


Germany, Israel’s No. 2 arms dealer, halts exports over Gaza concerns
Germany accounted for around 30% of Israel’s arms imports between 2019 and 2023, second only to the United States.

Unmanned
Cummings fine-tunes Hellhound drone for Golden Dome mission
Cummings Aerospace has designed a larger version of its Hellhound to meet Golden Dome homeland missile defense needs.

Boeing expands drone exams to Lockheed C-5 with eye on broader fleet
"You just can't do this stuff in a simulated environment," Boeing's Scott Belanger said of the Autonomous Aircraft Inspection initiative.

Rheinmetall Italia touts Ukraine deployment of Skynex air defense gun
The company hopes that the system's use in combat will lend it credibility in the competitive counter-drone and missile-defense market.

No more ‘must-wins’: Defense firms growing warier of fixed-price deals
Multiple defense firms are slamming fixed-price contracts as bad deals, and warning they might walk away from such competitions.

US Army seeks new interceptor to counter cruise missiles
The service plans to take vendors into a competition from FY25 through FY27 to procure its second interceptor for the Indirect Fire Protection Capability.

Naval Group pitches autonomous systems as key to underwater operations
But for high-end operations, "you need to have both manned and unmanned assets complement each other."

Pentagon to brief industry on Replicator status at tech summit
The Feb. 13 event will focus broadly on scaling autonomous systems and deepening connections among DIU, the commercial sector and other Pentagon offices.

Canada readies for new, smaller truck fleet
Negotiations are ongoing and specific details of the contract won’t be available until it is signed later this year.

Defense technology firms watch new strategy for ‘generational’ change
Many firms say they were glad to see their priorities in the National Defense Industrial Strategy. What matters more is how the department implements it.

Northrop harnesses machine learning to aid Space Force missile parsing
The False Track Reduction Using Machine Learning system is trained on real-world data and can be amended as foreign militaries advance their arsenals.
