The Army has awarded Raytheon a $5 billion contract for the Coyote Missile System, which will buy launchers, kinetic and non-kinetic interceptors and Ku-band radio frequency system radars, according to a Monday Pentagon contract announcement.
The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a completion date of Sept. 28, 2033, with “work locations and funding” to be determined with each order, according to the notice.
The announcement of the Coyote contract was made one day before the end of fiscal year 2025. In its FY-26 unfunded priorities list, the Army had included $207 million for the coyote counter-small unmanned aerial system missile effector, used to destroy small drones, Inside Defense previously reported.
The Pentagon also announced a $982 million contract to Mistral on Monday to provide “lethal unmanned systems,” according to a notice. That contract has an estimated completion date of Sept. 29, 2030.
Earlier this year, the Defense Innovation Unit, in collaboration with Singapore’s Ministry of Defense, selected Mistral to be among the winners as part of its Joint Innovation Challenge that focused on dual-use technologies supporting two operational demands for drone warfare.
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