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Framework agreements and multiyear procurement mechanics between the U.S. government and prime and sub-tier contractors.
REGENT Craft won another $5 million from the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, bringing its Seaglider deal to $19.25 million. Part of the new phase pays to fit the electric craft into how Marines command operations, while its advertised top speed is still a design target.
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Digital Force Technologies won a $500 million IDIQ from Joint Interagency Task Force 401 for counter-drone systems run by its SeraphimOS edge software. By DFT's account the software classifies threats on its own, so base-defense teams end up trusting its judgement over any one sensor's.
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Boeing won the Navy's $20 billion F/A-XX contract and now holds both US sixth-generation fighter programs. Investors have to judge whether a company still repairing its jetliner and space programs can build two new fighters on cost and on schedule.
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South Korea's arms makers still face a 50% Pentagon bid penalty despite Seoul's $350 billion US pledge, in a $340 billion market where they hold 0.3%. The investment can support Korean production in America, but without a reciprocal procurement pact little of the benefit reaches the smaller Korean suppliers behind it.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced AUTOWARCOM, a four-star command for autonomous and robotic warfare with "service-like authorities" he did not define. Defense suppliers now have a command to plan around before anyone has said whether it will hold money or sign contracts.
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JIATF-401, the US counter-drone task force, announced enterprise contracts with a combined ceiling of nearly $7 billion for a mix of technologies. The choice of which system to field now falls to the units and agencies that will order through them.
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Dario Amodei has his first one-on-one with Trump on Sunday as Anthropic readies an expected IPO under a Pentagon blacklist a court upheld 2-1. A dinner can ease the feud with the president, but the ban on military use of Claude stays with the courts and the Pentagon.
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Business Insider tracked a Tekever AR3 from a Welsh airfield to a Ukrainian artillery reconnaissance brigade. The outbound logistics are the easy part; the feedback leg is the product.
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Admiral Daryl Caudle says the service will field containerized lasers on ships it already has while designing power, cooling and optics into future hulls, and he is leaving the beam-combining architecture to industry.
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Vox, citing The Intercept, says the agreement OpenAI signed with the Pentagon asks for national security models with minimal refusal rates, a standard Anthropic declined at the cost of a major government deal.
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South Korean contractors say the Agency for Defense Development now manages programs instead of researching. Its parent buyer audited it for three months, found 21 problems, and says it used the exercise to examine ADD's role.
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Reporters covered nearly 600 of the 800 towers the government says are operating, and they had to assemble the map themselves from outside sources. Death records follow no shared protocol, so their count of more than 1,050 deaths nearby is a floor.
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Seoul plans to pick one of two bidders in October for a domestically built long-range air-to-air missile that will not reach the KF-21 until the late 2030s. The winner takes the seeker and ramjet work with it.
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Brig. Gen. Terry Tillis said 1,000 of the roughly 2,000 drones at the Germany exercise were consumable. The Pentagon's Drone Dominance program is spending $1 billion on at least 200,000 drones through 2027.
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Perseus says each Mk-III costs about $2,500 to build, a fortieth of the price of the missiles militaries have fired at cheap drones. The figure a buyer writing a requirement needs is the cost per interception.
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Justin Fanelli, the Navy's chief technology officer, says the service is leaning on private capital to carry companies to maturity and stepping in as a buyer once the product works. He is putting a fresh priorities list in front of investors first.
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Lockheed Martin handed over the first of Germany's 35 aircraft in Fort Worth on September 18. Pilot training starts in Arkansas this fall, and the program reaches full operational capability in 2029, a year before the Tornado nuclear mission has to transfer.
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Restarting C-17 production begins with finding out what tooling survived, and the only public cost estimate for a stop-and-restart dates to 2006. The cheap alternative, better maintenance on 220 airframes, buys back a handful of jets.
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Col. Gregory Merkl says the Army has fielded 10,000 drones and is receiving 30,000 more, enough for every squad, while qualified pilots reach only platoon level. The unit that concentrated that expertise is being phased out.
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The officers running Norway's Ukrainian training pipeline say Western peacetime procurement cannot hold a wartime tempo. Their evidence is a camp cleared out of Polish forest in months and a drone update that takes six.
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