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Business/FinancialREGENT Raises $240 Million To Transition Seagliders To Manufacturing
Dual-use Seaglider developer REGENT Craft last Thursday announced it raised $240 million in a new funding round as it pushes to shift from earlier stage development into full scale production […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Seeks Prototypes For New Air-Launched Torpedo
The Navy on Tuesday issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking industry’s ability to design, test and make a new cost-effective prototype air-launched torpedo. A new government notice said the […]
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Navy/USMCCastelion Nabs Another $90 Million Navy Order To Fund First 50 Blackbeard Weapons
The Navy on Tuesday awarded hypersonic weapons developer Castelion another $90 million firm-fixed-price order to further develop and advance the Blackbeard hypersonic weapon system and the first 50 Early Operational […]
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Navy/USMCMarine Corps Warfighting Lab Accepts First Aussie-Designed Prototype Surface Craft
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory (MCWL) earlier this month received the first of two Ancillary Surface Craft (ASC) prototypes, according to an Aug. 18 news release. The ASC is designed […]
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Navy/USMCSecNav Creates New Defense Industrial Base Office
Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao on Monday announced the appointment of Andrew Magliochetti to the new role of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for the Defense Industrial […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Looking To “Dramatically” Lower Costs Of Missile Defense Kill Vehicles
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Aug. 19 issued a solicitation seeking innovative proposals from industry to dramatically lower the cost of kill vehicles used to defend against ballistic and […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Unveils New AIM-424 Long-Range Air-To-Air Missile
The Navy this weekend revealed it and RTX’s [RTX] Raytheon are developing a new AIM-424 Long-Range Air-to-Air Missile (LRAAM), dubbed the Malice. The new missile was first reported by Aviation […]
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Navy/USMCUnion Ratifies New Five-Year Agreement With GD Bath Iron Works
Thousands of shipbuilder members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Union Local S6 union have ratified a new five-year labor agreement with General Dynamics’ [GD] Bath […]
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Unmanned SystemsSaildrone And Lockheed Martin Test Fired Missiles Off USV During RIMPAC
Saildrone and Lockheed Martin [LMT] on Thursday announced they test fired two Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) launches from a Saildrone Surveyor unmanned surface vessel (USV) during the Navy’s 2026 Rim […]
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Missile DefenseDoD Declined To Brief CBO On Golden Dome
The Defense Department’s Golden Dome office has declined repeated briefing requests from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on what the Pentagon is planning to build while the head of that […]
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