🔷 Saved Rounds 5.6.25

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

🌷 HEADS UP! Mother’s Day is this Sunday. You’re welcome.

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Hellhound

Check out our latest episode, a conversation with Cummings Aerospace on their Hellhound 3D-printed jet-powered kamikaze drones.

They Said It

“We still have a lot to learn to simply get to this thing airborne, flying, and executing next to an F-35, and not hitting each other. I know there’s a lot of work out there, but that’s important to make sure that we become lethal.”

— Col. Derek Brannon, director of the Marine Corps’ Cunningham Group, on the manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) experimentation campaign with the XQ-58

Word of the Week

APFIT: Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) is a program run by the Pentagon’s Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to help selected technologies from small and non-traditional companies cross the ‘valley of death’ and get into production. Awards range from $10M to $50M.

Why it Matters: The FY2026 cycle starts this month. May 8th is the first virtual office hours; here’s how to sign up.

 ICYMI

You asked for patches—we listened.

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