DEUTZ built the first GEREON ground robots for ARX Robotics at its Ulm plant, 12 weeks after the pair announced production. The batch is bound for Ukraine's Defense Forces. Neither firm disclosed volume or contract value.
Lockheed Martin led Fortem's $50 million Series B to expand DroneHunter production in Utah and tie Fortem's radars and interceptors into its Sanctum counter-drone software. The Army's new counter-drone IDIQ does not name Fortem.
Aeon says it will license-build Destinus' Hornet Block 2 interceptor in Texas from 2027, and the pair's joint proposal is a Topic 1 finalist in the Army's xTech|Apex Intercept competition.
STARK unveiled its Vanta-12 drone boat with four MBDA Sea Venom missiles, which MBDA is adapting for surface launch. Integration is early, and no navy has ordered the boat.
Origin Robotics and Anduril will test the BLAZE drone interceptor on Anduril's Lattice software in Latvia. The work is self-funded, and no date is set. Latvia already buys BLAZE under a multi-year framework.
The Army picked Vulcan Elements to supply rare-earth magnets for the brushless drone motors it builds at Tobyhanna Army Depot. The award notice shows $1.2 million; no order quantity or delivery date is public.
The Army Applications Laboratory gave Rune Technologies $4.1 million to take TyrOS across the 1st Cavalry Division and let it task drones and ground robots with resupply. The only disclosed live mission so far was one August drone run.
Hanwha Defense USA and Magnet Defense start building the 38-meter H38 unmanned vessel in October and test it in January. The Navy's first MUSV trial round is running without them.
ARX Robotics gains a British Army platform and a Welsh production route through General Dynamics Land Systems-UK. The concept is uncosted and carries no Ministry of Defence funding.
Pratt & Whitney licensed Hermeus on Sept. 15 to build F100-PW-229 fighter engines. Hermeus must first get its builds accepted by Pratt, and no rate or delivery date was disclosed.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a 2026-2028 teaming agreement worth several million dollars with EdgeCortix, giving the Japanese chip startup an aerospace prime to carry its onboard AI. No aircraft or customer was named.
Arkeus and Tanglewood Group will build and sustain the Warden hyperspectral sensor in Malvern, England. The Melbourne startup already sells to the Australian Army and the US Department of War, and flew Warden in Europe last November. It still has no British customer.
Howa Machinery took equity in Prodrone and handed it a factory site, giving the Nagoya drone maker the production line it has never had and a route into a Defense Ministry it does not yet sell to.
L3Harris licensed Shield AI's Tracker counter-drone software onto VAMPIRE, putting the startup's detection stack on a launcher the US Army has already ordered up to $106 million of.
Quantum Systems' co-CEO says In-Q-Tel's Washington connections, not its capital, built the $8 billion German drone maker's first US government business.
Denmark removed more than 20 legislative barriers so Fire Point could cast solid rocket propellant at Vojens, beyond the strikes hunting its Ukrainian plants. The site now carries a 150 million euro budget, nearly triple the original, and slips to the end of 2027.
A binding TRISO fuel contract signed six days before the Army's Janus award is what lets Radiant promise sealed, pre-fueled microreactors to Fort Benning. The reactor was never the hard part.
Tencore and Insta signed a Joint Statement of Intent in Kyiv on Aug. 23 to build TerMIT 2.0 ground robots in Finland. The first target is 320 units for Ukraine's Defense Forces. No contract value, no sites and no schedule have been named.
Deterrence has never held a Pentagon contract. Its first named assignment is the Mesquite line that took $533 million in Army funding and produced no usable shell.
Lockheed Martin bolted a JAGM launcher to the bow of a Saildrone Surveyor and the Navy's own fire control pulled the trigger at RIMPAC. The demonstration produced two shots and no order.
Heaviside's $60 million Series B came with a warhead-supply agreement from Nammo, the Norwegian maker with 27 production sites. The startup still has no named program and no delivery date.
Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics must qualify autonomous production lines before HII assigns work under seven-year Navy shipbuilding agreements.
An Air Force prototype agreement gives Xos a route into defense, but the commercial charging company must still adapt and deliver its mobile battery system for field use.