First person view combat drone developed by Ukraine's Grim Tech. Photo: Grim Tech

The Pentagon’s Drone Dominance Program (DDP) on July 1 said it invited 19 companies to compete in the final stage of its second challenge round in August with a chance to win production orders worth a combined $300 million. The companies invited to compete at Fort Carson, Colo., are Ascent Aerosystems, Auterion Government Solutions, Griffon Aerospace, Grim Tech, Hyperscale, ModalAI, a team of Mountain Horse Solutions and AG3 Labs, Neros Technologies, ORQA US LLC, Perennial Autonomy, Renegade UxS, Skycutter, Stellarion,…