Thursday, November 13, 2025
Startups and scaleups in the defense industry are saying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s plan to “transform” the defense acquisition ecosystem signals the Pentagon is ready to act like a rational buyer and open the market to new industrial base players.
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for responsive manufacturing technology prototypes that can churn out dual-use space systems on demand at commercial scale, citing an existing domestic space supply chain likely incapable of meeting wartime demand.
The Defense Department last night unveiled a new model for how the military builds specialized cyber forces, focusing on a more targeted approach.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded autonomy developer PhysicsAI a contract to design, train and test AI-enabled soaring capabilities for drones, the company announced today.
A new Defense Department reorganization of senior policy leaders and their oversight areas is drawing bipartisan rebukes from senior senators, who say Congress has not been informed of major shifts in officials' responsibilities, including the AUKUS security pact between the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
The Defense Innovation Unit will award data intelligence platform provider Obviant up to $99 million under a prototype award for its AI solution unifying defense procurement data currently scattered across the federal government, the company announced today.
North Carolina-based rare earth magnet maker Vulcan Elements and critical mineral refinery ReElement are teaming up with the federal government on a $1.4 billion partnership to scale the companies' fully domestic rare earth magnet supply chain, Vulcan announced today.
The Defense Department, flush with cash from Congress, is moving ahead with a decade-long effort to modernize the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands, a key hub for U.S. missile defense testing.
Doug Beck, who abruptly left his post as director of the Defense Innovation Unit at the end of August, is coming back to the Center for New American Security’s board of directors after nearly three years away, the think tank announced today.
The United States and Australia signed a landmark Critical Minerals Framework today that includes more than $3 billion in immediate investments in critical mineral projects, with up to $8 billion in total financing possible through additional U.S. Export-Import Bank support, signaling a major step in securing supply-chain and defense resources.
Defense contractor Anduril Industries has acquired American Infrared Solutions (AIRS), a U.S.-based manufacturer of high-performance cooled infrared cameras and components, Anduril announced today.
The Army is teaming up with the Energy Department and Defense Innovation Unit to launch its latest nuclear reactor program aimed at putting fully operational commercial microreactors on domestic military installations to support energy resilience for the warfighter, service officials announced today.
Defense technology company Anduril Industries today revealed EagleEye -- a family of AI-powered components forming a heads-up display for the 21st century battlefield.
Defense startup Epirus and General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) unveiled their joint mobile counter-drone capability today, marking the second system on which the defense technology vendors have teamed up to make that gives high-power microwave platforms mobility.
The Defense Department is awarding Alaska Range Resources (ARR) $43.4 million to extract, process and purify extracted stibnite to produce "military grade" antimony trisulfide, according to a DOD announcement published yesterday.
The Defense Department will finally take steps to formally stand up the congressionally mandated DOD Quantum Information Science Program and expects to publish initial guidance directives by the end of 2025.
Anduril Industries and Zone 5 Technologies have wrapped up recent development sprints and initial flight tests for the prototype systems they're building for the Defense Innovation Unit's drone-defeat program.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD -- Anduril Industries, responding to government demand signals to expand the U.S. munitions industrial base, has unveiled a new variant of its Barracuda family of software-defined, low-cost and mass-producible cruise missiles -- a surface-launched version of the Barracuda-500.
The Trump administration today released its fiscal year 2027 research and development priorities for all federal agencies, highlighting several focus areas that have already attracted sustained attention from senior Pentagon leaders.
U.S. Central Command is launching a task force aimed at rapidly delivering innovative capabilities to deployed forces, according to a new announcement.