# Army Advances Drone Munitions Integration

The Army’s DEVCOM Armaments Center is working with industry under a cooperative research and development agreement to integrate conventional munitions with unmanned systems through modular, standardized interfaces. The Army’s September 15 webinar attracted more than 500 industry participants, but the initiative has no announced contract value, solicitation number, or schedule for selecting an interface standard. Contractors with expertise in payload integration, safety engineering, energetics, and fire control may find opportunities to contribute to this work.

- Companies can assess whether their payload-integration, safety-engineering, energetics, or fire-control capabilities fit the Army’s stated collaboration areas; the signal does not identify a specific solicitation or award opportunity.
- The 2027 Defense R&D Summit is scheduled for February 4, 2027, providing another forum focused on unmanned systems and related technologies.
- The initiative’s modular-interface approach makes safety engineering and integration capabilities relevant areas for industry engagement as the Army works to connect munitions with unmanned platforms.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Defense & Military
**Published:** November 10, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Army (Army)
- U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center (DEVCOM Armaments Center)
- Project Manager Close Combat Systems (PM CCS)
- Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for Unmanned Systems (DRPM UxS)

### Vendors
- Bravo Ordnance (Prize challenge winner)

### Key Quotes
> The traditional approach of bolting safety on at the end of the engineering process simply does not work for the speed at which we are trying to achieve today.
> — Col. Isaac Cuthbertson, Project Manager for Close Combat Systems

### Sources
- [Army DEVCOM Armaments Advances Plug-and-Play Drone Lethality](https://www.executivegov.com/articles/army-devcom-armaments-center-plug-and-play-drone-lethality) - ExecutiveGov