Weapons

The Air Force cited data rights as a reason for a sole source follow-on award to Northrop Grumman [NOC] for the future Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) and the Navy Advanced […]

The House-Senate conference agreement on the fiscal 2026 defense authorization bill would limit the use of travel funds by Pentagon acquisition, research and engineering officials until the department establishes a […]

A Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) developed by Northrop Grumman [NOC] completed an airborne separation test from an Air Force F-16 aircraft as part of ongoing development efforts of the air-to-ground […]

The attack division of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s armament directorate (AFLCMC/EBD) at Eglin AFB, Fla., wants to hear from companies by December 12 on their wherewithal to […]

RTX‘s [RTX] Raytheon and Lockheed Martin [LMT] have signed Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) with Italy’s Avio SpA to help build a “state of the art” solid rocket motor (SRM) plant […]

Shareholders in Italy’s Avio SpA have approved the company’s $465 million 10-year investment plan targeted at building solid rocket motors (SRMs) for DoD missiles and munitions. “The core of Avio’s […]

The Army hopes to start buying the next version of a long-range fire weapon, Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 2, in the middle of 2026, a senior official said Monday. […]

Amid increasing demand signals from the Defense Department for more, and more affordable, counter-drone solutions and lessons learned in Ukraine, L3Harris Technologies [LHX] is adapting its vehicle-based VAMPIRE system for […]

The U.S. Army’s Transformation in Contact (TiC) initiative aims to field command and control (C2) applications on tablets, versus the prior way of fielding C2 systems with large “footprints.” If […]

Aventra, a startup focused on low-cost, long-range glide and guidance systems to deliver precision strikes without GPS, on Wednesday emerged from stealth with a $3 million seed round. The funding […]