US federal executive department overseeing the armed forces, formerly known as the Department of Defense before its 2025 renaming.
An unnamed foreign buyer is paying all $18.79 million of a Lockheed Martin F-35 variant modification due to finish in December 2030. One variant for one buyer is thin evidence for a platform-wide trend toward customization.
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Wolfspeed's conditional $1.5 billion Department of War loan would put its first $600 million into refinancing first-lien notes due in 2030. The later $900 million, for gallium nitride and radiation-hardening work, requires Wolfspeed to commit $600 million of a $750 million contribution.
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WEKA Federal's NeuralMesh won Awardable status on the Department of War's Tradewinds marketplace, so federal buyers can skip one technical review. Its claimed 20x training speedup comes with no published baseline, so agencies will have to test it on their own workloads.
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Neros says the Department of War ordered 14,000 drones worth more than $100 million. The Pentagon's leaderboard lists those slots as prototype-contract finalists with no guaranteed award, so the dollar value is Neros's own figure.
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DARPA selected Xint, one of three winners of its $29.5 million AIxCC contest, to research AI-driven security analysis of Department of War messaging apps. The work aims its automated find, triage and patch pipeline at messaging code and binaries the military actually runs.
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OpenAI and xAI now sit inside the Pentagon's own portal, where 1.7 million of 3 million staff already hold accounts. Anthropic won a contract in the same round and got no placement, which is where the gate actually sits.
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The August 28 concession hands 17 fields and an estimated 65 billion barrels of reserves to NABEP, whose current output is about 200,000 barrels a day against a target of roughly 500,000 by the end of 2028.
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Asus and Comtrend won the same conditional approval for their routers, but theirs expires on March 6, 2028. Buyers now have to check which series and which date cover the box they are ordering.
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A 2027 Colorado field test will try to show that quantum gravity gradiometry can rank targets before the rigs arrive. The site, the date and the success bar are all still unnamed.
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NODA AI says the Department of War awarded it $100 million. The government notice describes an open prize challenge worth up to $100 million across multiple awards.
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The August 12 partnership promises protection for data at rest, in transit and in use, plus a five-fold performance gain. The announcement names no mechanism and no baseline.
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The Defense Innovation Unit and Space Development Agency are funding a preliminary design only. Passing that review buys Firefly the right to compete for the flight, not the flight.
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