Booz Allen Hamilton and Anduril announced that Booz Allen's mission software suite now runs natively on Anduril's Menace compute-and-communications hardware and integrates directly with Lattice, combining situational awareness, cyber, and radio frequency (RF) effects, and zero trust security on unified equipment operators can carry into forward areas — capabilities that historically lived on separate stacks with separate accreditation paths.

Booz Allen's Sit(x) situational awareness platform, its Dynamic Effects Tasking System (DETS) for cyber and RF operations, and its zero trust security solutions now run as Lattice-integrated applications on Menace, removing the need to switch between separate tools to identify, task, and act on targets. The zero-trust layer handles policy enforcement, logging, and security controls across all applications on the system.

All three integrations are live and on display at SOF Week 2026 in Tampa. The arrangement builds on a six-year collaboration and gives coalition teams a shared coordination layer, enabling partners using TAK-based and other architectures to share situational awareness without requiring common systems or new end-user training.

Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide spoke at the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting in Sweden this week, warning that Russian nuclear weapons based on the Kola Peninsula have the capacity to "destroy almost all American cities," and framing the alliance as a direct security benefit to the United States rather than a one-way commitment from Washington.

The Kola Peninsula borders Norway and serves as the primary base for Russia's Northern Fleet, which includes nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines. Eide's remarks came less than a day after President Trump reversed a canceled deployment to Poland, and amid broader friction over burden-sharing stemming from the Iran campaign.

Eide characterized Russia as the alliance's defining threat, assessed the battlefield situation in Ukraine as having "somewhat improved" for Kyiv, and described Ukraine as a security provider that has become the world leader in drone and counter-drone warfare, arguing those lessons carry implications for collective defense across the alliance.

Galvion unveiled the Cortex Evo at SOF Week 2026 in Tampa, presenting what the company describes as the next step in integrated head systems: a combat helmet that embeds power distribution, data connectivity, and processing directly within the ballistic structure itself, reducing reliance on externally mounted components and enabling more seamless interaction between sensing, visual, and communications systems.

The system architecture combines a ballistic core, embedded power and data pathways, and a lightweight composite shell, preserving the size, weight, and performance profile of a conventional ballistic helmet while establishing a compact, scalable foundation for future configurations. Galvion's AlertCentr software manages mission-relevant data at the headborne level.

The Cortex Evo builds on the original Cortex architecture, first introduced at SOF Week 2025, to create a more fully integrated platform designed for the digitized soldier. Galvion positions it as a modular, upgradable system built to support visual augmentation, audio and communications, sensing, and unified power and data infrastructure in a single headborne package.

Lockheed Martin broke ground on a new Munitions Production Center in Troy, Alabama, adding 87,000 square feet to support Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors and future Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) work, as part of a broader commitment of more than $9 billion in facility investment through 2030. The new Building 47 will nearly double the site's existing production space.

THAAD is currently operated by the United States, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia, and is the only U.S. system designed to intercept targets both inside and outside the atmosphere. It integrates with PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptors to provide expanded battlespace coverage, and Lockheed has more than 340,000 square feet of dedicated THAAD operations space across nine U.S. sites.

The groundbreaking follows a January 2026 framework agreement to quadruple THAAD production capacity and comes alongside prior agreements to triple PAC-3 MSE output and expand Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) production. Lockheed also announced additional planned groundbreakings in Alabama for NGI, AGM-158, and Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) facilities.

The Army will launch a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Marketplace within "a couple of weeks or a month-ish," Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told reporters, opening access to 25 allied nations and initially featuring unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and counter-drone technology pre-approved for foreign export and available for rapid, direct purchase.

The marketplace is modeled on the domestic drone marketplace launched in March in partnership with Amazon, and is designed to slash the time and complexity of the existing FMS process, which Army acquisition chief Brett Ingraham described as the most complex among the military services. A $2,000 drone, he said, should not require six months of FMS case review.

The effort was driven by a Trump executive order establishing an "America First Arms Transfer Strategy" that directed agencies to streamline arms exports and leverage allied purchases to expand U.S. production capacity. Initial access will span a mix of European and Indo-Pacific nations, with potential expansion over time and the possibility that allied-made systems could eventually be listed on the marketplace as well.

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