Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.
In that Number
more than 1,400
The U.S. Army intercepted more than 1,400 Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones during Operation Epic Fury and the 12-Day War.
They Said It
“If anybody says anything bad about Jim Glynn or Roger Turner, I’ll punch him straight in the mouth because it’ll be a lie.”
— General Eric Smith, Commandant of the Marine Corps, speaking at the U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific change of command ceremony on August 11, 2026, praising outgoing commander Lt. Gen. James Glynn and incoming commander Lt. Gen. Roger Turner.
Saved Rounds
Rheinmetall is establishing a MQ-28 Ghost Bat integration hub in Germany
The Air Force wants an AI maintenance tool for Minuteman III ICBMs
Raytheon won a $745M MDA contract for SM‑3 IIA missile interceptors
Purple Rhombus signed a manufacturing agreement to scale drone production
Raytheon & CET demoed submerged launch capabilities of the HADALUS UUV
Ondas completed its $125M acquisition of Cyberhawk
The OSC announced a $1.4B loan to Sila Nanotechnologies
L3Harris hot-fired the Stage 2 motor for Lockheed’s Next Gen Interceptor
ePropelled secured $60M in government funding for drone motor manufacturing
The MDA issued a presolicitation for a mobile hypersonic detection radar
The UK's naval drone cameras were caught transmitting signals to China
DARPA wants feedback on a new hypersonic cruise missile project
AE Industrial launched Attilius Technologies as a national security intel platform
Ondas won an Israeli contract for attack drones
The Air Force wants ideas for deployable equipment to produce small drones
The Army opened a call for commercial controllers for drones and ground robots
CENTCOM launched a multinational one-way attack drone force
Hanwha Defense USA proposed a $1.2B acquisition of Austal USA
Boeing unveiled a new low-cost missile seeker
Ondas won a $6M Air Force contract for aerial delivery
Heaviside Industries raised $60M in Series B funding at a $600M valuation
The Army awarded 6 companies prototype contracts for autonomous UGVs
Northrop Grumman unveiled Raid Hunter for gun-based air defense operations
Lockheed Martin & Albany Engineered Composites partnered for hypersonic production
Astranis new Perceptor spacecraft will monitor geostationary satellites
Lockheed Martin’s GRIZZLY containerized launcher is production-ready
The Navy plans to acquire 31 E-130J Phoenix II aircraft to replace its E-6B fleet
Rheinmetall test-fired its kamikaze drone from a truck-mounted launcher
KAI & Hyundai Rotem partnered to co-develop KF-21 air-to-air missiles
India issued a $10.4B tender to acquire 60 multirole transport aircraft
The Space Force tapped 5 companies for data connectivity demos
The Navy established a plug-and-play consortium
Palantir is slated to receive up to $244M in no-bid work
Canada is expected to receive its first new CC-330 refueling jet in 2027
M1 won the $10B Army flight school contract
The Pentagon inked 7-year deals with RTX and Boeing on SM-3 components
BlackSky won an international multi-year contract for satellite imagery
The Army wants to counter adversary ISR satellites
Rolls-Royce has demoed a gas turbine engine powered by hydrogen
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