Starfighters Space Joins the Exos Aerospace Team Bidding for Air Force AEDC Test Infrastructure Work With Mach 2 F-104 Jets
Starfighters Space announced on November 10 that it has joined a team led by Exos Aerospace Systems & Technologies to pursue work through the US…
BigBear.ai (BBAI) Wins Europe-Wide ECAC Certification for Pangiam AI Baggage Screening
BigBear.ai announced on November 10 that its Pangiam Threat Detection software has received European Civil Aviation Conference certification for automated prohibited items detection in cabin…
Astronics (ATRO) Posts Record Operating Income on 28 Percent Sales Growth as Aerospace Margins Reach 23 Percent
Astronics reported third-quarter 2026 results on November 10, and almost every line set a record. Sales rose 28.5% to $271.7 million. Operating income roughly doubled…
Palladyne AI Grows Revenue 895 Percent While Swarmer Books 26 Thousand Dollars and Bets on a Ukrainian Ground Robot Maker
Two small public companies selling autonomy software for drones and robots reported third-quarter results on November 10. Both are trying to grow from software into…
AEVEX (AVEX) Wins an IDIQ With a Ceiling of Nearly 400 Million Dollars for Unmanned Aircraft Systems
AEVEX announced on November 10 that it has won an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of nearly $400 million to supply unmanned…
Rheinmetall ICEYE Picks Manufacturo to Run Its SAR Satellite Line as Electra Wins a 4.7 Million Dollar Air Force Contract and First Graphene Gets a Bigger US Defence Order
Three small defence announcements from November 9 cover three stages of the business: a factory being set up to build satellites at volume, a test…
Japan Picks Rakuten and AST SpaceMobile for J-LEO, a Sovereign Satellite-to-Phone Network Worth About 1 Billion Dollars Over Three Years
Japan has chosen a Rakuten proposal for its Japan Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Communications Project, known as J-LEO, and Rakuten and AST SpaceMobile are forming a…
NASA Picks Astranis for a 264 Million Dollar TDRS Relay Replacement as Stoke Space Gets Room for a Second Cape Pad
Two space announcements landed on November 6 that look unrelated. One is about relaying data from orbit, the other about launch pads in Florida. Read…
CesiumAstro Raises $730 Million at Above $4.5 Billion to Run Its Own 737-Satellite Constellation
CesiumAstro closed a $730 million Series D on November 5, valuing the Austin company at more than $4.5 billion. Janus Henderson led. Insight Partners, Sands…
Defense Demand Index Falls to 12 Slack as the October Contract Lull Meets a Defense Stock Slide
The Defense Demand Index reads 12.0, Slack, its lowest level. October contract awards are in their usual fiscal-year-start trough under a stopgap, while defense stocks trail the S&P 500 by 14 points over a quarter.
TOTE Picks Hanwha Philly Shipyard as First Builder Under Navy Medium Landing Ship Deal Worth $269 Million
TOTE Services chose Hanwha Defense USA to build one Medium Landing Ship for $269 million, the first yard pick under the Navy’s new vessel construction manager model.
Watchtower Labs and Assail Federal Show Defense Tech Money Chasing Faster Military Planning and Cyber Testing
Watchtower Labs raised a $35 million seed for AI logistics planning and Assail launched a federal unit for autonomous attack testing, as investors pay for military speed.
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…