🚀 Lockheed's PAC-3 agreement grows to $58.6 billion

Amazon researchers tied a single North Korean group to four open-source compromises dating to March 2025, including axios, which developers download more than 100 million times weekly.
In each case the hackers deceived a trusted maintainer, then published a poisoned update that organizations set to auto-update pulled straight into production systems.
Amazon warns attackers now split payloads across several individually harmless packages and use AI to fake documentation and developer profiles, making single-package review nearly useless.

The Army added $53.9 billion to Lockheed Martin's Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) agreement, raising the seven-year total to $58.6 billion.
The award converts April's one-year, $4.7 billion undefinitized contract into a fiscal 2026 through 2032 framework, letting Lockheed triple PAC-3 output by the end of 2030.
Camden, Arkansas, grows from roughly 1,200 to 1,850 workers, giving suppliers a demand signal firm enough to fund capacity while munitions appropriations remain unsettled.

The Space Force awarded SpaceX two task orders worth $1.6 billion covering 18 Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base through the end of 2027.
The payloads support the Space Based Sensing and Targeting portfolio, which tracks airborne moving targets and moves sensor data across the joint force in near real time.
It is the first order since the Space Force raised its National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 1 ceiling by $11.4 billion on July 17.

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Ukraine's Brave1 defense technology cluster and NATO opened applications Tuesday for their first joint innovation grant program, targeting first-person-view (FPV) and Shahed-type drones.
Funding goes only to joint ventures pairing one Ukrainian company with a firm from a NATO member state, a structure that forces technology transfer in both directions.
Brave1 named five priority areas: active protection against FPVs, affordable counter-Shahed systems, electromagnetic support for signals intelligence, electromagnetic attack, and high-altitude interception.

BLADE is offering Dire WOLF, a diesel-electric hybrid unmanned ground vehicle carrying thousands of pounds of supplies, as one of five entrants in the Army's Project Sustainment initiative.
Built on the WOLF-X robotic combat vehicle, it climbs two-foot vertical obstacles and rides Michelin airless Tweels, removing flat tires as a failure mode on debris-strewn ground.
An onboard battery pack exports power to communications gear, electronic warfare suites, and counter-drone systems, making the vehicle a mobile generator as well as a hauler.

Starfighters Space is advancing Wind Tunnel in the Sky, a reusable modular underwing platform that carries test hardware through sustained Mach 2 flight on its F-104 fleet.
Ground wind tunnels deliver seconds-long test windows; the company says a single 45-minute sortie can expose sensors, avionics, and advanced materials to real atmospheric conditions.
With government hypersonic test capacity scarce, the platform positions commercial supersonic aircraft as an on-demand alternative for defense, space, and research customers.

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