Aerospace
Redwire Wins $13.8 Million in National Guard Orders for Stalker UAS
Redwire Corporation announced on October 15, 2026 that it secured additional purchase orders valued at approximately 13.8 million U.S. dollars to deliver its Stalker Uncrewed Aircraft Systems to the U.S. National Guard Bureau, which will use the aircraft to train…
Rocket Lab Targets 2027 for Neutron First Launch After Dome Defect
Rocket Lab Corporation said on October 14, 2026 that the first launch of its Neutron medium-lift rocket is now expected in 2027, moving past its previous fourth-quarter 2026 target after inspections found voids in a newly cured carbon-composite forward propellant…
Kratos Starts Construction of Indiana Radar and Hypersonics Complexes
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced on October 14, 2026, that it held a joint groundbreaking ceremony that day at the Westgate Academy in Odon, Indiana, marking the beginning of construction for its new Helios and AN/SPY-1 facilities. The facilities…
L3Harris Teams With Divergent to Scale Wolf Pack Munitions Output
L3Harris Technologies and Divergent Technologies, Inc. have signed a teaming agreement to scale production and enhance capabilities for affordable mass munitions, according to an L3Harris announcement dated October 13, 2026. The companies will initially seek to leverage Divergent’s additive manufacturing…
Boeing Reports 161 Commercial and 33 Defense Deliveries in Q3
The Boeing Company announced major program deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for the third quarter of 2026 in a release dated October 13, 2026 from Arlington, Virginia. Commercial Airplanes deliveries totaled 161 for the quarter and 475 for…
L3Harris Begins VAMPIRE Counter-Drone Deliveries to US Army
L3Harris Technologies has started delivering VAMPIRE counter-unmanned systems (C-UxS) to the U.S. Army in support of hostile drone defense, with initial deliveries arriving within two months of the Army’s order worth up to $106 million, according to a company announcement…
Six Weeks of Hivemind Training Leads to Honeywell’s First Autonomous Flight
Honeywell Aerospace and Shield AI announced on October 13, 2026, the completion of two autonomous flight demonstrations, culminating in a coordinated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) mission flown by two aircraft running Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software. The work produced…
Sinergise, a Planet Unit, Wins ESA Contract for Slovenian Resilience Node
Planet Labs GmbH announced on October 13, 2026, that Planet’s subsidiary Sinergise Solutions d.o.o. has been selected by the European Space Agency to build the Slovenia Space Resilience Node, a 12-month pilot project that will automate the link between wide-area…
Taiwan Coast Guard Receives First V-BAT Aircraft From Shield AI
Defense-technology company Shield AI announced on October 13, 2026, the first delivery of its V-BAT uncrewed aircraft to the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration (CGA) with its partner Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). The company said twelve V-BATs will be delivered…
L3Harris Receives $55 Million Army Award for NOVA Night-Vision Systems
L3Harris Technologies has received a $55 million award from the U.S. Army to supply the NOVA night-vision goggle system for the Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD) program, the company announced on October 12, 2026, from Londonderry, New Hampshire. L3Harris said…
L3Harris Wins $250 Million Lockheed Martin GMLRS Propulsion Contract
L3Harris Technologies announced on October 12, 2026, that Lockheed Martin has awarded it a follow-on contract valued at $250 million to manufacture standard-range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) propulsion units. The contract will be fulfilled within the company’s new…
L3Harris Opens Amersfoort Engineering Office for FOXTROT Program
L3Harris Technologies has opened a regional engineering support office in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, the company announced on October 9, 2026, saying the location will directly support requirements of the 15-year FOXTROT tactical radio program as well as customer needs throughout…
Raytheon Wins Up To $6.3 Billion Deal To Build SM-3 Block IB Interceptors
Raytheon, an RTX business, has secured a five-year contract, with two additional option years, valued at up to $6.3 billion for the production and sustainment of Standard Missile-3 Block IB (SM-3 IB) interceptors, RTX announced on Thursday, October 8, 2026.…
L3Harris Wins NASA Contract for All-Glass LISA Test Telescope
L3Harris Technologies has been selected by NASA to design, assemble, integrate and test an all-glass telescope for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, the company announced on October 8, 2026. In an article published the same day, NASA identified…
L3Harris Invests Over $100 Million in Los Angeles Propulsion Expansion
L3Harris Technologies is investing more than $100 million in a self-funded expansion of its Canoga Park site in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles to increase manufacturing and assembly capacity for critical programs, according to a company announcement published…
