Breaking Defense
• Aaron Mehta
Breaking Defense reports: The CEOs of Honeywell Aerospace and Leonardo DRS separately told Breaking Defense they are expecting to spend on M&A activity in the near-term.
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FlightGlobal
• Dominic Perry
By FlightGlobal: Safran Aircraft Engines' goal for the T-Rex enhancement for its Dassault Aviation Rafale-powering M88 engine is to "deliver more thrust with minimal changes" to the design, according to the company's chief executive.
DefenseNews.com
• Rudy Ruitenberg
By DefenseNews.com: The French government announced a 10-year framework contract with Eutelsat worth as much as €1 billion to provide military-grade satellite communications.
Aviation Week
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Diehl Defence and Polaris have signed a cooperation agreement towards jointly pursuing innovative approaches for new airborne defence systems.
Breaking Defense
• Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
By Breaking Defense: In the service’s inaugural DASH experiment, coders from both industry and the Shadow Operations Center - Nellis (ShOC-N) spent two weeks building "agentic AI" tools that staff officers then tried out in high-pressure conflict scenarios.
Reuters
• William James
By Reuters: Pro-Palestinian activists broke into a Royal Air Force base in central England on Friday, damaging and spraying red paint over two planes used for refuelling and transport.
FlightGlobal
• Dominic Perry
By FlightGlobal: The industrial joint venture responsible for the design and development of a next-generation fighter through the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) is now officially up and running and has been named Edgewing.
DefenseNews.com
• Jen Judson
By DefenseNews.com: Saab has picked Anduril to produce solid rocket motors for the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb it produces with Boeing.
Breaking Defense
• Christina Mackenzie
FlightGlobal
• Flight Global
