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The U.S. Army recently awarded aerospace company Boeing a $324 million contract for six CH-47F Block II Chinook helicopters. This increases the number of CH-47F Block II aircraft under contract to 24.
“Consistent production awards reflect the Army’s confidence in the CH-47F Block II as a... Read More »
Marine Corps Installations Command (MCICOM) awarded a Pennsylvania nonprofit organization specializing in applied scientific research and development professional services, a $21 million contract to provide facility-related control systems cyber services in the Marine Corps Installations Pacific... Read More »
The U.S. government recently awarded global defense technology company Lockheed Martin a $4.7 billion, multibillion-dollar contract to continue critical accelerated production of PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE).
Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will be able to accelerate production... Read More »
The U.S. Department of War said antisubmarine warfare training, Exercise Sea Dragon 2026, was successfully concluded at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam recently.
The exercise saw two Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft assigned to Patrol and Reconnaissance Squadrons 4 and 45 were joined by a... Read More »
Boeing and the U.S. Department of War (DOW) said on April 1 they reached a seven-year framework agreement to triple production of PAC-3 missile seekers, a move officials say will significantly expand air and missile defense capabilities for U.S. and allied forces worldwide.
The agreement, which... Read More »
Textron Systems Corporation on Wednesday announced it has completed the evaluation period for its Cottonmouth prototype for the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) program for the U.S. Marine Corps.
The prototype vehicle evaluations included tests of land mobility, lethality and ocean swim... Read More »
Lockheed Martin, a global defense technology company, recently opened a facility in Dallas that will streamline the development, testing and prototype production of next-generation systems and solutions for U.S. government customers.
The Rapid Fielding Center is integrated with the manufacturing... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense, in partnership with defense contractors BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin, will quadruple the production of seekers for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor.
Under the terms of the agreement, BAE Systems will guarantee the component is... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Defense and Arizona-based Honeywell Aerospace, a diversified technology and manufacturing company, recently partnered to create a framework to increase production of critical components for the ammunitions stockpile.
Honeywell Aerospace will accelerate the delivery of... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently transitioned to the U.S. Army an autonomous flight system. DARPA transitioned an experimental, fly-by-wire H-60Mx Black Hawk, equipped with the DARPA-funded Sikorsky MATRIX autonomy suite to the Army’s Project Manager for Utility... Read More »
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the first AH-1Z and UH-1Y aircraft upgrades under the U.S. Marine Corps’ Structural and Power Improvements for NextGen Effects (SPINE) program.
The program is part of the H-1 program’s modernization plan to... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging U.S. organizations to harden their endpoint management system configurations after a cyberattack on Stryker Corporation.
CISA said on March 11, Stryker was the victim of a cyberattack targeting their endpoint management system which... Read More »
RTX’s Raytheon announced recently it had completed a 26,000-square-foot expansion of its Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility near Huntsville, Ala.
The $115 million investment will increase the facility’s integration and delivery capacity by more than 50 percent and will grow the... Read More »
Texas-based Bell Textron, an aerospace and defense company, recently completed the critical design review stage of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane program and received an X-Plane designation.
The designation... Read More »
Paris-based Qevlar AI, a computer and network security company, recently raised $30 million in funding for its autonomous AI SOC platform.
The company will use the funding to turn alert investigations into security insights that will help security operations centers (SOCs) strengthen their... Read More »
The U.S. Department of the Air Force and Virginia-based Northrop Grumman Corp., an aerospace and defense company, recently reached an agreement to expand production capacity of the B-21 Raider.
The B-21 Raider is a stealth bomber designed to operate in the most contested environments and to hold... Read More »
A new report from exploit intelligence company VulnCheck separates real-world exploitation trends and attacker behavior from theoretical ones.
The report, the 2026 VulnCheck Exploit Intelligence Report (VEIR), offers a first-of-its-kind analysis of those trends, along with an inaugural list of... Read More »
The U.S. Army recently submitted a $186 million delivery order with Virginia-based AeroVironment, an autonomous systems and precision strike solutions provider, for the Switchblade 600 Block 2 and Switchblade 300 Block 20 explosively formed penetrator (EFP) loitering munition systems.
The... Read More »
Aerospace and defense company Ursa Major announced the launch of its new HAVOC Missile System – a medium-range missile with hypersonic capabilities designed for rapid production and scalability.
The HAVOC system has complete hypersonic capabilities, officials with the company said, which will... Read More »
The U.S. Army awarded Virginia-based BAE Systems, a defense and space manufacturing company, a more than $500 million contract in December to produce additional M109A7 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers and M992A3 Ammunition Carriers.
The order will boost the Army's ability to meet critical... Read More »
Cybersecurity platform Astelia announced it has raised $35 million in funding to use artificial intelligence to expose real risks to organizations.
Company officials said Astelia uses a deep analysis of clients’ real environments via AI to map its network topology, segmentation and security... Read More »
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will host the DARPA Lift Challenge from Aug. 2-9 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. The public can attend for free.
The challenge is a prize competition to incentivize the... Read More »
The integration of CrowdStrike Falcon Shield with the Qualtrics Platform will bring greater visibility and automated protections to customers, the companies stated.
The new integration connects the two products to provide organizations with real-time visibility and automated protections for... Read More »
The U.S. Navy announced it had approved Raytheon’s StormBreaker smart weapon for use on its F/A-18-E/F Super Hornet strike fighter fleet.
Officials said the StormBreaker is the only operational smart weapon that can engage both moving and stationary targets in fair and adverse weather... Read More »
The Air Force Research Laboratory recently awarded Raytheon, a Virginia-based defense solutions company, a contract to develop a domestic production capability for thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) wafers.
TFLN is a material used in artificial intelligence and computing technologies, data... Read More »
American Systems, the McLean, Va.-based information engineering company, announced recently it had been awarded a $172 million contract to continue its support to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division’s Demonstration and Assessment Team (DAT).
The company said the contract... Read More »
A new report from the VIPRE Security Group finds that cybercriminals are using trust and urgency to continue to ensnare victims in fraud schemes.
The report, Q4 2025 Email Threat Trends Report, looked at 1.5 billion emails and 500,000 spam messages to identify the trends in security threats for... Read More »
U.S. Department of Defense recently invited 25 vendors to compete in phase one of the Drone Dominance Program.
The program is an acquisition reform effort designed to rapidly field low cost, unmanned one-way attack drones at scale as part of strengthening the arsenal.
"Drone dominance is a... Read More »
The U.S. government recently awarded Maryland-based Lockheed Martin, a global defense technology company, with a $328.5 million foreign military sales (FMS) contract for the production of IRST21 Legion-ES sensor systems.
IRST21 is Lockheed Martin’s next-generation infrared search-and-track... Read More »
RTX’s Raytheon announced Monday it had been selected by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop advanced maritime sensing and targeting systems.
Under the DARPA contract, Raytheon’s Advanced Technology team will design, build and demonstrate a system that will help... Read More »
Lockheed Martin announced it had signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense to quadruple its production of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors from 96 to 400 per year.
The announcement builds on the first-of-its-kind agreement signed between Lockheed and... Read More »
Security control testing company Scythe and AI runtime assurance company Starseer announced a strategic partnership recently that would help organizations defend themselves against AI-driven cyber-attacks.
The companies said the partnership will combine their spheres of expertise in order to... Read More »
PG&E Corporation joined Lockheed Martin, Salesforce, and Wells Fargo recently in announcing the launch of Emberpoint LLC, a next-generation wildfire solution.
Officials said Emberpoint will help first responders detect, prevent and fight wildfires, using artificial intelligence, autonomous... Read More »
According to a new report from the World Economic Forum, the increasing complexity of the cyber landscape creates significant implications for organizations and world nations.
The report, Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025, found that the complexity stems from the rapid growth of emerging... Read More »
Virginia-based MITRE Corp., a not-for-profit research and development organization, recently introduced a cybersecurity framework designed to protect the embedded systems that power critical infrastructure and defense technologies. It was developed in collaboration with the Air Force’s Cyber... Read More »
