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They Said It
“We’re moving fast to build B-21s!”
— Troy Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, on the Palmdale groundbreaking for the bomber’s expanding final assembly line
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Lockheed Martin unveiled PAC-3 Edge for the Army's Future Interceptor
StandardAero won a Air Force deal for predictive maintenance on jet engines
The Air Force certified its first X10D drone instructor cadre
Overland AI unveiled the autonomous Ibex on a nearly $20M APFIT contract
Somewear Labs won a contract for resilient uncrewed-system networking
Voyager Technologies won $22.4M to build Space Force rideshare dispensers
The Air Force added $12M for Scale AI agents aboard the E-4C doomsday plane
The Navy is seeking help to redesign the F-35 mission planner in a 5-year deal
The UAE finished a MK 82 Penetrator, which breaches a meter of concrete
Lockheed Martin bid 60 transports with Tata for India's $10.5B MTA program
Castelion showed Blackbeard GL firing from a truck-mounted launcher
Kaizen won a $49M Army IDIQ with a $43M first task order for classified work
The Navy cleared the USS Ronald Reagan as its second MQ-25A tanker carrier
Dynatrace closed its $915M buy of AI observability startup Arize
GA-ASI flew an MQ-20 Avenger in Navy autonomous mission planning
Boeing won a $14.7B seeker deal to triple PAC-3 MSE output
Spain picked the Airbus A321 for 3 SIGINT jets in a $489M program
B&A opened a 45,000 sq ft site in Alabama for defense and intel work
Buntar Aerospace raised $16M to scale its GPS-free recon drone and AI copilot
Advanced Navigation opened a U.S. factory to build GPS-free navigation
General Dynamics tapped Primordial to put AI voice control in combat vehicles
BLADE entered the Hunter WOLF in the Army's last-tactical-mile robot contest
Powerus secured an $82M order under its $90M Air Force interceptor IDIQ
Aventra raised a $17.5M Series A for balloon-dropped Piranha glide bombs
The Army is standing up FASCOM and an autonomy acquisition executive
Ondas secured a $56M order for safe-and-arm devices on a European munition
The Air Force will integrate LRASM on the B-52
Northrop Grumman won a $29M Navy deal for GPS-free navigation on ships
BAE Systems won an order for F-35 EW systems on Lots 20 to 22
Australia asked the US for a $300M Tomahawk mission planning system
UAV Navigation is researching LEO satellite navigation for GPS-denied drones
The Air Force used VR to train B-52 pilots in aerial refueling
The Navy plans a sole-source JMEWS LRIP contract with Raytheon
X-Bow Systems won up to $69.7M for a Navy interceptor rocket booster
France test-fired the upgraded M51.3 SLBM from a submarine for the first time
The Air Force is weighing industry access to its test ranges
The Pentagon will pilot AI-assisted security classification within 6 months
Strider Technologies won up to $85M to screen SBIR applicants for FOCI
Reveal Technology received a $9.5M Army order for Farsight 3D mapping
SRC won a $500M JIATF-401 C-UAS IDIQ with a $10.24M radar order
Furientis raised $25M for low-cost missile interceptors
Morocco flew its first F-16 Block 72 for the first time
Embraer flew the first Brazilian-built Gripen E for the first time
South Korea tested its first domestic hypersonic glide vehicle
The Pentagon offered Wolfspeed a $1.5B loan for silicon carbide capacity
Raytheon secured up to $6.3B for five years of SM-3 Block IB production
GDLS will deliver 4 PERCH 2.0 loitering munition pods to the Army this month
NIOA & AV partnered on Switchblade in Australia
Fortastra raised a $30M Series A for on-orbit security spacecraft
R2S delivered the first US-produced Tamir interceptors
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