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In that Number
2,200
Ukrainian UGV manufacturer Trinity Robotics plans to double production to 2,200 units this year to meet surging demand for its logistics and evacuation robots.
The company is actively working with European investors and negotiating a joint venture with a French manufacturer to establish production capabilities abroad to further scale its operations.

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Saved Rounds
Vatn Systems launched SIGURD, an underwater mine countermeasure system
The Navy wants unmanned carrier aircraft that fly 2000+ miles
Cambridge Aerospace is raising $300M at a $3.4B valuation
The Pentagon is making a $10B investment in Pennsylvania’s defense industry
Saildrone & Blue Water Autonomy sued the Navy over MUSV rejection
The Air Force wants new rocket engines that fly like jets
Curtiss-Wright announced an $80M Pennsylvania facility expansion
Ukraine agreed on a plan to acquire 16 French Rafale jets from France
Iridium commercially released its PNT ASIC chip to protect GNSS devices
FLEXELL SPACE raised a $20M Series A for its solar power tech
Boston Consulting Group won a $19.9M Army contract to reform arms sales
Hellion Tech emerged from stealth to build AI-powered missile defense
Azerbaijan brought Chinese JF-17 fighters into active service
Parabilis delivered a CubeSat propulsion prototype to the Space Force
Machina was awarded a Lockheed Martin contract for JASSM structures
The Air Force and DARPA's VENOM F-16 program progressed to flight tests
Rheinmetall & MBDA partnered to build a laser weapon for the German Navy
York Space Systems completed its $300M acquisition of ALL.SPACE
Voyager Technologies won a $298M NASA contract for lunar lander missions
Dassault Aviation & Harmattan AI tested an electronic warfare payload
Germany is purchasing Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States
BAE Systems secured a Boeing contract to upgrade South Korea’s F-15K jets
Reflect Orbital won FCC approval to launch its Eärendil-1 demo satellite
Illinois Engineers developed a thermal cloak hiding objects from IR cameras
Kratos won a $100M sole-source contract for space domain awareness
Antaris established Aeonyx to advance all-domain mission virtualization
Valarian raised a $50M Series A for AI infrastructure
ReElement Technologies received a $25M DoW investment to refine minerals
The UK awarded $4.3M to three suppliers for low-cost drone interceptors
BlackSea Technologies named Mythos AI as its first Mainstay autonomy partner
The Pentagon selected Tesseract Ventures to test drone-launching containers
Northrop Grumman broke ground on a new Sentinel missile program facility
The Army issued a solicitation for a potential $100M research center contract
Airbus confirmed the Eurofighter Tranche 4 jet completed its maiden flight
TOTE won a $2.2B Navy contract for Medium Landing Ship construction
The Army revealed plans for its autonomous CAML and E-HEL laser programs
Slingshot won a $69M Space Force contract for AI-powered training
GABLER & FLANQ completed the Sea Acceptance Test for their Ranger USV
SWISSto12 closed a $70M Series C to scale GEO satellite production
ideaForge’s indigenous UAV fleet completed over one million successful flights
NorthStar won a $418M Navy contract to dismantle USS Enterprise
Agile Defense won a $100M NORAD OTA to deliver its Workforce AI platform
The UK unveiled Storm Fighter, a $405M uncrewed wingman concept
Vertical Aerospace & Near Earth Autonomy are making Valo autonomous
True Anomaly won a Space Force contract for the Kronos program
Voyager & Penn State partnered to expand the state’s space economy
L3Harris & Shield AI completed an autonomous electronic warfare flight test
Elbit Systems plans to convert commercial vessels into drone bases
Paramount Aerospace unveiled a manned aircraft to counter drones
SOCOM is looking for air-launched drones with automatic target recognition
The DIU requested proposals for power-beaming satellite prototypes
Saronic announced plans to construct a $3B shipyard in Texas
Lockheed Martin won a $10.5B USSOCOM contract for global logistics support
Saudi Arabia was approved to buy 20,000 APKWS guidance kits
Auterion & SkyFall partnered to provide Ukraine with 50,000 strike drones
The Army tested Hermes, an electromagnetic drone interceptor launch system
Kongsberg & Oceaneering were selected to develop a new XLUUV for the Navy
Europe initiated the Bliksem EXO project for exo-atmospheric missile defense
South Korea backed 50 startups to develop innovative military technologies
NASA tapped SpaceX’s Starlink to deliver Artemis III Orion imagery
Lockheed Martin Ventures committed $100M to defense tech in Europe
Raytheon's Stinger replacement missile scored direct hits in aerial threat tests
Axon Vision unveiled ForceField, an AI system protecting troops from drones
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