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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- FCC Labels Drone Light Shows Military-Grade As Comments Close Sept. 2 — — FCC Public Notice DA 26-758 puts multi-drone light shows inside a new military-grade swarm category, threatening the Korean-built UVify IFO fleets tha...
- 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'...
- 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...
- XTEND Wins Up To $15M NATO Deal Amid Shift Off Chinese Drones — — Israeli-American AI drone maker XTEND signed a multi-year contract worth up to $15 million with a European NATO member's Ministry of Defense, with $4....
- US Army Advances Five Vendors To Manufacturing After SRR Drone Fly-Off — — Parrot, Skydio, Skycutter, Teal Drones and Vantage Robotics were picked for manufacturing-readiness assessments after the Army's platoon-level Short R...
- HII's Watcher sUSV Wins DIU Nod, Advances Toward Production — — DIU has officially recognised successful completion of the PRIME prototype programme for HII's Watcher small USV, built with MetalCraft Marine on the...
- Pentagon Hands Palantir Up To $244M Sole-Source In Feinberg Memo — — A Defense Department memo directs agencies to spend as much as $243.9M on Palantir software with no competition through March 2027 — and hunt for more...
- Rocket Lab Opens Munich Subsidiary To Anchor European Sovereign Space Push — — Rocket Lab Corp. has formally established Rocket Lab Germany GmbH in Munich, using the Mynaric acquisition as a launchpad for European satellite manuf...
- Trump Slaps 100% Tariff On Heavy Drones In Section 232 Push To Break China Dependence — — President Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation Thursday imposing 100% tariffs on heavy industrial and military-grade drones and 25% on smaller UAS,...