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Cal Biesecker
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Business/FinancialBullfrog Counter-Drone Developer Allen Control Systems Raises $200 Million
Allen Control Systems (ACS) on Friday said it has raised $200 million to scale production of its Bullfrog autonomous weapon station that can be integrated with different weapons—including the M240 […]
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SpaceYork Delivers Second Production Lot Of Tranche 1 Transport Satellites For SDA
Just ahead of a planned launch this summer, York Space Systems [YSS] on Friday morning said it has shipped the second plane of 21 satellites it built for the Space […]
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Business/FinancialApex Raises $200 Million To Boost Hiring And Vertical Integration
Satellite bus manufacturer Apex on Friday said it raised more than $200 million in a new investment round to add more engineers, continue vertical integration of satellite production, and provide […]
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Friday, June 5, 2026
- HASC Rejects $150 Billion Topline Cut, Iran Cost Transparency Proposals At NDAA Markup
- House Authorizers Retain Battleship Funding, But Want Nuclear-Power Report
- Air Force Leadership Backs MYPs Beyond F-35 And F-15EX
- HASC Wants Pentagon List Of Critical F-35 Technical Data Rights And Estimate Of Cost To Buy Them For Repairs
- NGA Awards Planet $22M Luno B Option For Maritime Domain Awareness
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Friday, June 5, 2026
- HASC Rejects $150 Billion Topline Cut, Iran Cost Transparency Proposals At NDAA Markup
- House Authorizers Retain Battleship Funding, But Want Nuclear-Power Report
- Air Force Leadership Backs MYPs Beyond F-35 And F-15EX
- HASC Wants Pentagon List Of Critical F-35 Technical Data Rights And Estimate Of Cost To Buy Them For Repairs
- NGA Awards Planet $22M Luno B Option For Maritime Domain Awareness
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SpaceNGA Awards Planet $22M Luno B Option For Maritime Domain Awareness
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded Planet Labs [PL] a $22 million option on a contract begun last year to provide unclassified artificial intelligence-enabled data analytics for U.S. Combatant […]
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Thursday, June 4, 2026
- Congress Needed Pentagon’s Iran Supplemental Request ‘Yesterday,’ HASC’s Wittman Says
- MUSV At-Sea Testing Limited To Seven Selectees But Could Re-Open If Navy Wants USVs With Different Requirements
- Lockheed Details Successful Propulsion Demo For PrSM Inc. 4 Design, Flight Test To Begin This Fall
- Air Force To Focus On Less Costly Palletized Missiles For Cargo Aircraft
- Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Successful Drone Intercept With Sanctum System
- NRO Nominee: “We Have To Look Differently At Our Requirements”
- Fluor Marine Propulsion Receives $1 Billion Award For Naval Nuclear Lab Work
- RTX Nabs $516 Million Contract For More SPY-6 Radar Support
- Ground Robotics Startup Focused On Complex Environments Raises $10 Million In Seed Round
- Y-12 Completes Fiscal 2026 Naval Reactors Uranium Castings Ahead Of Schedule
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Thursday, June 4, 2026
- Congress Needed Pentagon’s Iran Supplemental Request ‘Yesterday,’ HASC’s Wittman Says
- MUSV At-Sea Testing Limited To Seven Selectees But Could Re-Open If Navy Wants USVs With Different Requirements
- Lockheed Details Successful Propulsion Demo For PrSM Inc. 4 Design, Flight Test To Begin This Fall
- Air Force To Focus On Less Costly Palletized Missiles For Cargo Aircraft
- Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Successful Drone Intercept With Sanctum System
- NRO Nominee: “We Have To Look Differently At Our Requirements”
- Fluor Marine Propulsion Receives $1 Billion Award For Naval Nuclear Lab Work
- RTX Nabs $516 Million Contract For More SPY-6 Radar Support
- Ground Robotics Startup Focused On Complex Environments Raises $10 Million In Seed Round
- Y-12 Completes Fiscal 2026 Naval Reactors Uranium Castings Ahead Of Schedule
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Unmanned SystemsLockheed Martin Demonstrates Successful Drone Intercept With Sanctum System
Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Wednesday said it successfully intercepted a one-way attack drone in a demonstration of its Sanctum counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS). The test at Yuma Proving Grounds in […]
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Unmanned SystemsGround Robotics Startup Focused On Complex Environments Raises $10 Million In Seed Round
Shifters, a small startup developing sensor-carrying quadruped robots and autonomy software for maneuverability in difficult and dangerous terrains, has raised $10.2 million in an early stage round that will be […]