Deepnight Wins Army OTA Under DUTCH Program to Bring AI Night Vision Processing to Cheap Thermal Sensors
Deepnight, a San Francisco startup that does night vision with AI instead of image intensifier tubes, has won a US Army Other Transaction Agreement to…
EVIO Turns Its Electric Airliner Batteries Into a Palletized Battery Box for Arctic and Remote Defence Power
EVIO, a Montréal company building a hybrid-electric regional airliner, has introduced a battery storage unit for defence. The Battery Box is the first product in…
Iris Technology Takes OceanSound Investment to Ramp Rad-Hard Satellite Electronics for Missile Warning and Golden Dome
Iris Technology, a maker of electronics for national security space payloads, has taken a strategic investment from private equity firm OceanSound Partners. Terms weren’t disclosed.…
Firehawk Defense Raises $150M+ Series D at Over $1.4B Valuation to Mass-Produce Rocket and Artillery Motors
Firehawk Defense has closed an upsized, oversubscribed Series D of more than $150 million at a valuation above $1.4 billion. Advent and Rochefort Asset Management…
Fairbanks Morse Defense Wins $100M Navy Deal to Keep Ohio and Los Angeles Class Submarines at Sea
The US Navy has awarded Fairbanks Morse Defense a follow-on, sole-source contract worth $99.09 million to overhaul emergency diesel generators on six nuclear submarines. Naval…
FEINDEF 27 Is 94% Booked Seven Months Out as Spain’s Defence Show Grows 46%
FEINDEF 27, Spain’s international defence and security exhibition, has booked 94% of its floor space seven months before opening. The fifth edition runs May 18-20,…
Can Drone Production Scale Without Enough Batteries Motors and Radios
A drone assembly target is only as credible as the components available to support it. Airframes and final assembly attract attention because they are visible,…
USS Zumwalt Has Never Fired in Anger and Now Carries a 21.5 Billion Dollar Hypersonic Bet
Ten years after commissioning, the most expensive destroyer the US Navy ever built has yet to fire a shot in combat. USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) and…
Defense Contracts Roundup: Army Buys Lighter Javelin Launchers, DARPA Funds Terahertz Radar, DHS and NASA Award Support Deals
Four awards crossed the wire this week. One is a production order for a weapon the Army can’t buy fast enough. One is a small…
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…