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Air Force Sets December Emerald Flag As CCA Drones' First Live Kill-Chain Test — Sep 18, 2026 — The US Air Force will fly its YFQ-42A and YFQ-44A collaborative combat aircraft at Emerald Flag in December, the first end-to-end live kill chain with...IDF to launch unmanned systems and AI branch by December — Sep 16, 2026 — Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir told commanders that Israel's military will stand up a dedicated branch for robotics, drones and AI-driven warfare by Hanukk...Pentagon Adds ChatGPT Mil And Grok For Government To GenAI.mil Portal — Sep 1, 2026 — The DoD folded OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government into its GenAI.mil portal, giving 3M personnel access to three frontier models.XTEND X-Strike Lethality Package Cleared Into Pentagon Drone Dominance Program — Aug 29, 2026 — 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...Elbit-Serbia Joint UAV Factory To Open Near Belgrade In September — Aug 23, 2026 — Serbia and Israel's Elbit Systems will inaugurate a majority Elbit-owned UAV manufacturing plant in the Šimanovci industrial zone between September 15...Rheinmetall And Space Norway Sign MoU To Fuse X-Band And C-Band SAR For NATO — Aug 17, 2026 — Germany's Rheinmetall and Norway's state satellite operator will pair X-band and C-band SAR data to build a multi-tiered maritime domain awareness pic...Hanwha Wins South Korea's First Military UGV Mass-Production Deal — Aug 16, 2026 — South Korea has awarded Hanwha Aerospace its first mass-production contract for a multipurpose military robot, selecting the Arion-SMET UGV for the Ar...Pentagon Backs PDW With Conditional $820M Loan To Rebuild U.S. Drone Supply Chain — Aug 3, 2026 — The Office of Strategic Capital committed a conditional $820M loan to Performance Drone Works to spin up high-volume domestic manufacturing of Group 1...AeroVironment Bags $117M U.S. Army Order For 82 P550 eVTOL Recon Drones — Jul 31, 2026 — AeroVironment landed a $117.3M U.S. Army contract on July 20 for 82 P550 electric VTOL drones, the initial full-rate procurement for the Army's Long R...Red Cat Wins $2.49M U.S. Air Force Black Widow Drone Order — Jul 30, 2026 — Red Cat Holdings said its Teal Drones subsidiary received a $2.49M firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force Security Forces Center to evaluat...L3Harris And Shield AI Complete First Autonomous DiSCO+Hivemind EW Flight Test — Jul 26, 2026 — In a U.S. Army-supported live flight test, L3Harris's DiSCO battle-management system and Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software teamed on the Green Wo...Cathedral Raises $160M At $1.4B As Ex-DOGE Team Builds AI Military Cyber Startup — Jul 23, 2026 — Stealth NYC military cybersecurity startup Cathedral, founded by four former DOGE engineers, has raised $160M at a $1.4B valuation from Andreessen Hor...Embraer Expands C-390 Millennium Training For Sweden And Austria — Jul 21, 2026 — Embraer will supply Sweden with a Level D full-flight simulator, a Rheinmetall-built cargo handling trainer and CBT for the C-390 Millennium, while Au...Canada Joins GCAP as First Observer at Farnborough 2026 — Jul 21, 2026 — Canada becomes GCAP's first official observer at Farnborough 2026, opening the UK-Italy-Japan sixth-generation Tempest fighter program to Ottawa's eng...UK, Italy And Japan Sign £4.6B GCAP Contract With Edgewing For Sixth-Gen Fighter — Jul 19, 2026 — The trilateral GCAP Agency has awarded Edgewing a £4.6 billion 18-month development contract, funding the next design and assessment phase of the Temp...Maris-Tech Bags Repeat Defense Orders For Edge-AI Observation Payloads — Jul 16, 2026 — Israeli defense electronics firm Maris-Tech has booked follow-on orders from an existing military customer for its edge-AI video and observation subsy...Neros Wins Up To $500M U.S. Army FPV Drone Contract — Jul 16, 2026 — Neros Technologies has landed a Defense Department contract worth up to $500 million to supply Archer first-person-view drones to the U.S. Army — one...US Navy Awards ReconCraft $24.96M For Autonomous Low-Profile Vessels — Jul 15, 2026 — ReconCraft won a $24.96 million U.S. Navy contract to build autonomous low-profile vessels, delivering hard-to-detect uncrewed surface craft through 2...US Navy Extends General Dynamics MEDUSA Robotic Submarine Program — Jul 15, 2026 — The U.S. Navy exercised a $13.97 million contract modification with General Dynamics Mission Systems on July 6, extending development of the MEDUSA to...Comand AI Raises €32M Series A to Scale Prevail Battlefield Platform — Jul 9, 2026 — French defence software startup Comand AI closed a €32 million ($34.6M) Series A led by Blossom Capital, with strategic investment from Saab, to scale...