Red Cat's $150M Pentagon bet hinges on one math problem
Red Cat Holdings is a Drone Dominance Program finalist with production capacity ramping on two platforms, but CEO's own target ratio, 10,000 to 17,000 ISR drones per 350,000 attack drones, reveals the Pentagon's real bottleneck.
UK greenlights 7.6 GW LDES storage, world's first revenue-floor scheme
Ofgem selected 16 projects for guaranteed-revenue contracts, setting global precedent for de-risking long-duration storage investment at scale.
Air Force picks Anduril, GA-ASI for fighter-class drone production
Air Force awards Anduril and General Atomics production contracts for 150+ collaborative combat aircraft, locking out legacy primes from the hardware market and accelerating autonomous wingman deployment by four months.
VA Tech Wabag wins $372M Kuwait desalination contract
VA Tech Wabag and Heisco awarded $372M contract to build Kuwait's largest SWRO plant, marking the Indian firm's first entry into the Kuwaiti market and a 272 MLD capacity milestone.
NRL laser demo collapses two defense missions into one platform
NRL demonstrated a single laser system that transmits power wirelessly and switches to counter-drone defense without interruption, collapsing two separate logistics and defense functions onto one Boeing-integrated platform.
CNH invests €21M in R&D simulation hub to cut tractor dev time
CNH inaugurated a €21M dual R&D facility in Modena combining virtual simulation and automated logistics to compress agricultural equipment development cycles and scale precision farming tech.
France adopts Latvian autonomous interceptor drone, challenging NATO's primes
Origin Robotics' BLAZE enters French military service after competitive DGA evaluation, marking the fourth NATO operator and signaling a shift in sovereign counter-drone procurement away from incumbent European defense contractors.
Helion clears first fusion plant regulatory licenses globally
Helion Energy received the world's first operating licenses for a fusion power plant from Washington state, clearing construction barriers for its 50 MW Orion facility and its Microsoft power purchase agreement.
Palo Alto VPN Flaw Under Active Exploit; CISA Adds to Federal Mandate
A critical authentication bypass in Palo Alto's widely-deployed GlobalProtect VPN is being actively exploited to breach corporate networks without valid credentials, forcing federal patching deadlines.
Kentucky farmer plants 850 acres with no one in the seat
Quint Pottinger became the first Kentucky farmer to autonomously plant his entire crop, joining fewer than 50 U.S. farms using driverless equipment, and slashing capital costs by 70 percent.
Army locks $350M contract for spectrum-sensing startup 3dB Labs
The Army awarded 3dB Labs a $350M production contract for its Spectrum Situational Awareness System, moving EMS sensing from prototype to fielded capability across four major divisions.
General Atomics backs six Dutch autonomy startups in allied tech play
General Atomics invested in six Netherlands-based defense startups through its Blue Magic program, targeting drone swarm autonomy and GPS-denied navigation, a systematic approach to absorbing European dual-use tech.
NC State launches autonomous drone network across research stations
NC State's AIRS system deploys FAA-approved beyond-visual-line-of-sight drones that self-launch from weatherproof stations and fly crop trials remotely from Raleigh, collapsing the feedback loop between field data and research action.
Pentagon picks Viasat, Intelsat to build military SATCOM swarm
U.S. Space Force awards $437.7M to Viasat and Intelsat for first production mini-GEO satellites, signaling shift from monolithic AEHF constellation to proliferated commercial architecture.
Ag Leader embeds row guidance into display, removing hardware barrier
Ag Leader Technology integrates corn head guidance natively into InCommand Go displays, collapsing add-on hardware into software and lowering adoption friction for precision harvesting.
Reservoir opens free agtech testing to cut $50M commercialization barrier
Reservoir Farms expands its on-farm robotics incubator with free Associate tier access, lowering entry barriers for specialty crop agtech startups by sharing 24 acres of commercial test fields and equipment.
Sensie raises €500K for plant-feedback greenhouse sensors
Belgian AgTech startup Sensie closed a €500K pre-seed round to scale wireless sensors that capture direct plant physiological data alongside climate and irrigation inputs, addressing a gap in how growers optimize crop decisions.
Salin 247 plants autonomous machine in certified-organic corn at Rodale
Salin 247 deployed an autonomous planting machine in certified-organic corn trials at Rodale Institute, marking the first time autonomous row-crop equipment has operated under organic certification constraints.
Fedimint Forces Recurring Payments Migration, Launches Experimental Next-Gen Modules
Fedimint v0.11.2-alpha.1 removes LNv2 from its recurring payments daemon, forcing operator migration, while shipping experimental MintV2 and WalletV2 modules as opt-in federation components.
Space Force Awards SpaceX $4.16B to Build Orbital Airborne Surveillance
The Space Force awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to deploy space-based moving target indicator satellites by 2028, shifting a core ISR mission from aircraft to orbit and threatening legacy airborne platforms.