Italy signed a €3.7 billion contract for two 13,500-tonne DDX-class destroyers to be delivered in 2033 and 2035, built by Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a joint venture between state shipyard Fincantieri and defense contractor Leonardo.
Valiant secured a five-year, $260 million contract from Army Contracting Command-Orlando to provide mission command training, exercises, and simulation support for Army National Guard units nationwide.
Go.AI closed an $85 million Series A to expand its on-premises AI platform for regulated industries including aerospace and defense, bringing total funding to $90 million.
Ondas paid $56 million upfront plus up to $32 million in earnouts through 2028 to acquire Insignito, Ottopia Defense, and Caribou Labs, combining drone detection, autonomous vehicle operations, resilient communications, and GPS-independent navigation.
Venn, an AI platform for real estate operators, acquired Zuma, an AI agents developer, for $50 million to integrate leasing and renewal capabilities into its Company Brain platform serving 270 operators across 30 states and five countries.
Red Cat Holdings is investing $30 million to expand its Blue Ops maritime division's Valdosta, Georgia facility and ramp production of the Variant 7 Uncrewed Surface Vessel, creating over 200 jobs.
The U.S. Navy contracted Raytheon Missile and Defense to prepare the upgraded SM-6 Block IAU for production, with initial deliveries from fiscal year 2030 and target capacity of 500+ missiles annually.
Fluor Marine Propulsion received a $2.41 billion cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to support Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program work across three Naval Nuclear Laboratory locations.
The Pentagon invited 17 companies, including public firm AIRO Group, to compete for $32 million in prototype orders of reusable drone bombers at an October event in Michigan.
AEVEX Corp. unveiled Specter, a jet-powered, modular autonomous platform developed with Divergent Technologies for one-way attack missions.
Kratos and GE Aerospace completed the first hot-fire ignition of the GEK800 (F143) turbofan after more than 50 ground test starts, as the engine enters JASSM's EMD phase as a second source.
Tekever closed the first tranche of a $580 million Series D led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford, valuing the autonomous systems maker at $6.4 billion.
The UK Ministry of Defense will invest approximately £6 billion to expand industrial capacity at BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce Submarines to support SSN-AUKUS nuclear attack submarine production, with first steel cut planned for 2027.
Johns Hopkins APL secured a five-year, $390 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide research and development support across space science, reentry test beds, IT and combat systems.
Leidos extended its contract to operate ARTEMIS, an airborne signals intelligence platform based on a modified Bombardier Challenger 650, for the Army's European Command operations through summer 2027 with two option years.
The U.S. Army selected Vulcan Elements to supply rare earth magnets for brushless motors in its SkyFoundry drone program, targeting one million small drones annually and reducing dependence on Chinese materials.
The Air Force's fiscal 2027 budget includes $996.5 million to acquire Collaborative Combat Aircraft from General Atomics and Anduril, plus $150 million in advance procurement for 2028, as both companies ramp production rates.
The U.S. Army awarded General Dynamics Land Systems $49.3 million for additional Stryker Double V-Hull A1 vehicles, with plans for a future order of 20 more units.
Impulse Space secured a $28 million Space Force contract to deploy its Mira spacecraft for space domain awareness missions in low Earth orbit, with launch expected no earlier than 2029.
Australia's Defence Department declared Initial Operational Capability for its Triton and Peregrine ISR fleets, with three of four ordered aircraft delivered for each type.
DIU and Space Systems Command awarded prototype contracts for GHOST-R, aiming to launch GEO reconnaissance satellites by 2028 and reach Space Force operations by 2029.
The XVIII Airborne Corps evaluated the dual-mode SkyRunner buggy at Fort Bragg on Sept. 16, testing its 120-mile flight range and $140,000 to $150,000 price tag.
South Korea's Air Force received its first production KF-21 Boramae fighter, with Korea Aerospace Industries set to deliver 40 jets by 2028 and 80 more by 2032.
SYOS Aerospace closed its first institutional funding round to accelerate R&D, production capacity, and international expansion, though the amount raised was not disclosed.
The Space Force is seeking a commercial maneuverable spacecraft with a 14-day tasking-to-launch timeline, with a potential need as soon as fiscal 2029.
France and Iraq formalized a strategic defense roadmap including autonomous counter-UAS platforms from Harmattan AI, with Gobi and Gobi Tempest systems capable of intercepting hostile drones at speeds up to 350 km/h.
Advanced Navigation won an $18.5M supply agreement to provide Boreas Fiber-Optic Gyroscope inertial navigation systems for KONGSBERG's PROTECTOR counter-UAS platforms, enabling precise targeting when GPS is denied.
The US Army awarded Skyeton Inc. a $10.64 million firm-fixed-price contract for its Ukraine-tested Raybird UAS, with quantity undisclosed.
Elmet Group received $450 million in committed investment from the Department of War and a Defense Logistics Agency contract with a $2 billion ceiling to expand domestic tungsten manufacturing and rebuild the National Defense Stockpile.
Los Angeles-based Fluxnium closed a $7 million seed round to commercialize uranium extraction from seawater, targeting a domestic fuel source as the U.S. imports over 90% of its uranium supply.
SpaceX secured a $946 million contract modification from NASA for three additional crew rotation missions to the International Space Station through 2030, bringing total CCtCap value to $5.92 billion.
Denmark's Ministry of Defence purchased radars from Danish firm Weibel Scientific for detection, classification and tracking of unmanned aircraft threatening critical military infrastructure.
Hanwha Defense USA is investing $2.2 billion in munitions manufacturing at Pine Bluff Arsenal, a $900 million increase from its January commitment, to expand domestic production capacity.
Dragos completed acquisitions of NetRise and runZero to add exposure management and software supply chain security to its industrial cybersecurity platform serving critical infrastructure operators.
Thomson Reuters Special Services won a five-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $125 million to provide data analytics for Immigration and Customs Enforcement screening, vetting and criminal analysis.
U.S. Coast Guard forecasts a follow-on contract worth more than $100 million to L3Harris for installing the Minotaur Mission System Suite on four new C-130J aircraft. Award is anticipated in Q3 FY2028 with performance through April 2038.
K & K Industries received a firm-fixed-price contract worth $13.65 million to build a weapons release system storage facility for the B-21 Raider program at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
Tempus AI won up to $9.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop an autonomous AI system that monitors and coordinates cardiovascular care for heart failure patients without direct human intervention.
Conti Federal Services secured a $55.4 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a Special Tactics Complex for the Oregon Air National Guard's 125th Special Tactics Squadron in Portland.
The AI benchmarking startup closed a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and launched a program serving federal agencies, expanding evaluation work into cybersecurity, biosecurity, and law of armed conflict.