🚀 Rocket Lab Acquires GEOST, Expanding into Payload Capabilities

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🚀 Rocket Lab Acquires GEOST, Expanding into Payload Capabilities Read More

🛡️ Navy Deploys Coyote Loitering Drone Interceptors on Destroyers Read More

🇺🇸 America’s Drone Crisis: Why “Made in America” is Nearly Impossible Read More

🛰️ SpaceX Starshield to Support U.S. Army Missions Read More

✈️ New B-1B Bomber Task Force Deploys to Norway Read More

🎱 Plus 10 other news stories you may like

📰 Full Breakdown

🚀 Rocket Lab Acquires GEOST, Expanding into Payload Capabilities Read More

• GEOST adds missile warning, space domain awareness, and ISR payload expertise, giving Rocket Lab full stack from launch to on-orbit sensors.

• Vertical integration compresses schedules, lowers integration risk, and strengthens bids for sensitive national security missions.

• Combined offering enables turnkey constellations for U.S. and allied customers, bundling payloads, buses, launch, ground, and operations.

🛡️ Navy Deploys Coyote Loitering Drone Interceptors on Destroyers Read More

• Coyote interceptors give destroyers affordable hard-kill options against drones and swarms, preserving expensive SAM inventories.

• Networked with ship sensors and soft-kill tools, Coyotes deepen layered defense and expand engagement envelopes in congested, cluttered seas.

• Deployment formalizes maritime counter-UAS doctrine, accelerating TTPs, logistics, and seeker upgrades across high-risk theaters.

🇺🇸 America’s Drone Crisis: Why “Made in America” is Nearly Impossible Read More

• Reshoring drone production faces chokepoints in sensors, batteries, and flight controllers, with many components sourced from China.

• Policy fixes require durable demand, standards, and test infrastructure; without volume, domestic suppliers struggle to scale competitively.

• Interim mitigation favors modular designs, open interfaces, and verifiable firmware to swap parts and reduce single-vendor dependency.

🛰️ SpaceX Starshield to Support U.S. Army Missions Read More

• Starshield layers military protections over commercial LEO, offering secure comms, hosted payloads, and rapid tasking for Army units.

• Commercial cadence promises faster refresh and experimentation, improving resilience, throughput, and beyond-line-of-sight connectivity.

• Success hinges on waveform interoperability, cyber accreditation, and integration with mission command under contested spectrum conditions.

✈️ New B-1B Bomber Task Force Deploys to Norway Read More

• Rotation to Ørland advances Arctic European integration, enabling long-range strike training, dispersal drills, and cold-weather operations.

• Sorties will drill maritime targeting, dynamic tasking, and NATO C2 interoperability with fighters, tankers, and maritime patrol aircraft.

• Forward presence signals flexible strike capacity without permanent basing, reinforcing deterrence and allied assurance across the region.

🌏 Other Important News

🛰️ Space

• Edge Group to help grow satellite industrial base in the UAE Read More

• Umbra expands into satellite hardware with new Space Systems unit Read More

💻 Cyber

• Researchers detail new gray-zone, AI-driven Chinese propaganda campaign Read More

🏛️ Policy & Geopolitics

• “This isn’t how wars are ended”: veteran diplomat critiques Trump-Putin summit Read More

• How Trump’s D.C. takeover could supercharge surveillance Read More

• Trump mobilizes D.C. National Guard, likely for security/logistics roles Read More

• Trump federalizes D.C. police, says move enables federal employees to work in peace Read More

🛡️ Land

• Army eyeing fall release of new air and missile defense strategy Read More

• Mack Defense to supply 450 trucks to the U.S. Army Read More

• Canada approves sale of tactical vehicles to the U.S. Army Read More

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