Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
SpaceX will launch the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Tracking Layer, carrying 36 missile‑tracking satellites — 18 built by L3Harris and 18 by Lockheed Martin — plus eight Millennium Space Systems FOO Fighter demonstrators, advancing SDA's proliferated missile‑warning and tracking architecture.
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
By Breaking Defense: DIU expects to fund prototypes of multiple airborne platforms for magnetic navigation, including one that scans the ocean surface at 2,000 ft.
Reuters
• Andrew Osborn
By Reuters: The missile is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, although there was no suggestion that the one used in the overnight attack had been fitted with them.
Breaking Defense
• Michael Marrow
By Breaking Defense: The fresh approach is meant to streamline weapons procurement and cut through bureaucracy, though details like exactly what authorities new Portfolio Acquisition Executives will have are being worked out.
FlightGlobal
• Ryan Finnerty
By FlightGlobal: The US Navy has digitally integrated autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft with Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters inside the Joint Simulation Environment, as the service begins a fleet transformation that will see uncrewed fighters operated alongside conventional aircraft.
Reuters
• Gabriel Rubin
By Reuters: President Trump wants to block defense contractors like $250 bln RTX from repurchasing stock and big investors such as Blackstone from buying homes. He can't do so alone, but CEOs will waste resources coping.
Reuters
• Saad Sayeed
By Reuters: Pakistan is in the final phases of striking a $1.5-billion deal to supply weapons and jets to Sudan, a former top air force official and three sources said, promising a major boost for Sudan's army, battling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Breaking Defense
• Michael Marrow
By Breaking Defense: Northrop Grumman will serve as the prime contractor and integrate mission systems on Kratos’s XQ-58 Valkyrie for the Marine Corps’s MUX TACAIR Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.
DefenseNews.com
• Tom Kington
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
Reuters
• Megavarshini G. Somasundaram
The War Zone
• Howard Altman
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
Aviation Today
• Frank Wolfe
