Pentagon opens equity checkbook for U.S. drone makers
Trump administration explores direct government equity stakes in drone manufacturers through the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital, fundamentally restructuring access to defense capital.
Army names ACS Bullfrog winner of xTechOverwatch competition
Allen Control Systems wins Army's premier emerging tech competition and $2M SBIR award for Bullfrog, an autonomous weapon system designed to defeat drones at $10 per engagement.
Firestorm Labs wins $30M Pentagon contract for forward drone factories
Firestorm Labs secured a $30M APFIT contract to deploy containerized drone factories and 200+ Tempest drones to the Indo-Pacific, marking the startup's first operational fielding outside the U.S.
Anduril quietly built hypersonics. Now it's testing them for real.
Anduril Industries is contracting Rocket Lab for three $30M hypersonic test flights with its own capital, confirming a private defense tech firm is now funding independent hypersonic R&D outside government programs.
Anduril lands $100M Space Force mesh network contract modification
Anduril's IDIQ ceiling for space domain awareness mesh networking doubles to $200M, extending the company's AI-powered infrastructure into orbital layers of next-gen integrated defense.
Germany, Ukraine scale autonomous strike drones to thousands annually
Auterion and Airlogix signed a production contract with Germany to manufacture thousands of AI-guided autonomous strike UAVs annually in Germany — the largest German heavy drone order to date, validating autonomy software already seeded into U.S. DoD programs.
Army Orders Ghost-X Drones With Named Sensor Payload, $16.8M
The U.S. Army awarded Anduril Industries a $16.8 million firm-fixed-price contract for Ghost-X small drones paired with Trillium HD45LP imaging payloads, signaling the platform's shift from directed requirement to production procurement.
Infleqtion's Quantum Clock Just Entered the Real World
Infleqtion and Safran Electronics & Defense deployed the first commercial quantum-enabled precision timing system on April 1, 2026—picosecond-level accuracy independent of GPS. That is a 1,000× improvement, and it marks the crossing from lab to production for quantum sensing.