Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.
They Said It
“Our traditional PACE plans — primary, alternate, contingency, emergency — ways to [communicate] are dead. A sequential PACE plan, predicated on responding to failure with manual, step-by-step user actions is useless against concurrent multi-band jamming,”
— Lt. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, I Corps Commander, regarding the necessity to transition away from traditional communication contingency plans in modern electronic warfare environments
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An uninhabited 108-square-foot spot of land 1,000 miles south of mainland Japan is the basis of the nation’s claim to a 150,000-square-mile exclusive economic zone in the Pacific.
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Saved Rounds
ThinKom won a $49M Army contract for counter-drone microwave system
The Coast Guard wants to convert cargo planes into surveillance aircraft
The Space Force signed deals with 3 companies for satellite deorbiting
Vectus launched an offering for air defense as a service
Switzerland requested an additional $1.2B for air defense procurement
Taiwan proposed a record $31.4B defense budget for 2027
General Atomics closed a $203M Indian deal to lease 2 MQ-9B systems
The Air Force tested portable ground station prototypes to control CCAs
Textron was awarded a $231M Navy contract for 2 hovercraft
The Navy approved Northrop Grumman's E-2D Hawkeye Block II upgrade
Saildrone announced plans to expand European production across 3 countries
Ondas is acquiring Aran Defense to expand Israeli manufacturing capacity
BlueBird introduced a tiny drone antenna for boosted comms in Ukraine
SOCOM wants drone autonomy software that works with its CHAOS baseline
Viasat selected Rocket Lab to build an anti-jam Space Force satellite
Terma is acquiring Dencrypt to add encrypted communications technology
Peru selected L3Harris' Viper Shield EW system for F-16 fighters
CesiumAstro acquired Jariet Technologies for its chip-to-mission capabilities
Shadow Box Solutions launched ShadowBox Charlie for distributed C2
Destinus, CUBEDIN, & OMT signed an MoU for modular naval interceptors
The Army gathered 50 firms to test counter-UAS systems
Australia & Japan tested a high-energy laser called Project Boobook
EdgeRunner & AI2C collaborated to build an Army-specific LLM
Qatar was approved to buy KC-46 tankers (potential $4.5B deal)
The Navy started an effort to develop a next-gen SeaSparrow missile
AFRL is taking proposals for its Relentless Wolfpack weapons program
The Army expanded its procurement goal to 11,582 Infantry Squad Vehicles
PDW received a conditional loan to expand domestic drone production
Kratos received multi-million-dollar orders for tri-band ground station systems
Saab unveiled a mock-up of its Combat Collaborative Aircraft concept
POLARIS Spaceplanes flew its COBRA drone prototype for the first time
General Dynamics won a $41.57M Navy contract for Tomahawk warhead parts
Italy was approved to buy APKWS rockets (potential $362M deal)
Sweden's Gripen jet launched a Taurus cruise missile for the first time
Astro Mechanica announced engine supply talks with United Airlines
The OSC posted a funding opportunity for critical mineral supply programs
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