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A branch of the U.S. armed forces specializing in amphibious and expeditionary warfare, increasingly testing drones, robotics, and AI tools for combat use.
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US military will put its NMESIS anti-ship missile system on Yonaguni, about 62 miles from Taiwan, during the Oct 19-29 Keen Sword exercise. Teams buying from Taiwanese suppliers should log it as one step in the island-chain buildup and hold sourcing changes until there are signs the hardware stays.
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Washington cut its flagship Korea exercise by 55% and killed an amphibious drill, citing Iran force constraints. Trump also cited Seoul's Iran policy. Both cannot be the binding reason.
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Bullfrog uses computer vision to hold the aim while a gun already in service does the firing. ACS is opening an Austin plant to build more of them for the Army, the Navy and now the Marine Corps.
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American Rheinmetall's $7.28 million award covers 12 Mission Master SP vehicles plus the training and engineering around them, all bound for a Marine Corps lab evaluation. Only five amphibious kits come with them.
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Lenders price collateral and contracted cash rather than addressable markets, which makes the split the story here, because REGENT has $15M of contracted Marine Corps work sitting behind $120M of borrowing and a $9bn pre-order book that pays nobody yet.
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Accrete's Argus goes to the Marine Corps without competition, on the back of three earlier defense footholds. The features are the pitch. The paper trail is the moat.
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Kratos' XQ-58A flew electronic warfare with Marine F-35s in April and changed hands between two separate ground control systems mid-mission. The second part is the harder problem.
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Smack Technologies' second raise of 2026 and Scale AI's fivefold contract jump point the same way: the buyer is paying for software in the field on a stopwatch, not for demos.
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