes $53.6 billion, described as a multi-year investment, to expand U.S. drone capabilities and protect service members from adversary unmanned systems.
• SPARC AI reported live testing under GPS jamming 17 kilometers from Ukraine’s front line, while a government ministry in the Middle East flew Overwatch on its own drones under spoofing conditions.
• The company is expanding Overwatch into fixed-wing UAVs through a European manufacturer agreement while advancing fleet-wide intelligence and commercial opportunities in the Middle East.

Military drone budgets are moving from thousands of aircraft to millions. The Pentagon’s fiscal 2027 budget request includes $53.6 billion, described as a multi-year investment, to expand U.S. drone capabilities and protect service members from adversary unmanned systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told an AUSA panel this month that the department is also seeking roughly $50 billion in one-time reconciliation funding to scale autonomous and robotic systems. The Army has said it expects to buy at least a million drones within two to three years, treating them more like expendable ammunition than exquisite equipment. The same request that funds U.S. drones also funds defenses against adversary ones, and on the battlefields shaping these plans, jamming and spoofing of satellite navigation are routine. Every drone bought at this scale for a contested environment has to keep working when GPS fails.

SPARC AI Inc. (CSE: SPAI) (OTCQB: SPAIF) (FSE: 5OV0) is building for that condition with Overwatch, a positioning service…

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