Contract awards across defense and civilian agencies — who won, what for, and what it signals for the market.
GSA has expanded its OneGov deal with Anthropic, giving federal, state, local and tribal governments a 40% discount on token-based Claude usage with no minimum orders, as the $1-per-user offer expires Oct. 31.
Read the story →U.S. Special Operations Command will prototype Smack Technologies' Omega, an AI campaign-planning tool that repairs plans in seconds and runs without constant cloud links, under an Other Transaction agreement worth up to $7.5 million. The startup expects production across multiple branches in coming months.
USSOCOM awarded six companies, including Neros, DFA Systems, ModalAI, EchoMAV, XTEND and Vector, Phase III contracts under its Modular Kinetic Lethal Drone program. Awards range from $111,640 to $3.1 million, about $8.7 million in total, to mature small attritable FPV strike drones.
The Pentagon Office of Strategic Capital has committed a $150 million conditional loan to Stoke Space to build a second Nova launch pad at Cape Canaveral, tied to the company Series E and an early-2027 timeline.
The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $694 million contract Sept. 29 to produce and field the AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic missile, announcing it a month later and withholding quantities and delivery dates. FY2027 funding is stalled under a continuing resolution.
The Air Force released a draft solicitation for a $1.057 billion F-47 Future Campus at Nellis AFB, seeking up to four firms for an other transaction agreement in February 2027 and construction finishing in March 2031.
Army prices the Stryker EPDU-2 power-distribution retrofit kit with a $135.9M sole-bid modification to General Dynamics Land Systems, lifting contract W912CH-25-D-0050 to $162.4M through August 2030.
Army XRC program moves L3Harris into flight testing of a ramjet-powered long-range drone interceptor under a three-year contract worth up to $60 million from DEVCOM AvMC, with full value tied to continued funding.
Leidos will help U.S. Cyber Command plan and conduct offensive and defensive cyber operations under a $160 million OASIS+ task order, a win the company tied to its 2025 Kudu Dynamics acquisition.
The Navy picked Radiant Industries to build a 1-MW Kaleidos prototype microreactor at Naval Weapons Station Crane through the Army's Janus Program, with installation due by September 2028. It would be Indiana's first power-producing reactor.
The Air Force is funding $3.5M for Natilus's KONA blended-wing freighter, an optionally manned aircraft carrying just over 8,000 lb for 800 nm, aimed at the gap between converted Cessnas and the C-130 for dispersed Indo-Pacific logistics. Full-scale flight testing is slated for late 2027 or early 2028.
Space Systems Command awarded the first operational Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve contracts to six space domain awareness firms, including LeoLabs, Slingshot and Anduril, worth $1.37 million total, while shutter-control and indemnification terms remain unresolved.
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