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DEFENSE & AEROSPACE
Pentagon software projects canceled after $800M investment.
POTUS has canceled two nearly completed HR platforms for the Navy and Air Force, totaling $800M over 12 years. Officials say rebidding the work could bring in more modern solutions from firms like Salesforce and Palantir.
Army bets big on 3D printing for logistics and drones.
From 10,000 drone bodies a month to 1,500 spare parts already printed, the Army is scaling up additive manufacturing to support battlefield logistics and ISR. Officials say they’re “walking” now—but plan to be “running very, very soon.” Industry partners, your printers may be summoned.
DLA and Air Force: New working group targets bomber readiness.
At its first Bombers Directorate Working Group, DLA Land and Maritime joined forces with the Air Force to tackle sustainment for the B-1B and B-2 fleets. With 59,000 parts in play and overseas ops on the line, the two-day Ohio summit focused on forecasting, funding, and keeping stealth in the sky.
ICYMI:
Army RFI: FY26 Management Analysis Support Services.
USAF RFI: Ground Based Radar Digitization.
DOD is invested in legacy platform repairs and training.
DOD contractor evaluations: Congress pushes for negative-only scoring.
Defense Contract Awards
Lockheed Martin won a $4.2B Army contract for production of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System.
BAH inked a $1.6B Intelligence Analysis contract.
Nemean Solutions secured a $57M USAF Contractor Support deal.
USAF awarded Cubic Defense a Procurement, Integration, Deployment and Sustainment contract.
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LMI named its Sensor Mesh Solutions VP.
BlackSea Technologies’ Board has a new member.
Defense Job Openings
Army is seeking a Criminal Investigation Division Director.
USACE is hiring a Project Manager.
TRIVIA 🤔
Which U.S. intelligence agency is reported to have the largest budget, even though it employs almost no federal staff?
Just click the choice you think is right & the correct answer will be shown. Scroll down to the bottom of this email for more information about the correct answer.
INTEL COMMUNITY
TRANSCOM ICAM shift: All systems go by year’s end.
USTRANSCOM is ditching its patchwork identity setup and racing to align 50+ systems with a DOD-approved provider by fiscal year’s end. Granular access needs—especially for foreign and commercial partners.
ICYMI:
DOS RFI: Natively Integrated Digital Security Platform (NIDSP).
USTRANSCOM RFP: IT Enterprise Modernization (ITEM) Solutions.
NATO RFI: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analytics Project.
Want to crack the CIA’s famous “Kryptos” puzzle? Its secret key is up for sale.
Blackwatch booked a $14.9M FBI AVENGER contract.
Agile Defense wins $118M RAPID MyUSCIS Platform Support contact.
DHS names an Executive Director of the Office of Innovation, Collaboration.
CIVILIAN
DHS centralizes control over the government’s largest biometrics database.
DHS has centralized oversight of the federal government’s largest biometrics repository—containing over 300 million facial, fingerprint, and iris profiles—by transferring control of the Office of Biometric Identity Management to DHS’s Chief Information Officer. This shift aims to modernize the aging IDENT system and accelerate implementation of the new HART initiative.
E.O. streamlines space rules, sidelines NASA authority.
A new E.O. aims to supercharge U.S. commercial space by slashing launch regulations, fast-tracking spaceport construction, and promoting orbital tech like refueling and microgravity manufacturing.
DOE offering a $1B boost for critical minerals supply chain.
DOE plans to issue nearly $1B in funding to scale domestic mining, processing, and manufacturing of critical minerals like lithium, gallium, and rare earths. Five initiatives target everything from semiconductors to scrap recovery.
ICYMI:
NOAA RFP: Space Weather Observations - MOS.
NSF and NVIDIA collaborate to advance open AI model development.
DOT revised the National EV Infrastructure Guidance.
GAO on robots in space: Transforming satellite repairs and junk removal.
SSA said it removed strict ID requirements on its phone line, but internal policy says otherwise.
Civilian Contracts Awards
Follow Civilian Leaders
ITC Federal selected a new DOJ Customer Relations VP.
Parsons has a new SVP, Program Director.
Civilian Job Openings
The USCG needs an Ops Tech Director.
The Judicial Branch wants a Deputy Controller.
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M&A CORNER
Rocket Lab acquires Geost to power defense payloads.
Rocket Lab spent $275M to acquire Geost and its missile-tracking EO/IR tech, aiming to deliver full-stack, mission-ready spacecraft for U.S. defense programs like Golden Dome.
Coherent to sell aerospace and defense business to Advent.
Photonics company Coherent has reached an agreement to sell its aerospace and defense business to Advent, a global private equity investor. The aerospace and defense business will transition to a new name at a later date but will remain under the Coherent brand until then.
Arlington forms govtech platform provider Neumo.
Arlington Capital Partners has established Neumo, a company that offers a suite of cloud-based platforms meant to help governments modernize operations and improve the quality of services and interactions with their communities. Arlington said it formed Neumo by merging Avenu Insights & Analytics and Intellectual Technology Inc. (ITI) with the newly acquired GovOS.
ICYMI:
Auria launched Cyntros.
SHOWER THOUGHTS 🚿
Does Instagram’s new location tracker put users at risk? DOD says that military personnel and their families aren’t at risk…at this time. SOURCE↗︎
Can you create and apply human skin…from a syringe? A new technology could enable innovative treatments for burns and serious injuries. SOURCE↗︎
Can this new deep space radar track super-far-away satellites in space? Three Earth-based sites will keep tabs on what’s happening in orbit. SOURCE↗︎
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TRIVIA ANSWER ⭐️
D) The NRO — The NRO designs, builds, and launches spy satellites for the U.S. government—and does it all with contractors instead of a large in-house workforce. Their budget is secret, but it’s known to be BIG. Also interesting — the CIA has a substantially bigger budget than DARPA, likely resulting in more significant contracting dollars being allocated to the CIA.
