🔷 Saved Rounds 10.7.25

Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.

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$5B

The Army awarded Raytheon a $5B contract for Coyote counter-drone interceptors.

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The Air Force lives off of aerial refueling, but its tanker modernization strategy is at a crossroads.

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They Said It

“The Eastern Flank Watch, with the ‘Drone Wall’ as its core, will serve all of Europe.”

— Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, on the EU’s initiative to establish a comprehensive drone defense system protecting the continent’s eastern borders

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• Mistral won a $982M Army contract for one-way attack drones

• Germany was approved to buy $1.23B in AIM-120D-3 missiles

• Korean Air & Anduril partnered to explore the development of drones to fight wildfires

• Razor's Edge raised $560M in funding to advance innovation in national security technology

• Raytheon & Avio USA partnered to accelerate the production of Mk 104 rocket motors

• The Pentagon awarded $33.5M to Americarb and General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) to expand the solid rocket motor base

• X-Bow Systems won a $191.3M Air Force contract for solid rocket motor (SRM) production

• Solstar Space won a $150K NASA SBIR Phase I contract to design Wi-Fi on the moon

• Team Greypoint won Canada’s first-ever Defence Tech Hackathon

• The UK may allow Germany to join its GCAP Tempest fighter jet program

• Northrop Grumman tested autonomous docking tech for the Starlab space station

• Ursa Major’s hypersonic Angry Tortoise missile should fly by the end of the year

• Aeon & Delta Black partnered to equip the RAIDER 330 Group 3 drone with Zeus missiles

• Kayhan Space launched a free satellite visualization tool

• Boeing is relocating its F/A-18 Super Hornet life extension work out of St. Louis by 2027

• BAE & Forterra formed a partnership to develop an autonomous AMPV prototype (Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle)

• KAI unveiled its Bombardier 6500-based Compass Call-like jamming biz jet

• The Space Force’s ATLAS C2 System is finally operational (Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System)

• Honeywell unveiled a new 1,600-lb thrust class engine to target the growing UAS market

• Pratt & Whitney announced it is developing a new class of engines targeting the 500-1,800-lb thrust class

• Kratos & GE Aerospace started altitude testing on its 800-lb class engine for drones

• Beehive announced its plans to altitude test its 200-lb class Frenzy engine

• Northrop Grumman completed the third flight test of its hypersonic navigation tech

• The Army selected Leonardo DRS, Elbit America, and QinetiQ for Phase 0 of the Future Advanced Long-range Common Optical/Netted-fires Sensor (FALCONS)

• Varda Space & Southern Launch signed an agreement to support 20 capsule landings in Australia

• Kuva Space’s 3U CubeSat transmitted the first 75GHz signal in orbit

• Albedo Space is shifting from commercial imagery to building VLEO satellite buses

• General Dynamics & Beta formed a partnership for an undersea propulsion

• The Space Force is looking for inter-satellite RF terminals for Golden Dome

• HAECO is certifying its drag-reducing film for Airbus A330 aircraft

• ExLabs won a $1.9M Space Force contract for its reconfigurable spacecraft

• Intuitive Machines finalized its KinetX acquisition for deep space navigation capabilities

• AeroVironment was awarded a $499M IDIQ to support radiation-protection material development

• The SpRCO plans to award 2 contracts to demo small, low-weight radars on satellites to detect threats from nearby objects

• Maxar rebranded Maxar Intelligence and Maxar Space Systems as Vantor and Lanteris

• ACS & Mantech won a deal to integrate the Bullfrog weapon system onto maritime platforms

• The Royal Air Force retired its MQ-9A Reaper fleet after 18 years of service

• The Army is restarting its self-propelled howitzer competition

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