The US Army has signed a $500 million contract for drone defense systems from Virginia-headquartered CACI International – which beat 50 other suppliers to the deal.
NYSE-listed CACI will supply its SkyValor drone defense system to “strategic locations” under the deal, it said on July 30 – in a three-year contract that forms part of a larger C-UAS national security effort led by Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401).
The C-UAS system can be rigged up on a trailer, a flatbed, or a dedicated fixed site tower. SkyValor boasts non-kinetic drone takedowns, spanning a “broad range of RF defeat from broadband to smart jam to command inject (crash, graveyard, change waypoint, etc.)” but also “integrates with a wide range of kinetic defeat systems…”
A contract notice from the Pentagon described the CACI contract on July 30 as a “firm-fixed-price, single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity [ID/IQ] contract.”
"Contracts like this enable the procurement agility we need to rapidly deliver c-UAS technology to our warfighters," said COL Tony Lindh, Deputy Director for Rapid Acquisitions in JIATF-401.
He added: "Leveraging an... ID/IQ contract allows us to avoid overly specific product-centric programs. Since there is no single solution for drone defense, we must have the flexibility to procure layered systems to defend the homeland."
JIATF-401 was set up in August 2025 [pdf] to coordinate C-UAS activity across the federal government and beyond, with a more joined-up procurement posture – as the Pentagon scrambles to respond to a rapidly growing threat from drones.
It published its “Small Drones, Big Problems” [pdf] guidebook in June 2026.
The deal spans “counter-unmanned aerial systems and counter-small-unmanned aerial systems capabilities.. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of July 15, 2029, the Department of War said.
SkyValor recently completed evaluations by JIATF-401 in Yuma.
