🧪 Pentagon pays Biosphere $21M to brew chemicals with microbes

The Army selected Amazon Web Services and World Wide Technology for Project Griffin, a $2.6M pilot building AI-enabled cyber defense under its rapid cyber development program.

The pair beat more than 100 industry submissions, and WWT will team with Crogl to connect AI agents to the tools and data cyber teams already use.

The Army wants agents that act on network sensor data to detect, divert, and deceive attackers faster than any human operator can.

The Pentagon awarded California startup Biosphere $21M to build a 20,000-liter bioreactor where genetically engineered microbes produce essential chemicals for military supplies. breakingdefense

Biosphere sterilizes its reactors with UV light, and the award lands less than six months after a $9M Army deal for a portable bioreactor that makes protein from air and water. breakingdefense

The contract also funds engineering and economic analyses for larger deployments, part of a Pentagon push to rebuild chemical production offshored to suppliers like China.

Saab unveiled the Sea Giraffe AMB D, a naval radar that detects, tracks, and classifies crewed and uncrewed targets across both air and surface domains.

It spots aerial threats out to 250 kilometers and surface targets within 50, using an active electronically scanned array hardened against jamming and spoofing.

A modular, software-based design lets navies integrate it with existing ship systems and upgrade it as threats evolve.

Israeli firm Silynxcom is developing a soldier-worn AI detector that identifies drones by their sound rather than radio signals, currently at prototype stage.

Acoustic detection can catch fiber-optic-guided drones that RF sensors miss, and a planned mesh network would push one soldier’s alert across the whole platoon.

The company is building a dedicated drone team on top of its tactical headset line but has set no fielding timeline.

Michigan automotive component maker JVIS opened JVIS Defense and Aerospace, a standalone business separate from its commercial operation. breakingdefense

Its first contract, worth $13.2M from the Army’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, covers a “Silent Watch” auxiliary power unit. breakingdefense

JVIS joins Ford, GM, Pratt Miller, Roush, and startup Salient Motion in Michigan’s push to turn automotive manufacturing into defense production. breakingdefense

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