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JIATF-401 Marketplace

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The JIATF-401 Marketplace is an Army-run procurement marketplace operated by jiatf-401 that connects vetted counter-uas capability vendors with users — initially DoD, now expanding to NATO-allied partner nations.

Named partner nations (as of April 2026):

The Army secretary’s stated goal is to expand marketplace access to 25 partner nations by end of summer 2026. Brig. Gen. matt-ross (JIATF-401 director) and Maj. matt-mellor (lead acquisitions specialist) are the public spokesmen for the program.

The marketplace pairs with army-enterprise-contracts (e.g. the $20B anduril IDIQ for lattice-c2) as twin pillars of a federated C-UAS procurement architecture: the IDIQ scales DoD orders against vetted vendors, the marketplace scales allied access to the same capability set.

April 2026 — Stateside-events + state/local LE dimension

Per Army Secretary dan-driscoll’s April 16 2026 House Defense Appropriations testimony (src-army-counter-drone-marketplace-stateside-2026-04):

  • Cumulative marketplace sales: ~$13M of C-UAS tech moved through the site since launch.
  • Buyers: Southern-border task force, CENTCOM (procurement channel for operation-epic-fury), and “individual services with homeland defense missions.”
  • Catalog: ~12 C-UAS systems and >1,600 items including spare parts; the breadth is designed to compress acquisition lead times.
  • Eligibility expanded to state, local, and federal law enforcement, with purchases already on the books. 350 state/local police departments have been brought through joint-base-myer-henderson-hall to sync them in to the marketplace.
  • Shared “sight picture”: all marketplace users agree to a common sight picture for cross-jurisdiction drone monitoring; DefenseScoop notes the technical implementation is not yet disclosed.
  • Stateside high-profile events: marketplace tooling is being routed to harden the FIFA World Cup 2026 ($100M committed, 11 cities / 9 states), America 250 celebrations, and the 2028 LA Summer Olympics. tom-karako frames the new normal as “Super Bowl-style bubbles over lots of things all year round.”
  • The doctrinal motivation cited is operation-spider-web (2025 Ukrainian truck-launched drone attack on Russian strategic aircraft).

The marketplace now spans three lines of effort: (1) DoD-internal procurement (CENTCOM, southern border, homeland-defense services), (2) overseas partner-nation procurement (united-kingdom, romania, target 25 nations by end-summer 2026), and (3) stateside event protection / state-local-federal LE eligibility.

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