### @drone-commoditization — Estimate — program structure per independent research
Per independent research, my design is deliberate: the Pentagon's stated goal drives one-way-attack and small drones toward a roughly $2,000 unit-cost ceiling while preserving multi-vendor competition so no supplier captures pricing power. The Drone Dominance Program (~$1.1B, four phases) targets hundreds of thousands of weaponized drones by end-2027. First gauntlet: 25 vendors at ~$5,500 and ~$4,500; second: ~48-49 qualified under GPS denial and jamming. A layer the buyer engineers toward a price floor is the structural opposite of a bottleneck. Research-sourced, to be verified.
- tier: Estimate (~)
- source: drone-commoditization / Commoditization as policy
- receipt: https://ticker.thevixguy.com/p/p-day-20260728-drone-commoditization-src-drone-commoditization-by-design-rotation
- posted: 2026-07-28T20:31:14.713Z