🔷 Saved Rounds 7.8.25

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

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In that Number

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Nearly 1 in 10 ‘Tier 1’ subcontractors to US defense prime contractors are Chinese firms, according to a new study.

Zoom in

Two major defense reform bills—SPEED and FoRGED—aim to overhaul defense acquisitions, innovation, and industrial base resilience, but take different approaches.

Zoom in here for a great comparison.

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Saved Rounds

• Mach Industries revealed more details on Viper, its fast, long-range, ground-launched, AI-guided cruise missile

• Malaysia is getting 33 used F/A-18 Hornets from Kuwait next year

• The Navy demoed mission planning software for drone swarming

• Hanwha Aerospace secured a contract to supply propulsion systems for South Korea's KF-21 Boramae jets

• Sentrycs integrated counter-drone cyber over RF technology into Rafael's Drone Dome system

• Electra won a $1.9M Army contract to research hybrid-electric propulsion for aircraft

• Rafael won Romania’s V/SHORAD program to replace its Hawk defense system

• General Dynamics signed a $580M Army deal to bolster defense at Army bases

• Boeing won a $2.8B deal for new nuclear communication satellites

• The Navy is set to order up to 6,000 expendable decoys for F-35 and F-18 fighter jets

• The Air Force tested SpaceX’s Starshield on a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft

• The Royal Air Force opened a competition to replace Hawk T1 and T2 jets

• Paraguay’s Air Force received its first 4 A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from Embraer

• Terma finalized a deal to upgrade Argentina’s F-16 electronic warfare (EW) systems

• DARPA canceled its DRACO nuclear propulsion project due to decreasing launch costs in the market

• Skyeton & Prevail created the first UK-Ukraine joint venture for drone collaboration

• The Marine Corps advanced with its plan to prototype its ULS-A logistics drone

• The SDA’s Transport Layer Tranche 3 is cancelled, and new communication options are being explored

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