Epic Fury Aircraft Losses Expose the Gap Between Replacement Funding and Military Readiness
Reported aircraft losses expose pressures on repair capacity, production and support fleets, making recovery timelines central to U.S. military readiness.
PDW Looks to Bring Ukrainian Battlefield Technology Into American Production
Performance Drone Works is pursuing two partnerships intended to bring Ukrainian defense technology into American evaluation, integration and potential manufacturing. One memorandum of understanding, signed with…
Raytheon Tests Faster Coyote Interceptors as Counter-Drone Requirements Intensify
Raytheon has completed three successful developmental tests of upgrades to its Coyote counter-drone interceptor, advancing the program from concept to testing in 15 months. The company-funded…
Fortem and MBDA Expand Counter-Drone Defense With Net Capture and Armed Interceptors
Fortem and MBDA expand their counter-drone partnership with net-capture and armed interceptors designed to operate within existing air-defense networks.
L3Harris’s $250 Million Rocket Motor Award Puts the Ammunition Buildout on the Factory Floor
L3Harris’s $250 million GMLRS propulsion award connects ammunition demand with factory expansion, putting delivery capacity and manufacturing execution in focus.
Why Defense Stocks Are Falling While the World Is Running Short of Ammunition
There is an extraordinary contradiction in the global defense industry. The United States and its allies are struggling to replenish depleted ammunition inventories, missile interceptors…
Smart Shooter Wins Up to $150 Million U.S. Counter-Drone Contract for SMASH Systems
Smart Shooter has secured a potentially significant expansion of its U.S. defense business after receiving a 36-month, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for its SMASH counter-drone fire…
Aerial Refueling Became the Main Instrument of US Iran Policy, and Israel the Safest Place to Base It
Refueling aircraft are now the most reliable indicator of what Washington intends to do about Iran, and the most useful lever it holds over how…
Ondas (ONDS) Q2 2026: The Full-Year Guide Requires a $256 Million Fourth Quarter
Ondas reported record second-quarter revenue of $83.8 million on August 13, up 67% sequentially from $50.1 million and more than thirteen times the $6.3 million…
Trump’s Steam Catapult Order Targets a Real Ford-Class Failure With the Wrong Fix
A presidential memorandum signed on August 13 directs the Navy to strip electromagnetic launch and the Advanced Weapons Elevators out of future Ford-class aircraft carriers…
Cloudflare for Government Achieves FedRAMP Class D (High), Commits to DoD IL4 Pursuit
Cloudflare announced on August 10 that Cloudflare for Government has achieved FedRAMP Class D (High) certified status, with the National Institute of Standards and Technology…
IonQ (IONQ) DARPA Clock Award: $28 Million Contracted, $300,000 Per Clock in the Option
The clarification is more useful than the announcement it clarifies. IonQ has been awarded $28 million, not $58 million. The $28 million is a modification…
Aurelius Systems Raises $40M to Scale Autonomous Counter-Drone Defense
Aurelius Systems has secured $40 million in Series A funding to accelerate the development and production of its autonomous counter-drone platform, underscoring growing investor confidence…
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…