Aerospace
The Army intends to buy five contractor-flown ISR jets and take ownership by November 2027, covering a deep-sensing shortfall after it cut planned HADES production from as many as 14 aircraft to six.
Aerospace
Lockheed Martin debuted PAC-3 Edge, an in-house seeker and multi-pulse motor upgrade designed to counter hypersonic threats while reusing the Patriot production base.
Aerospace
YFQ-48A Talon Blue flew itself end to end at Mojave, 15 months after the aircraft was conceived. Northrop is betting a self-funded demonstrator can win what its pricey Increment 1 bid could not.
Aerospace
The Air Force expanded Scale AI's E-4C contract to $44.3 million, putting agentic software on the next nuclear command jet as Sierra Nevada converts 747-8s into flying command posts.
Naval
The Navy awarded Raytheon a $24.4 billion multi-year pact for SM-6 interceptors, testing whether factory lines can surge past 500 missiles a year amid budget gridlock.
Aerospace
The Navy's F/A-XX award hands Boeing both of the Pentagon's sixth-generation fighter lines, shutting out Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman while tying St. Louis to two combat aircraft programs at once.
Aerospace
Raytheon locked in a multi-year AMRAAM contract worth up to $20.7 billion, converting a February pledge of at least 1,900 missiles a year into factory-floor certainty through June 2033.
Funding
Tekever closed a $580 million Series D at a $6.4 billion valuation, backing AR5 production for the British Army's Project CORVUS and a combat-proven European drone line.
Electronics
The Air Force just put Northrop Grumman's internal IVEWS jammer into low-rate production. The suite lets F-16 Wild Weasels hunt enemy radars without hanging a pod or blinding their own AESA.
Aerospace
The Space Force granted SpaceX exclusive access to classified Vector Covariance Messages while Starlink offers free collision screening. Competing with that stack is nearly impossible.
Naval
The Navy placed a production order of up to $200 million with Castelion for Blackbeard, a sub-$500,000 hypersonic moving from Super Hornet tests toward serial rounds and 2027 early operational capability.
Aerospace
A $1.21 billion Army IDIQ puts Lockheed Martin's PrSM Increment 2 on HIMARS, giving land batteries a seeker that can hunt moving ships across the First Island Chain.