Welcome to Tuesday's Saved Rounds, where we send out all the goodies we couldn't squeeze into our Sunday newsletter.
In that Number
70
The first of 70 single-pallet-sized tactical operations centers will begin shipping to Air Force units by the end of the year. These are called Tactical Operations Center-Light (TOC-L), the Air Force’s next-generation ground-based air battle management kits.
Booze Allen was awarded a $315M rapid prototyping contract to produce them.
They Said It
“We absolutely need to change, and we’re not getting it done. We just aren’t.”
— Navy Rear Adm. Todd Weeks, on the state of the Navy’s fleet maintenance and shipyard crisis.

Saved Rounds
The Air Force added $46.1M to DZYNE's ULTRA glider drone test contract
Metallus closed a $995M deal for HF-1 steel for 155mm artillery shells
The Navy’s new W93 sub-launched nuclear warhead started development
Lockheed Martin received a contract mod for next-gen Trident II missile work
The Air Force is testing small drones to scout damaged runways
MARTAC partnered with SŌLACE to boost production of Devil Ray USVs
Paramount unveiled the V-Raven, a VTOL ISR drone with 8-hour endurance
Lockheed Martin linked 16 F-35 simulators across 4 bases in an exercise
Defense Unicorns was tapped for Air Mobility Command's OMEN effort
Lockheed Martin fielded the first ODIN software to replace F-35's ALIS
The State Dept cleared a $2.68B Ukraine air defense sale
L3Harris signed a multi-year deal with the Navy to boost Tomahawk parts
AWS became the first cloud cleared by NATO to handle RESTRICTED data
Ondas acquired Insignito, Ottopia Defense and Caribou Labs for $56M
Starlab & Arkwright Space partnered on in-orbit semiconductor making
Firefly Aerospace expanded facilities in Texas
SpaceX gained exclusive access to classified DoW space tracking data
KEF, Orqa, and Blue Arrow partnered on an autonomous drone demo
Canada's first F-35A flew its maiden sortie
Armaments Research won a $4.7M Army OTA for AI weapon sensors
The Air Force awarded $17M to 3 firms for B-52 SATCOM
The US & UK fired a Mk 48 torpedo from large drone submarine
Leidos won a $127M extension for the Army's ARTEMIS ISR jets
Johns Hopkins APL landed a $390M Air Force research support IDIQ
L3Harris received an $876M mod for the Navy's Next Gen Jammer Low Band
Fincantieri & Leonardo won a $4.2B contract for 2 DDX destroyers
DIU is seeking investors to fund facility clearances for C-UXS vendors
Detroit Defense acquired Athenix to expand its defense and intel portfolio
DeltaQuad revealed Evo-LE, an 8-hour electric VTOL with a 300-mi range
Skyryse partnered with BAE Australia to put SkyOS on autonomous aircraft
China's Shenlong spaceplane released and recaptured a satellite twice in orbit
Solcoa Industries raised $75M to build a 500-tonne rare earth metal plant
Germany wants to co-produce PAC-3 MSE interceptors
HAL delivered India’s 2 LCA Tejas twin-seat jets and 3 HTT-40 trainers
Elroy Air upsized its PIPE investments to $175M
Northrop Grumman’s F-16 IVEWS jammer deal tops $1.9B
Leonardo won a $30M U.S. Army deal for phase-locked diode lasers
Australia is retiring its Tiger attack helicopters for AH-64E Apaches
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