🔷 Saved Rounds 7.2.24

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

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💥We threw in some extra goodies to get you warmed up for the 4th of July. Enjoy!

They Said It
“The defense industrial base is being actively targeted by our adversaries and competitors, particularly by the People’s Republic of China. They are acting with increasing agility and sophistication, which we must continue to outpace.”

— Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of CYBERCOM

Zoom in

Once reserved for spy agencies, space-based radar imagery and the ability to detect and pinpoint the locations of radio frequency (RF) emissions from space are rapidly transitioning to the commercial sector. Some of these offerings are sold to the government at various classifications—while others you can buy online with a credit card.

Zoom in here to learn more.

In that Number

More than 1,500

Ukraine’s intel agency reported that their crowd-funded satellite from ICEYE has collected nearly 4,200 SAR images that were used to strike more than 1,500 Russian targets since August 2022 when the initiative began.

Check our exclusive interview with Anduril and General Atomics about the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program. These 2 companies were recently selected to build the first air vehicles.

The Air Force expects to buy 100+ CCAs by 2029, with an overarching goal of fielding 1,000+ CCAs and realizing the program’s goal of cost-effective scalability.

Check it out!

YouTube 

Apple 

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Saved Rounds

• Boeing is ready to flight test its internally developed P-8 multi-mission pod, a concept that’s been in various stages of development since 2015

• Boeing also revealed that P-8 LRASM testing will be complete this summer—yes, that’s a 737 shooting anti-ship cruise missiles

• Urban Sky won a NASA contract to develop a wildfire monitoring system using its camera-equipped stratospheric balloons

• Lockheed Martin was awarded a $2.8B Army contract to deliver 311 HIMARS through 2028

• Safran is in talks to buy French AI startup Preligens for $236m

• Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Raider price is likely to increase beyond the first 21 bombers

• Lockheed Martin received a $977m contract extension for the Next-Gen OPIR program, bringing the total spend to $8.2B for the 2 missile warning satellites

• Shield AI won a $200m contract to operate drones off of Coast Guard cutters

• Wyvern and Loft Orbital extended their partnership for hyperspectral data

• The Air Force plans to conduct the first of 13 HACM hypersonic flight tests this fall

• SpaceX won a $843m NASA contract to build a vehicle to help deorbit the ISS

• Planet laid off 17% of its workforce

• Boeing was approved to market its MQ-25 refueling drone to 4 countries: Australia, France, Japan, and the UK

• Romania is buying Quantum Systems Vector drones that have been used in Ukraine

• India is buying domestically produced Tapas ISR drones

• Germany and Norway are joining forces to develop a supersonic anti-ship cruise missile

• South Korea ordered 20 KF-21 fighters, its first production batch buy

• SNC won a $170m contract for 2 of its RAPCON-X ISR biz jets to Finland for border patrol ops

• Lockheed Martin was awarded a $5.3B contract for more Patriot PAC-3 Interceptors

• KEF Robotics received an AFWERX TACFI to advance its vision-based aerial autonomy software

• DZYNE bought High Point Aerotechnologies to expand its autonomous tech portfolio

• BlueHalo was tapped by the Army for the next phase of the service’s counter-drone missile program

• Rheinmetall & Anduril are partnering to develop an anti-drone system for Europe

• France is equipping its artillery units with long-range DT46 drones for target spotting

• Germany is buying 3,200 Brimstone missiles for its Eurofighter fleet

• Boeing is expanding its effort to inspect large aircraft with autonomous drones

• Sweden ordered a 3rd GlobalEye surveillance aircraft from Saab

• Lockheed Martin received a $534m Navy contract mod for the Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic program

and finally…

• Boeing released a video concept of a system that permits a C-17 to launch multiple hypersonic missiles (the video is worth the click just for the comments section)

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