US Space Force declared its new Meadowlands system operationally accepted June 8, adding an L3Harris-built ground weapon that jams hostile satellites without destroying them.

The trailer-mounted, C-130-transportable system beams high-power counter-signals at satellite antennas, disrupting an adversary's uplink commands, telemetry, and data links.

Nearly $460 million in fiscal 2027 funding will grow the fleet toward 32 units, expanding the Space Force's non-destructive counterspace arsenal.

Italian investigators broke up an alleged Russian GRU espionage ring in Rome, arresting two former Italian intelligence officers accused of selling military secrets.

Wiretaps show the ring sought details on Ukraine's Samp-T air defenses, the MBDA CAMM-ER missile, and Leonardo's forthcoming Michelangelo Dome system.

Italy expelled two Russian military attaches in response, calling it part of a broader Russian hybrid campaign against European defense institutions.

The Pentagon awarded $86 million in Joint Laser Weapon System deals to nLIGHT Defense and Lockheed Martin Aculight to counter drone swarms and cruise missiles.

Initial 150-kilowatt containerized prototypes will scale toward 300 to 500 kilowatts for cruise missile defense, under a program with an $847 million ceiling.

The modular, ground-and-naval design aims to field directed energy across combatant commands faster as counter-drone demand accelerates industry-wide.

Space Force added Impulse Space and Relativity Federal to its National Security Space Launch Lane 1 contract, growing the roster to seven providers.

Each firm receives a $5 million task order to assess capabilities and mission assurance before competing against SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other incumbents.

Officials expect up to 100 national security launches over five years, part of demand the service projects could reach 3,000 launches by 2036.

The Marine Corps activated two new drone warfare units, based at Quantico, Virginia, and Twentynine Palms, California, to test tactics and train deploying forces.

The Twentynine Palms-based Marine Corps Robotics Integration Group will build training and certification standards for unmanned systems ahead of real-world deployments.

The Quantico counter-drone team pairs with an existing attack drone team, feeding lessons to the robotics group as small drones proliferate on battlefields.

Accenture Federal Services won a five-year, $821 million task order to provide core integration support for the Pentagon's new War Data Platform.

The platform grew out of the Advana data program, restructured this year under a CDAO memo into DOD's common AI-enabled data foundation.

The award is the first major War Data Platform acquisition made public since a prior follow-on contract effort was scrapped in 2025.

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