Salt Lake City, Utah-based L3Harris Technologies announced it had received an undefinitized contract modification award from the U.S. Navy for the next phase of the Next Generation Jammer Low Bank... Read More »
Biosynthesis company Antheia announced it has received a conditional commitment of up to $80 million in a long-term loan from the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) under the U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the U.S. Department of War. The conditional... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Justice announced it had partnered with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshalls service and other law enforcement offices to conclude “Operation Show Me Justice.” The DOJ-sponsored operation saw the arrests of 435 dangerous... Read More »
The U.S. Coast Guard announced that its cutter, Tampa, recently offloaded an estimated 29,600 pounds of cocaine and 3,355 pounds of marijuana in Port Everglades. The drug seizure, estimated to be worth $226.7 million, was the result of six interdictions in international waters in the Eastern... Read More »
U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) are urging the White House to take a more comprehensive approach to AI safety and cybersecurity threats posed by AI technology. In a letter to Jay Clayton, director of National Intelligence and chair of the White House Task Force on Super... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and the Pentagon announced the Bath Iron Works (BIW) production facility has been certified, clearing the way for the facility to be used for the production of a guided missile destroyer. Collins, chair of the Appropriations Committee, said she has long advocated... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joined the other intelligence agencies across the globe to issue a joint Cybersecurity Advisory warning about a China-based company enabling threat actors to target critical infrastructure sectors worldwide. According to the warning,... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Strategic Capital recently provided North Carolina-based Wolfspeed, a silicon carbide (SiC) technologies company, with a conditional loan commitment letter for up to $1.5 billion of long-term financing. Under the terms of the loan commitment,... Read More »
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan’s Unmanned Air Warfare Center recently successfully tested an unmanned aerial refueler MQ-25A Stingray more than 2,100 miles away. The Stingray was located at a Boeing facility in Illinois while the ship was in the … Read More
A temporary flight restriction for drones along the southern U.S. border went in effect on Friday. The restriction bars unauthorized drone activity up to 400 feet above the ground and one nautical mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Federal … Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently announced an agreement that expands the Smaller War Plants Commission (SWPC) to provide access to strategic capital for small businesses in the defense industrial base. The agreement … Read More
Army vice chief of staff and Army acting chief of staff Gen. Christopher LaNeve recently selected U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Command for redesignation as U.S. Army Futures and Autonomous Systems Command (FASCOM). The move is in response to Acting … Read More
The U.S. Army recently selected Northrop Grumman to expand the capabilities of the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), a system that delivers fire control quality data and battle management, by adding a new variant designed to increase the system’s survivability … Read More
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, introduced the Nomad 100 fast pack on Monday. The pack is a containerized vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aerial system kit designed to help customers rapidly deploy autonomous air capability. The fast pack was designed … Read More
The Department of Defense and the Missile Defense Agency recently awarded defense solutions company Raytheon a five-year procurement contract to produce Standard Missile–3 Block IB (SM-3 Blk IB) interceptors. The contract includes two additional option years, valued up to $6.3 … Read More
The Department of Defense announced on Monday that it has selected the directed-energy systems it will use to test counter drones as part of a pilot program led by the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF-401). The program will evaluate … Read More
