Army Autonomy Command and Autonomous Interceptors | Oct 14, 2026

The US Army builds autonomy into its force structure while a startup claims an interceptor that needs no human at the trigger.

This episode covers the Army's new Futures and Autonomous Systems Command, redesignated from Futures and Concepts Command and led by a still-unnamed three-star, with a focus on corps-level autonomous formations, Fort Rucker as the autonomy center of excellence, and the reported closure of the Unmanned Assault Battalion in Europe. We examine Powerus's Guardian 3, billed as a fully autonomous drone interceptor, and the Congressional Budget Office finding that the US used roughly two-thirds of certain interceptor stocks by August. Denmark buys AI-ready counter-drone command and control from Systematic, linked to Terma's system. We follow up on the Pentagon counter-drone marketplace and Kaizen's $49 million Army contract. In Ukraine, Russia reportedly fields a cumulative-cutting warhead on a jet-powered drone, Ukraine runs an amphibious ground robot logistics mission, and strikes on fuel reportedly starve Russian electronic warfare generators.

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