{"id":992803,"date":"2026-02-17T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992803"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:40:27","slug":"spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-tech-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/spacex-to-compete-in-pentagon-contest-for-autonomous-drone-tech-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to compete in Pentagon contest for autonomous drone tech: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and its wholly-owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secret new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, xAI and the Pentagon&#8217;s defense innovation unit did not immediately respond \u200cto requests \u2060for comment. \u2060Reuters could not independently verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX and its wholly-owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secret new Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming technology, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. SpaceX, xAI and the Pentagon&#8217;s defense innovation unit did not immediately respond \u200cto requests \u2060for comment. \u2060Reuters could not independently verify the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}