Defense

Oct 16, 2026

Saab Completes Sea Trials of Large Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle

Saab, FMV and the Swedish Armed Forces have built and tested a large uncrewed underwater vehicle demonstrator less than one year after the contract award.

Oct 15, 2026

Bridge Defense Wins Software Agreement With Up to $63 Million in Initial Capacity

Bridge Defense secured a one year agreement to provide custom software development services to the Department of War, initially supporting U.S. Special Operations Command.

Oct 15, 2026

Ukrainian Drones Hit Sberbank Data Center Planned for Supercomputer

A Ukrainian drone attack hit Sberbank's Balakovo data center, while the bank said its systems and services continued operating normally.

Oct 15, 2026

Ukrainian Strikes Disrupt Yandex Services Across Central Asia

Drone attacks damaged Yandex data centers in Russia, disrupting taxi, delivery and other digital services in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Oct 13, 2026

Dominion Dynamics and Tencore Plan Canadian TerMIT Production

Dominion Dynamics and Tencore plan to manufacture TerMIT uncrewed ground vehicles in Canada for Ukraine, with initial production targeted for 2027.

Oct 13, 2026

Monopulse Raises Over €2 Million for Electronic Warfare Resistant Drones

Monopulse raised over €2 million to increase drone production, fund research and development, and enter more NATO markets.

Oct 12, 2026

WindBorne Wins Air Force Balloon Data Contract Worth Up to $49 Million

The United States Air Force will buy atmospheric data from WindBorne Systems under a contract worth up to $49 million. The agency has placed $1.7 million in initial orders.

Oct 12, 2026

Reveal Technology Launches Farsight 2.0 for Army Terrain Analysis

Reveal Technology launched Farsight 2.0, which combines authorized imagery in a shared terrain model and supports offline analysis by Army units.

Oct 12, 2026

Accrete Secures Argus Contract Renewal From International Defense Partner

An undisclosed international defense partner renewed its contract for Accrete's Argus for Cognitive Advantage platform. Analysts use the software to track narratives across online sources and assess their effects.

Oct 12, 2026

Havoc Wins U.S. Army Contract for Autonomous Resupply Software

The Army Applications Laboratory awarded Havoc a Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract to expand software that coordinates autonomous air and ground platforms for military resupply.

Oct 12, 2026

Sage Technologies launches DPVS digital night vision goggles

Sage Technologies introduced DPVS, digital night vision goggles that support onboard AI image enhancement, image processing and tactical data sharing.

Oct 9, 2026

PDW Adds Booz Allen Autonomy Software to AM Drones

Performance Drone Works is integrating Booz Allen mission autonomy software powered by Shield AI's Hivemind into its AM drones. Controlled testing began September 30, with general availability planned for the first quarter of 2027.

Oct 9, 2026

AirMatrix Gets Canadian Funding for Airspace AI Research

AirMatrix is receiving funding and advisory services from NRC IRAP to improve its Libra platform for low altitude airspace monitoring.

Oct 9, 2026

BLADE Advances Hunter WOLF to GroundBreaker 1 Hardware Test

BLADE will demonstrate its Hunter WOLF unmanned ground vehicle at Camp Grafton after advancing to Phase II of GroundBreaker 1.

Oct 8, 2026

Shield AI and US Government Commit $400 Million to X-BAT

The US Navy added $150 million to its agreement with Shield AI for the X-BAT fighter aircraft. Shield AI will match the funding, bringing total public and private commitments to $400 million.

Oct 8, 2026

U.S. Army Awards webAI $14.5 Million Tactical AI Contract

The U.S. Army awarded webAI Public Sector a $14.5 million contract to run AI locally on devices used by soldiers under Project ARIA.

Oct 8, 2026

ASI Wins $99 Million US Army Command and Control Contract

The US Army awarded Air Space Intelligence a five year, $99 million contract to expand its AI forecasting software across command and control programs.

Oct 8, 2026

Gallatin AI Raises $50 Million for Military Logistics Platform

Gallatin AI raised a $50 million Series A to expand its engineering team, develop its Navigator platform, and support more military logistics operations.

Oct 8, 2026

Thread AI and US Army Develop AI Research Tool for Fire Control

Thread AI and the US Army's DEVCOM Armaments Center will develop an AI research and reasoning application for engineers and scientists working on Fire Control Systems.

Oct 8, 2026

General Dynamics and Primordial Labs Bring Voice Controls to Combat Vehicles

General Dynamics Land Systems and Primordial Labs will integrate Anura natural language control software across military ground vehicles, including the Abrams tank.

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