Weapons

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 […]

An industry day is scheduled for October to introduce the Naval Modular Missile (NMM) program program to potential vendors. According to the Sept. 25 notice, the Naval Sea Systems Command […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Anduril Industries plans next year to build more than a thousand Barracuda-500 cruise missiles for foreign and domestic buys, company officials said on Tuesday. The Air Force’s Franklin […]

Albuquerque’s Applied Research Associates (ARA) is to work with Boeing [BA] over the next two years to design, build, and test subscale and full scale prototypes of a Next Generation […]

As part of an effort to field more affordable, counter drone systems, the U.S. Air Force in April issued a relatively small, $1.6 million contract to BAE Systems‘ site in […]

The Navy on Friday awarded RTX [RTX] a $205 million modification to continue procurement of the MK 15 Close-In Weapons Systems. The Defense Department contract notice said this entails procuring […]

The Army awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $9.8 billion contract to produce 1,970 Patriot Advanced Capability – 3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) interceptors for the U.S. and international partners, […]