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A missile system old enough to have fought in Vietnam is getting locked in for at least three more years of service, and the Army has confirmed only one company is allowed to keep it running. The U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama published a presolicitation notice on July 1, 2026, announcing […]View the full article

From New England to Puerto Rico, across the Gulf of America, skipping over the desert to the West Coast…the vast American coastline is littered with closed and abandoned shipyards. They surround us like ghosts haunting the ruins of a once great empire, whispering of what once was. Some have been repurposed so much it would require a national emergency to claw back the waterfront. Others only a bit, and another cohort almost frozen in aspic from the day they were closed. Every time there is a proposal to do something as straightforward as reviving Charleston or something more ambitious like Jan Sramek’s Solano Shipyard, those trying to make forward progress have to swim t…

The U.S. Navy has told the defense industry it wants an alternative to its own primary radar-killing missile, and it wants companies capable of building as many as 600 of them every year. The Naval Air Systems Command, the branch of the Navy responsible for developing and buying naval aircraft and weapons, published a Request […]View the full article

X-Bow Systems said Monday it has delivered more than 1,100 solid rocket motors, a sharp production milestone for a U.S. defense market trying to rebuild a rocket motor supply base that has struggled to keep pace with missile and drone demand. The company did not identify every customer or program tied to the 1,100 motors […]View the full article

Russia’s Ministry of Defense has officially confirmed that its air defenses intercepted a “long-range operational-tactical missile,” adding new weight to OSINT reporting about an unusual high-altitude engagement over Moscow Oblast on June 30. The Russian ministry did not specify where the intercept took place and did not identify the missile type. However, the statement came […]View the full article

Engineers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division and Fleet Readiness Center Southwest built a 3D-printing method that lets sailors repair cracked composite panels on the F/A-18 Super Hornet right at the base where the jet is stationed, and they expect it to cut repair time by roughly 50 percent once it reaches the […]View the full article

A Norwegian defense giant just bet on Ukraine’s homegrown robot army, with KONGSBERG, one of Europe’s largest defense manufacturers, and Ukrainian robotics company DevDroid signing a Memorandum of Understanding on June 30, 2026, in Kyiv that lays groundwork for large-scale, long-term cooperation to produce existing systems and develop new remotely operated combat robots together. The […]View the full article

A two-person engineering firm in a small Colorado town just picked up a $4.3 million contract to help the Air Force answer a question that still sounds like science fiction: can rockets replace cargo planes for getting supplies anywhere on Earth in under two hours? The Department of the Air Force awarded the money to […]View the full article

Northrop Grumman secured a $49 million contract from U.S. Space Systems Command to provide sustainment services for the Joint Tactical Ground Station, a network of mobile satellite ground receivers that give U.S. and allied military commanders real-time warning when an adversary launches a ballistic missile anywhere on Earth. The contract was awarded on a sole-source […]View the full article

Boeing secured a $49.5 million contract from the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center on June 30, 2026, to remanufacture the electronic flight controllers and produce production test equipment that sustain the AGM-86B Air Launched Cruise Missile, the subsonic nuclear-capable cruise missile that has served as one of America’s primary airborne nuclear delivery systems since 1982. […]View the full article

The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $104 million contract on June 26, 2026, to begin procurement of long-lead materials and early engineering work for the F-100 mid-life upgrade of Spain’s Álvaro de Bazán-class frigates, the most capable surface combatants in the Spanish Navy and one of the most combat-proven Aegis frigate designs operating outside […]View the full article

The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a $3 billion contract to produce additional AN/MPQ-64F1 Sentinel A4 radars and provide supporting engineering services, locking in production of the ground-based air surveillance system that serves as the primary airspace watchman for Army air defense units around the world. The contract, awarded through Army Contracting Command at Redstone […]View the full article

Japan, the United Kingdom, and Italy will extend the contract for the Global Combat Air Programme through the end of 2027, after Britain’s delayed defense spending plan created an impasse that had left the three-nation stealth fighter effort operating on temporary bridge funding since April, Nikkei reported. The extension resolves the immediate crisis triggered when […]View the full article

Sweden and Ukraine signed an agreement covering the procurement of fighter jets for Ukraine’s Air Force, with deliveries set to begin in early 2029, Militarnyi reported. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, with Ukraine set to receive not only the aircraft but […]View the full article

Pyka’s autonomous cargo aircraft DropShip flew a 32 km (20-mile) resupply mission entirely without a human pilot from Gulfport to Diamondhead, Mississippi, then executed a precision 91 kg (200 lb) airdrop, as part of the U.S. Army Reserve’s Combat Support Training Exercise within Operation Sentinel Justice, the company announced June 30, 2026. The aircraft also […]View the full article

At 3 a.m. in a contested forward operating base, a patrol thirty kilometres out is taking casualties. They need blood, plasma, and ammunition, not in hours, but in minutes. The aircraft that answers that call launches from a patch of dirt, climbs vertically on four jet turbine engines, pitches forward, and is gone. It returns […]View the full article

Russian investigators have opened criminal cases alleging officials and contractors stole approximately 500 million rubles ($6.4 million) earmarked for constructing naval infrastructure at the home base of Russia’s Caspian Flotilla, the business daily Kommersant reported. The cases, filed under Russia’s criminal code for abuse of authority in fulfilling state defense orders, name Alexander Katser and […]View the full article

Moldova’s Armed Forces will receive more than 100 Senator armored vehicles built by Canadian manufacturer Roshel as part of European Union defense assistance, Militarnyi reported. The procurement will run through the Estonian Centre for Defence Investments under a 2022 to 2025 aid package specifically designed to strengthen the mobility and transport capabilities of Moldova’s military, […]View the full article

One day, and that day may never come, there will be an easy search mechanism for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Until then, the best a humble citizen from the provinces can do is take a low pass, bite a nibble at the most attractive bits, and then head off to digest what you got. Speeches, orders, and policy statements from the Executive Branch are important, but if you really want to drive change or correct error, you have to do it through the legislative branch. Yes, this is not finished and work must be done in the Senate, but let’s take a moment to see what the House has put on the table. I first got a bit too ambitious when I started digging in, and t…

The U.S. Army awarded BAE Systems Land and Armaments a $35 million contract modification on June 30, 2026, for additional production of the general-purpose variant of the Cold Weather All-Terrain Vehicle, the tracked, amphibious troop carrier built to operate where wheeled vehicles simply cannot follow. The Army Contracting Command at Detroit Arsenal, Michigan, made the […]View the full article