The U.S. Army unveiled an Unmanned Aircraft Systems Marketplace built with Amazon Web Services and the Army Enterprise Cloud Management Agency, creating a digital storefront where Army units, government partners, and allied nations can browse vetted drone systems, compare options, submit feedback, and place orders. The marketplace is designed as a direct response to the Pentagon's notoriously slow and costly procurement process, which has struggled to keep pace with the rapid evolution of drone warfare demonstrated in Ukraine, where unmanned weapons now account for the vast majority of battlefield casualties and the country is producing an estimated 7 million drones per year, according to former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus. Army acquisition chief Brent Ingraham said the storefront is i
