{"id":214386,"date":"2026-02-17T04:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:55:09","slug":"spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous drone technology &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology-1676133\/\">SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous drone technology &#8211;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology-1676133\/\">https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology-1676133\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-17 04:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamereactor.eu\">www.gamereactor.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX and its subsidiary xAI are reportedly competing in a secret Pentagon contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, according to Bloomberg News. The $<strong>100 million, six-month challenge<\/strong> aims to create systems capable of translating voice commands into digital instructions to control multiple drones simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is being run by the US Department of Defense&#8217;s innovation unit. The development comes <strong>after SpaceX acquired xAI<\/strong>, combining Elon Musk&#8217;s space and defence operations with his artificial intelligence startup ahead of a planned IPO.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX \/\/ Shutterstock<span itemprop=\"creator\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" itemscope=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has been accelerating drone development while seeking cost-effective ways to counter unmanned aircraft threats, particularly around major public events such as the upcoming FIFA World Cup and America250 celebrations. <strong>Advanced AI tools are seen as central<\/strong> to improving coordination and defence capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>The reported participation marks a shift from Musk&#8217;s earlier stance. In 2015, he signed an open letter calling for a <strong>global ban on offensive autonomous weapons<\/strong>. However, his companies have since secured major AI-related defence contracts, alongside firms such as OpenAI and Google&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology-1676133\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous drone technology &#8211; https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-technology-1676133\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-17&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/31\/spacexcompetepentagon_4813143b.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62,85],"class_list":["post-214386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214388,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214386\/revisions\/214388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}