Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.
In that Number
over $47 Billion
The Pentagon now estimates the Iran war has cost the U.S. military over $47B. More than $29B of the total is to replace expended munitions, and more than $6B is to replace equipment and platform losses.
Zoom in
Cheap drones have done to armored maneuver what the machine gun did to the infantry advance in 1914. Could the technology pinning armies down also get them moving again?
Zoom in here for maneuver warfare in the face of robotic mass.
Havoc AI
The Pentagon wants thousands of autonomous systems. The question is who builds them and how fast.
Joey Arora sits down with Paul Lwin, Co-Founder and CEO of Havoc, to talk about collaborative autonomy and why the path to mass runs through software, not shipyards.
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Saved Rounds
Destinus built its 1,750th Ruta B1 cruise missile (nearing 300/month)
SOCOM wants a common environment to test and field new tech
General Atomics tapped Boeing's Spirit Defense for FQ-42A CCA fuselages
Kratos is installing 3D metal printers for hypersonics
X-Bow will build booster motors for CoAspire's cruise missile
Beehive Industries ran its 100-lbf Frenzy 6 jet engine for the first time
Cowboy Space (ex-Aetherflux) raised a $275M Series B at a $2B valuation
Swarmer is acquiring Vataga Drone's IP and 15 of its staff
JVIS (automotive) launched a defense unit with a $13M Army contract
SNC & Skyryse partnered to retrofit SkyOS autonomy onto military fleets
CACI won a $281M Navy task order for electromagnetic warfare work
Skyborne's shotgun-armed drone made the Blue UAS list
The Marines tested a Maven air-defense dashboard built in under 2 months
The Army picked AWS and WWT for a $2.6M cyber defense pilot
Anduril & Qualcomm unveiled BlueChip rugged laptops
The Army took 4 MQ-8C Fire Scouts from the Navy
SPARC AI signed an MOU to test GPS-free navigation in Europe
The U.S. & Japan finalized a deal for an AIM-120 assembly plant in Japan
The UK committed to spending 3% of GDP on defense by 2030
Qarbon Aerospace won an Air Force contract for B-1B composite structures
Leonardo will use Shield AI's Hivemind on its Proteus uncrewed helicopter
Stoke Space is set to get a $150M OSC loan for a 2nd Cape Canaveral pad
Kongsberg won a $54M DIU OTA modification to deliver more AUVs
The Air Force flew the XQ-67A to test mission systems and BLOS datalinks
Teledyne FLIR won a $48M FMS deal to make CBRN drone scouts
Applied Aeronautics launched Fleet, a platform to track UAS, gear, and flights
The Navy awarded Integer $23.1M to research zero-trust warship power grids
Lockheed Martin received a $43.7M mod to upgrade F-35 reprogramming labs
The Air Force is seeking ASARS-2 support for U-2s it wants retired in FY27
Reach Power flew a drone for 10 hours on wireless power beaming alone
ARX Robotics & Roboneers integrated a weapon station on a UGV
Iran claimed it captured an intact U.S. MQM-170 Outlaw target drone
Northrop Grumman received $56M to retrofit a single MQ-4C Triton
Northrop Grumman received $97M for FMU-139 fuzes as output hits 85,000/yr
PACOM announced a new multinational data-sharing network
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