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BDC launches $4B defence investment platform to boost Canada’s security and scale SME innovation

The Business Development Bank of Canada has launched a $4 billion defence investment platform to accelerate capital into small and medium-sized enterprises developing defence, advanced manufacturing and critical technologies. The fund aims to strengthen national readiness by scaling domestic suppliers that underpin ships, aircraft, satellites and digital infrastructure.

2025-12-20T21:03:59.939247-08:00

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Leonardo's NGCTR technology demonstrator completes first flight under EU Clean Sky programme

2025-12-19T11:21:00.733254-08:00

Breaking Defense

USAF CCA Round 2 selects nine vendors to advance autonomous 'drone wingmen' concepts

2025-12-19T16:28:59.731301-08:00

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DRDO develops drone swarms as floating antenna arrays for electronic warfare

2025-12-19T23:44:41.903075-08:00

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BDC launches $4B defence investment platform to boost Canada’s security and scale SME innovation The Business Development Bank of Canada has launched a $4 billion defence investment platform to accelerate capital into small and medium-sized enterprises developing defence, advanced manufacturing and critical technologies. The fund aims to strengthen national readiness by scaling domestic suppliers that underpin ships, aircraft, satellites and digital infrastructure.

2025-12-20T21:03:59.939247-08:00

BDC launches $4B defence investment platform to boost Canada’s security and scale SME innovation

APAC Defence Reporter

Innovaero becomes fully Australian-owned after BAE Systems Australia divestment Innovaero announced it has completed its transition to full Australian ownership after BAE Systems Australia divested its stake, finalising the transfer of control and making the company wholly Australian-owned. The change was confirmed in Innovaero's statement today.

2025-12-20T13:28:54.741621-08:00

Innovaero becomes fully Australian-owned after BAE Systems Australia divestment

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DRDO develops drone swarms as floating antenna arrays for electronic warfare The DRDO has launched a Technology Development Fund project to build drone swarms that act as distributed "floating antenna arrays" for electronic-warfare tasks, pairing networked RF payloads, swarm autonomy and coordinated manoeuvres to provide scalable SIGINT collection and jamming effects over contested battlefields.

2025-12-19T23:44:41.903075-08:00

DRDO develops drone swarms as floating antenna arrays for electronic warfare

Air & Space Forces Mag

U.S. and Jordan launch 'Operation Hawkeye' strikes on ISIS in Syria using F‑15s, A‑10s, Apaches and HIMARS The U.S., with Jordanian air support, launched 'Operation Hawkeye' — a Dec. 19 retaliatory campaign using F‑15s, A‑10s, Apache attack helicopters and HIMARS rockets to strike about 70 ISIS infrastructure and weapons sites, with Deir ez‑Zor province the hardest hit after three Americans were killed.

2025-12-19T17:05:20.387796-08:00

U.S. and Jordan launch 'Operation Hawkeye' strikes on ISIS in Syria using F‑15s, A‑10s, Apaches and HIMARS

Breaking Defense

USAF CCA Round 2 selects nine vendors to advance autonomous 'drone wingmen' concepts The U.S. Air Force has selected nine industry teams in Round 2 of its Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) effort to mature a broad spectrum of autonomous 'drone wingmen' concepts, an Air Force spokesperson told Breaking Defense. The designs will be narrowed in later phases toward prototype candidates.

2025-12-19T16:28:59.731301-08:00

USAF CCA Round 2 selects nine vendors to advance autonomous 'drone wingmen' concepts

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Lockheed to name candidate for US Army Flight School Next UH-72A replacement in January Lockheed Martin says it will disclose in January which aircraft it proposes to replace the U.S. Army’s UH‑72A Lakota primary trainer as it prepares a bid for the Flight School Next competition. The move formalizes Lockheed’s entry into the Army’s effort to modernize initial rotary‑wing pilot training.

2025-12-19T11:44:07.248679-08:00

Lockheed to name candidate for US Army Flight School Next UH-72A replacement in January

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Leonardo's NGCTR technology demonstrator completes first flight under EU Clean Sky programme Leonardo Helicopters' Next Generation Civil Tiltrotor (NGCTR) technology demonstrator completed its first flight on 19 December at Cascina Costa di Samarate (Varese), flying under the EU Clean Sky 2/Clean Aviation programme to validate tiltrotor performance that marries helicopter versatility with fixed‑wing speed and range.

2025-12-19T11:21:00.733254-08:00

Leonardo's NGCTR technology demonstrator completes first flight under EU Clean Sky programme

Via Satellite

Ovzon wins $25.2M satcom services contract with undisclosed European NATO nation Ovzon said Dec. 19 it has won a $25.2 million contract to provide satellite communications services to an undisclosed European NATO nation. The award bolsters Ovzon's government-services revenue and highlights continued demand across Europe for secure, military‑grade satcom capacity and operational resilience.

2025-12-19T10:25:39.225525-08:00

Ovzon wins $25.2M satcom services contract with undisclosed European NATO nation

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BDC launches $4B defence investment platform to boost Canada’s security and scale SME innovation

Leonardo's NGCTR technology demonstrator completes first flight under EU Clean Sky programme

USAF CCA Round 2 selects nine vendors to advance autonomous 'drone wingmen' concepts

DRDO develops drone swarms as floating antenna arrays for electronic warfare

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