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Rocket Lab USA [RKLB] on Tuesday evening said it intends to acquire German optical communications company Mynaric in a $75 million deal that would bring a key supplier in house, […]

The House on Tuesday narrowly passed a stopgap funding measure to avert a pending government shutdown with a 217-213 vote, sending the bill to the Senate. The lower chamber voted […]

Responding to a potential need from U.S. Space Command for new unclassified space situational awareness (SSA) capability, the acting chief of space acquisition policy last week directed the U.S. Space […]

The U.S. will “immediately” lift its pause on providing military and intelligence support to Ukraine, after Kyiv on Tuesday endorsed a 30-day ceasefire proposal aimed at ending Russia’s invasion. Following […]

The Army has rebranded the follow-on effort for its Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) as the Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC), with plans to hold a full and open competition […]

The Australian government awarded HII’s [HII] Australian subsidiary a $6 million contract to deliver a new submarine supplier qualification pilot to help Australian companies qualify to enter the U.S. submarine […]

AURORA, Colo.–The teaming of L3Harris Technologies [LHX] and Shield AI on the software-defined Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DiSCO) electronic warfare (EW) battle management system could aid drone initiatives like […]

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is examining launch sites in Australia, Spain, Scotland, and French Guyana, as DoD searches for launch companies that can offer alternatives to SpaceX. The latter’s […]