Defense Systems News
Latest Defense Systems news and analysis — 184 articles tagged Defense Systems on The Robotics Media.
- DHS Awards $1.5B In Counter-Drone Contracts To Anduril, Booz Allen, GDIT — — The Department of Homeland Security has split a $1.5 billion counter-UAS indefinite delivery contract between 14 vendors led by Anduril, Booz Allen an...
- TEKEVER Signs Portuguese Air Force AR5 Drone Deal, First Delivery September — — Pan-European autonomous systems company TEKEVER has signed a contract to supply its long-endurance AR5 unmanned aerial system to the Portuguese Air Fo...
- Judge Blocks Pentagon Blacklisting Of Anthropic In Landmark Ruling — — U.S. District Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic was illegal and issued a permanent injunction,...
- Space Force Adds Rocket Lab To SDN Consortium With $12M In Contracts — — Rocket Lab has been selected into the U.S. Space Force's Space Data Network Consortium and awarded $12 million in delivery orders to demonstrate secur...
- Tonner Drones To Acquire Azur Drones In European Drone-In-A-Box Push — — Paris-listed Tonner Drones signed a binding protocol to buy 100% of French autonomous-drone maker Azur Drones from Drone Volt, restarting the Skeyetec...
- XTEND X-Strike Lethality Package Cleared Into Pentagon Drone Dominance Program — — XTEND's U.S.-made X-Strike lethality package has been accepted into the Department of War's Drone Dominance Program and paired with its Gauntlet II pl...
- REGENT Craft Raises $240M Series B To Scale Seaglider Production — — REGENT Craft closed a $240 million Series B on August 27, co-led by Mare Liberum and AE Ventures with debt from Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank, funding t...
- U.S. Army Awards $2.2B For Janus Program Nuclear Microreactors At Five Bases — — The U.S. Army will pay up to $2.2 billion over five years to Antares Nuclear, BWXT, General Atomics, Radiant Industries and Westinghouse to design and...
- U.S. Army Awards Heaviside Industries $99M For MOTH Drone-Detection Sensor — — The U.S. Army has awarded Marina del Rey defense startup Heaviside Industries a five-year contract worth up to $99 million to field the MOTH handheld...
- Palladyne AI Teams With NORDA Dynamics To Fuse SwarmOS And Ukraine-Proven Terminal Guidance — — Palladyne AI and Ukrainian-Estonian drone specialist NORDA Dynamics are integrating SwarmOS with NORDA's combat-proven Underdog Autonomy Module to let...
- Korean Air Partners With Archer Aviation On Militarized Midnight eVTOL For South Korea — — Korean Air has struck a partnership with Archer Aviation to adapt the Midnight eVTOL for the South Korean military, with the flag carrier handling air...
- UK Signs AI Defence Pact With Ukraine, Taps Avengers AI Labs Data — — Prime Minister Andy Burnham and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a 100-year AI defence partnership giving British startups Sintela, Mind Foundry a...
- Saildrone Fires First Missiles From A Wind-Powered Robot Ship At RIMPAC — — Saildrone's Surveyor USV fired two Lockheed Martin JAGM missiles off Hawaii during RIMPAC 2026, the first live launch from one of the company's wind-p...
- Elbit-Serbia Joint UAV Factory To Open Near Belgrade In September — — Serbia and Israel's Elbit Systems will inaugurate a majority Elbit-owned UAV manufacturing plant in the Šimanovci industrial zone between September 15...
- Ondas' Mistral Wins $50M+ U.S. Army Order For Lethal Unmanned Systems — — Ondas' defense prime Mistral has secured an additional $50M+ delivery order under the U.S. Army's $982M Lethal Unmanned Systems IDIQ, pushing Mistral'...
- AVIC's Fengxing-001 Humanoid Robot Takes On Aircraft Ops At WRC 2026 — — China's state aerospace giant AVIC debuted the Fengxing-001, a 1.8-meter humanoid built to handle aircraft maintenance, missile loading and even simul...
- AeroVironment To Build UAS And Counter-Drone Plant In Greece Via AV Eagle JV — — AeroVironment will manufacture unmanned aircraft, loitering munitions and counter-UAS systems in Greece through AV Eagle, a majority-owned joint ventu...
- Castelion Locks In $1B Series C At $13B To Mass-Produce Blackbeard Hypersonic Missiles — — California defense-tech startup Castelion has raised a $1 billion Series C at a $13 billion valuation to scale production of its low-cost Blackbeard h...
- Viasat Picks Rocket Lab to Build GEO Satellite for Space Force PTS-G — — Viasat has selected Rocket Lab to build the satellite bus for a mini-GEO spacecraft in the U.S. Space Force's Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global program...
- Rocket Lab Onboarded to Space Force's $981M NITE-STAR Contract — — Rocket Lab has joined the U.S. Space Force's NITE-STAR IDIQ vehicle, opening the door for the company to bid on task orders in a $981 million program...