🔷 Saved Rounds 2.25.25

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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They Said It

“We’re ready to rock and roll on this. We’d go straight into production, full-rate production. This Iron Dome is perfect timing for us, and I’d be willing to go into Trump’s office and tell them we’re ready to go today.”

— Dave Alexander, President of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI), on a new long-range wide-area sensor the company has been developing for the past decade

 ICYMI

Zoom in

Iron Dome for America is happening—fast.

Zoom in here for details on the 4 Epochs and submitting proposals (RFI responses are due February 28th).

Zoom in here for thoughts from the 4-star general who commanded NORTHCOM / NORAD, whose mission is to defend the homeland.

In that Number

31,000 miles

Meta announced plans to build a subsea cable project spanning 31,000 miles.

 Together with Raytheon

Saved Rounds

• Neros was tapped to send 6,000 FPV drones to Ukraine

• Northrop Grumman was awarded 2 deals from Poland totaling $1.4B for Integrated Battle Command Systems (IBCS)

• ABL Space rebranded to Long Wall to fit its pivot into defense

• Romania was approved to buy 400 SDBs (Small Diameter Bombs)

• Safran won an Army contract for flight testing antennas for the FLRAA program (Future Long Range Assault Aircraft)

• True Anomaly opened a satellite factory in California

• India’s army announced plans to buy 1,000 surveillance helicopters

• Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) completed Army production qualification test shots

• Airbus incurred a $314m loss in its space portfolio last quarter

• SDA will recompete the 10-satellite $254m award to Tyvak for the fire control on-orbit (FOO Fighter) program

• Embraer began assembling Austria's first C-390 aircraft

• Colombia’s air force is evaluating Baykar’s TB3 drone

• Indonesia bought 60 TB3 and 9 Akinci drones from Baykar

• Saronic announced plans for Port Alpha, a next-gen shipyard

• General Atomics & CAE signed an agreement for a new MQ-9B trainer

• Dynamic Integrated Services acquired Vital Edge Solutions (government IT)

• Calidus was awarded a $1B UAE contract for a new missile system (few details)

• Leonardo delivered Italy's first AW249 Phoenix combat helicopters

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