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Stealth is now 50 years old.
Zoom in here for a reflective look at the past, the present, and the future of stealth.
They Said It
“We must understand the domain, but it’s more than just that; we must move beyond just a potpourri of sensors and data into an era of true decision quality understanding.”
— Gen. Chance Saltzman, Chief of Space Operations, on advancing space domain awareness through deeper integration and improved decision-making beyond sensor data.
Saved Rounds
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works revealed a new CCA drone (first flight 2027)
Schiebel expands its helicopter-drone lineup with the armed variants
York Space delivered its largest batch of satellites for launch for the SDA
Verified Market Reports reported that the military radar market will grow to $17.2B by 2033
L3Harris won a $292M Army contract for more Javelin solid rocket motors
Savox Communications & Nokia announced a partnership for tactical communications
BlackSky secured another NGA contract for automated change detection
Textron is taking its Beechcraft M-346N on tour to garner awareness of its offering for the Navy T-45 replacement program
Northrop Grumman’s Beacon autonomy test bed will fly this fall
South Korea announced an upgrade plan for its indigenous KF-21 Boramae fighter jet
The Royal Navy declared the Malloy T-150 and Peregrine drones ready for frontline operations
The Air Force’s last MC-12W Liberty ISR aircraft has been retired
PDW won a $20M Army contract to supply C100 drones and payloads
ReOrbit raised a $53.3M Series A funding round to expand spacecraft production
Maxar & AIDC announced a partnership to deploy Raptor software in Taiwan's drone industry
China unveiled a large twin-engine flying-wing drone
Maxar & Ecopia AI launched Vivid Features, an AI-powered mapping system
Reliable Robotics closed a $17.4M deal to operate its autonomous Cessna 208B for Air Force cargo testing
Reaction Dynamics was selected to proceed into phase 2 of NATO's DIANA accelerator
Steadicopter & ParaZero integrated an airdrop system into a Black Eagle 50E unmanned helicopter
Scale AI secured a $100M ceiling contract to make its platform available for the Pentagon
Taiwan unveiled an indigenous ballistic missile defense system
CACI won a potential $180M contract to upgrade the Air Force’s IT in the Pacific
Teledyne FLIR Defense unveiled the autonomous launch and recovery system for drones
Machina Labs won an AFRL contract to boost the capabilities of its RoboCraftsman machine to automate aircraft production
Applied Intuition & AEVEX Aerospace demoed autonomy on the Atlas launched effect
NVIDIA is set to invest $5B in Intel
Norway was approved to buy 800+ GBU-39 glide bombs
Northrop Grumman’s 3 chip factories are now taking orders from other aerospace and defense firms
Lockheed Martin secured a contract to upgrade South Korea’s F-16 flight simulators
The Navy approved the MQ-4C Triton for operations, despite deficiencies and potential mission risks
The Netherlands was approved to buy 230 AIM-120C-8 missiles for $570M
Belgium was approved to buy 550+ AIM-9X missiles for $568M
Peru was approved to buy 12 F-16 Block 70 fighters for $3.42B
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