Colin Reyes

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• Army Sets 2029 Target for Palletized M-SHORAD Increment 4 Air Defense
  Policy · 2026-11-11

  The Army wants a battalion equipped with palletized M-SHORAD Increment 4 air defenses by Dec. 31, 2029. The vehicle-agnostic SLED must defeat drones from quadcopters to Shahed 136s…

• Navy T-45 Replacement Down to One Bidder as SNC Exits UJTS, Leaving Textron-Leonardo M-346N
  Awards · 2026-11-09

  Sierra Nevada Corporation skipped the Oct. 30 UJTS proposal deadline, saying it could not responsibly bid under the current contract structure. That leaves Textron Aviation Defense…

• $665M Army Counter-Drone Task Order Faces Second Oasis Protest at GAO
  Protests · 2026-11-09

  Oasis Systems filed a new GAO protest Nov. 5 over the Army's $665M C-UAS task order to Parsons, arguing the solicitation no longer reflects Army needs after integration work moved …

• $150M Pentagon Loan Commitment Backs LeoLabs Push to Build Dozens More Space-Tracking Radars
  Awards · 2026-11-06

  The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital offered LeoLabs a conditional loan of up to $150 million, matched by private money for $300 million total, to complete two U.S. manufactu…

• $4.17B Army Ammunition-Plant MATOC Seats All 11 Bidders
  Awards · 2026-11-06

  The Army put 11 firms, every bidder, on a $4,171,491,000 design-build MATOC to modernize government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition plants. Awardee CSG says the work spans se…

• Air Force Seeks Industry Makers for 1,000-Plus ERAM Cruise Missiles for Ukraine, First Deliveries Due 3 Months After Award
  Awards · 2026-11-05

  The Air Force has issued an RFI, with responses due Nov. 19, asking who can mass-produce the low-cost ERAM cruise missile for Ukraine. It wants first deliveries within three months…

• $80M Air Force Nuclear Mission-Planning Software Order Goes to Lockheed on a Single Bid
  Awards · 2026-11-05

  Lockheed Martin received a maximum $80M Alliant 2 task order to sustain and modernize the Air Force SMPES Global Strike Product Support software suite at Offutt AFB through January…

• Air Force Nuclear Advisory Contract Keeps Top Secret Clearance Bar After GAO Rejects Sawdey Challenge
  Protests · 2026-11-04

  GAO denied Sawdey Solution Services' protest of an Air Force requirement that offerors hold an active Top Secret facility clearance at proposal submission on an advisory contract s…

• $13M Cybersecurity Settlement Hits ILC Dover and ILC Astrospace Over Army, MDA and NASA Contracts
  Enforcement · 2026-11-04

  ILC Dover and ILC Astrospace will pay $13 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they billed the Army, Missile Defense Agency and NASA while missing contract cybersec…

• $53.9M Navy Remote Mine Hunting Award Goes to Thales Unit AAC, With Options to $196.2M
  Awards · 2026-11-04

  Thales subsidiary Advanced Acoustic Concepts will build two Remote Mine Hunting modules for the Navy under a $53.9M contract, pairing SAMDIS 600 synthetic aperture sonar with AI ta…

• Space Force Eyes Up to Five Cislunar Seed Satellites for Late-2029 Launch
  Policy · 2026-11-03

  A Nov. 2 Space Force notice seeks up to five satellites for cislunar space, ready to launch by late 2029, to shape a future proliferated Cislunar Space System. Design funding could…

• Navy Must Reevaluate Saildrone's MUSV Bid, Production Capped at $1.5B Until It Does
  Protests · 2026-11-03

  A Court of Federal Claims judge found Saildrone was unfairly excluded from the Navy's MUSV Other Transaction competition, according to Saildrone. Until the Navy reevaluates, it can…

• $83.4M Air Force Helmet Deal Moves LIFT Airborne From Test Orders to a 10-Year Production Vehicle
  Awards · 2026-11-02

  The Air Force awarded LIFT Airborne Technologies an $83.4M ceiling IDIQ for development, qualification, production and fielding of its next generation fixed-wing helmet. The SBIR P…

• ESSM Block 2 Deliveries Hit 1,000 as NATO SeaSparrow Output Doubles Since 2025
  Awards · 2026-11-02

  The Navy's NATO SEASPARROW Program delivered the 1,000th ESSM Block 2 missile for the 12-nation consortium, doubling cumulative deliveries since a 500th missile in June 2025. Rayth…

• DARPA Taps Concurrent Technologies for $2M Push to Red-Team AI in Military Drones
  Awards · 2026-11-01

  Concurrent Technologies Corp. and affiliate EVC won a nearly $2 million, two-year, competitively bid DARPA contract to build methods for red-teaming AI/ML autonomous systems such a…

• DIU Adds $54M to Kongsberg Prototype Agreement for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  Awards · 2026-11-01

  The Defense Innovation Unit modified its Prototype Other Transaction Agreement with Norway's Kongsberg by USD 54 million, driven mainly by delivery of a broad range of autonomous u…

• Army Project Griffin Pilot Puts $2.6M Into Agentic AI Cyber Defense With AWS and WWT
  Awards · 2026-11-01

  The Army picked Amazon Web Services and World Wide Technology for Project Griffin, a $2.6M combined pilot to build agentic AI that detects and counters network threats faster than …

• $150M Pentagon MURI Round Funds 20 University Teams in Quantum, Hypersonics
  Awards · 2026-11-01

  The Department of War announced $150 million in FY2026 MURI awards to 20 teams at 57 universities, averaging $7.5 million over five years, picked from 451 white papers and 74 full …

• Army Taps Lockheed PAC-3 Edge for $1B-Plus Future Interceptor Prototype Deal
  Awards · 2026-10-30

  The Army selected Lockheed Martin for its Future Interceptor program under an Other Transaction agreement valued above $1 billion, with Lockheed expected to fund $423 million and t…

• $269M Landing Ship Medium Order Brings Hanwha Philly Shipyard Into Navy Shipbuilding
  Awards · 2026-10-30

  TOTE Services, the Navy's vessel construction manager for the Landing Ship Medium, picked Hanwha Defense USA to build one LSM at Hanwha Philly Shipyard for $269 million, with optio…