Tennessee has launched a bid to host the planned United States Space Academy, proposing a campus at the Coffee County Joint Industrial Park near Tullahoma, minutes from Arnold Air Force Base and about 60 miles (97 km) from Huntsville, Alabama. Gov. Bill Lee announced the bid on Oct. 28 alongside U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and […]

Belgium has started building a new maintenance center for its army’s armored vehicles in Rocourt, near Liège, where a joint venture of FN Herstal, John Cockerill Defense and Thales Belgium will repair and service the Belgian Land Component’s vehicles and their weapons under a 20-year deal. Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken laid the foundation stone […]

Britain will lead development of three new sensor and effects packages for underwater drones under the AUKUS security partnership with the United States and Australia, with the systems due to be available across all three nations’ uncrewed underwater fleets from 2027, the UK Ministry of Defence said on Oct. 27. The three payloads are a […]

The UK Ministry of Defence has hired Astroscale UK as prime contractor for LEDA, a new £15 million (about $20 million) military space program under which the company will build, launch and operate a spacecraft to study how satellites maneuvering close to other spacecraft could be used in orbital warfare, and how to counter them. […]

BAE Systems has completed the first live-fire test of its Adaptable Deck Launcher, a deck-mounted missile launcher that lets U.S. Navy and allied ships carry more Evolved SeaSparrow air defense missiles and reload them at sea with standard shipboard equipment. The company announced the test on Oct. 27 from China Lake, California, home of the […]

Lockheed Martin has broken ground on a factory expansion in Troy, Alabama, that will triple the space it uses to build the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, the U.S. Air Force’s first hypersonic missile to enter production. The company held the groundbreaking for the expansion of its Building P-20 on Oct. 27, the day after […]

X-Bow Systems will build the solid rocket booster that launches CoAspire’s ground-based cruise missile under the U.S. Navy’s CHAOS program, an effort to give allied nations a low-cost weapon for striking ships and land targets. The Albuquerque, New Mexico, company said Tuesday that CoAspire, the prime contractor, selected it to develop and produce the ground-launched […]

Lockheed Martin plans to open a dedicated maintenance facility in Poland for Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, the company announced Tuesday. The PAC-3 Missile Maintenance Facility is being set up in coordination with the U.S. government and will serve NATO allies that operate the interceptors. The site will repair and recertify the missiles. According to the company, […]

The U.S. Army has picked Amazon Web Services and World Wide Technology to help build an autonomous cyber defense system that can find and stop network threats with little human involvement, choosing the two companies on Oct. 23, 2026, for a Project Griffin pilot worth a combined $2.6 million. The U.S. Army said it wants […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has bought one of the largest metal 3D printers on the market, an AMCM M 8K additive manufacturing system, for its new hypersonic payload facility in Odon, Indiana, where the company prepares the experimental test vehicles it flies for the Pentagon’s MACH-TB hypersonic test program. Germany’s EOS, whose AMCM unit […]

An armed, reusable drone that fires 40 mm grenades and 12-gauge shotgun rounds and then flies back to be reloaded has been cleared for purchase and use across the U.S. military, after Skyborne Technologies’ Cerberus MI was added to the U.S. Department of War’s Blue UAS Cleared List, the company announced on Oct. 26, 2026. […]

Aeon Industrial, a Texas company that already makes low-cost drone fuzes in volume, has unveiled the Armory, a planned 140,000-square-foot (13,000-square-meter) factory for missile systems, interceptors, high-voltage fuzes, seekers and other critical components, saying it wants to add production capacity where the U.S. munitions supply chain depends on too few suppliers. The company said the […]

Finnish drone electronics maker Arctic RAVN has secured €2.5 million (about $2.8 million) in convertible loan commitments in five days, passing its €2 million (about $2.2 million) target before it has officially launched a single product, and it plans to use the money to scale up production of the circuit boards that power and steer […]

Spanish drone maker ARMMO Defense Technologies and General Dynamics European Land Systems’ Spanish unit, Santa Bárbara Sistemas, launched and flew ARMMO’s Bandit-X interceptor drone from an ASCOD Heavy Mission Carrier tracked armored vehicle during the ATLAS 26 counter-drone exercise in Huelva, Spain, turning the heavy vehicle into a mobile launcher for drones that hunt down […]

French underwater drone maker SEABER has launched RAVEN, a compact autonomous underwater vehicle for hunting naval mines and surveying the seabed that weighs 13 kg (29 pounds) and can be launched by a single operator, and the company says it will offer performance comparable to high-end conventional mine-hunting drones at about one-third of their price, […]

BLADE, the Ohio-based defense contractor formerly known as HDT Global, has won a contract to continue developing the large version of the Critical Equipment Decontamination System, a transportable system that cleans chemical and biological warfare agents off sensitive equipment used by U.S. special operations forces so the gear can be put back into service instead […]

German defense AI company Helsing on Oct. 26 unveiled Contra, an autonomous, AI-controlled air defense system designed to protect countries against large-scale drone and missile attacks, along with two new interceptor missiles, the jet-powered AD-1 Inferno and the rocket-powered AD-2 Ambush, the company announced. Helsing said Contra fuses data from sensors and weapons into a […]

Israel’s Elbit Systems has won contracts worth about $200 million from an unnamed country in the Asia-Pacific region to supply helicopter targeting sensors, cockpit head-up displays and support for airborne combat training systems, the company announced on Oct. 26. The work will be carried out over up to five years. Elbit did not identify the […]

Ukraine has joined a NATO procurement partnership that lets Ukrainian defense companies bid for contracts issued by the alliance’s main buying agency, the NATO Support and Procurement Agency announced on Oct. 22, 2026. Ukraine is now the seventh member of the agency’s Security Cooperation Support Partnership, alongside Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and […]

Red Cat Holdings’ maritime division, Blue Ops, has opened orders for two new uncrewed surface vessels, an 18-foot boat built for reconnaissance and one-way attack missions and a 39-foot vessel already in low-rate production, as part of a new B-Series lineup named after each boat’s length. The company announced the family on Oct. 22, 2026. […]