Antares Raises $470 Million to Field Nuclear Microreactors on U.S. Military Bases by 2028
Antares announced a $470 million Series C on July 27, structured as $370 million in equity and $100 million in debt, co-led by Paradigm and…
L3Harris Signs Seven-Year Frameworks to Quadruple THAAD Propulsion and Nearly Triple PAC-3 MSE Motor Output
L3Harris announced two framework agreements within the same hour on July 27, both signed with the Department of War and prime contractor Lockheed Martin, both…
Anduril’s $100 Billion Talks Assume a Capability Gap the UK and US Just Tried to Measure
I’m generally skeptical of defense-tech valuations that double in a matter of months, because most of them are pricing in a procurement win that hasn’t…
Arkenstone Defense Emerges From Stealth With $35 Million to Fix Pentagon’s Commercial Onboarding Problem
Arkenstone Defense has come out of stealth with $35 million in seed funding aimed at a problem that has quietly throttled the Pentagon’s push for…
Farnborough International Airshow from 20 to 24 July 2026 at the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre in Hampshire, UK
Farnborough International Airshow has confirmed a second wave of speakers for its Aerospace Global Forum (AGF) and Space Zone Theatre programmes, bringing together senior leaders…
NATO to Begin Formal Negotiations with Saab for Up to Ten GlobalEye AEW&C Aircraft
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced at the NATO summit in Ankara, Türkiye, that the Alliance will open formal negotiations with Saab over the potential…
SES Space & Defense Secures Five-Year Space Force Satellite Services Contract
SES’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SES Space & Defense, has won a five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to deliver…
Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall Sign MOU for European ATACMS Co-Production
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Rheinmetall have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish co-production of ATACMS missiles in Europe, announced during the NATO Summit…
Advancing Rapid Defense Innovation Symposium (ARDIS) 2026, September 15-16, 2026, Ridgecrest, CA
The Advancing Rapid Defense Innovation Symposium (ARDIS) returns in 2026, bringing senior military strategists, government officials, defense and technology executives, researchers, investors, and national security…
Ondas (ONDS) Acquires Cyberhawk for $125 Million, Extending Its Defense Autonomy Platform Into Critical Infrastructure
On June 18, 2026, Ondas Inc. (Nasdaq: ONDS) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Cyberhawk Holdings Limited for approximately $125 million, funded roughly 95% in…
Teledyne FLIR Defense Selected by U.S. Army for LASSO Loitering Munition Program
Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has secured a significant win with the U.S. Army selecting its Rogue™ 1 loitering munition system for…
Heaviside Industries Raises $28M to Push Autonomous Warfare Into Its Next Phase
The emergence of Heaviside Industries from stealth with a $28 million Series A isn’t just another defense-tech funding announcement—it’s a pretty clear signal of where…
Israel Approves F-35 and F-15IA Squadron Purchases Worth Tens of Billions
Israel’s Ministerial Committee on Defense Procurement has approved the simultaneous acquisition of F-35 and F-15IA aircraft in quantities sufficient to form two new fighter squadrons,…
DEFSEC Pushes Battlefield Awareness Forward with BLISS Deployment to Yuma
There’s something quietly significant about a shipment like this—two compact systems heading into the desert at Yuma Test Center doesn’t sound dramatic on the surface,…
Farnborough International Airshow 2026, July 20–24, Farnborough, England
Farnborough International Airshow 2026 has announced the UK Government’s biggest participation in the event’s history, underlining the show’s growing strategic importance as a meeting point…
6K Energy and CRG Defense Form Seven-Year Pact to Build U.S. Defense Battery Supply Chain
6K Energy and CRG Defense have announced a strategic seven-year collaboration aimed at establishing a secure domestic battery supply chain for U.S. defense and other…
Boeing MQ-25A Stingray First Operational Flight Advances U.S. Navy Carrier Aviation
MQ-25 Stingray First Flight: The Navy’s Unmanned Future Takes Off Boeing and the United States Navy have successfully completed the first test flight of an…
L3Harris Secures $1 Billion Pentagon-Style Backing Ahead of Missile Solutions IPO
L3Harris Technologies has taken a major step in reshaping its defense portfolio, closing a $1 billion strategic investment from the Department of War into its…
DFEN Unwinds the War Premium
The Direxion Daily Aerospace & Defense Bull 3X ETF is doing exactly what a 3x leveraged vehicle is built to do when the narrative that…
The Industrial Gap Behind Europe’s Rearmament Numbers
Europe’s defense budgets have nearly doubled in four years. Spending rose from 218 billion euros in 2021 to a projected 392 billion euros in 2025.…
WiFi in the Military: Convenience Meets a Very Different Kind of Reality
The idea of WiFi in a military context feels slightly off at first, almost too civilian, too casual. We tend to associate wireless networks with…
ATARS Meets the M-346: Why Leonardo and Red 6 May Be Rewriting the Logic of Fighter Training
Leonardo’s decision to integrate Red 6’s Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality System, or ATARS, into the M-346 matters because it pushes military flight training closer to…
Dark Eagle: The U.S. Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, Brief Overview
The U.S. Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, known as Dark Eagle, is a ground-launched system designed to strike high-value and time-sensitive targets at distances of roughly…
The Army Just Launched a Solicitation for a Heavier ISV — Here’s What We Know
On March 30, 2026, the Army released a solicitation for a heavier ISV with exportable power for on-the-move command and control. Up to three vendors could win contracts for 606 ISV-H vehicles. Here’s what’s known and what’s still open.