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Defense

The week to 26 July 2026

Twenty entries reached Defense in the seven days to 26 July 2026, from eight sources. The largest group was news items, at twelve. Sixteen companies were named, four of them more than once.

Contract award

3

RTXSupplier

RTX's Pratt & Whitney Canada awarded $1 billion JPATS sustainment contract

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

RTX newsroom

SikorskyOEM

Sikorsky: Federal or defense contract award, $3.0M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Allclear Aerospace & Defense, IncUnclassified

Allclear Aerospace & Defense, Inc: Federal or defense contract award, $808,740 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Aircraft order

2

EmbraerOEM

Embraer and Saab Sign Agreement for production of additional 20 Gripen in Brazil

Aircraft order

Embraer media center

Textron AviationOEM

Armed Forces of Malta Expand Fleet with Additional Beechcraft King Air 360ER for Maritime Patrol

Aircraft order

Textron Aviation media center

Product launch

3

BAE SystemsOEM

BAE Systems Unveils Brontanax Collaborative Combat Aircraft

Product launch

AIN

RTXSupplier

Raytheon UK unveils sovereign, digitally engineered precision weapon Red Kite

Product launch

RTX newsroom

EmbraerOEM

Embraer Announces New C-390 Millennium Training Capabilities for Sweden and Austria

Product launch

Embraer media center

News item

12

Shield AIUncrewed systems

Shield AI, GE Integrate Advanced Vectoring Nozzle For X-BAT Engine

News item

Aviation Today

Royal Air ForceGovernment

Royal Air Force Typhoon Rapidly Gains Anti-drone Capability with APKWS Missile

News item

AIN

MoogSupplier

Moog Receives FAA Nod for Autopilot on Black Hawk Helicopters

News item

AIN

German NavyUnclassified

German Navy Takes Delivery of Three P-8s

News item

AIN

Bombardier DefenseOEM

Sweden Signs for Bombardier Defense Support Deal

News item

AIN

BAE SystemsOEM

BAE Systems, Boeing, and Saab Team for UK Advanced Trainer Requirement

News item

AIN

SikorskyOEM

Sikorsky Adds Matrix Autonomy to Beta's MV250 Military VTOL

News item

AIN

Rolls-RoyceSupplier

The Consortium for the GCAP Power and Propulsion System progresses toward ground-testing engine demonstrator

News item

Rolls-Royce press releases

AndurilUncrewed systems

Archer and Anduril Join Chase for Hybrid-electric Defense Drone Market

News item

AIN

AirbusOEM

Airbus spearheads new E2D European defence tech fund

News item

Airbus newsroom

Where the week came from

eight sources supplied the 20 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.

SourceEntries
Aviation International News10
Embraer media center2
RTX newsroom2
USAspending.gov award data2
Airbus newsroom1
Aviation Today1
Rolls-Royce press releases1
Textron Aviation media center1

How this edition was put together

Every row is an entry in the record, fetched again at its source on the day the record was read and confirmed to carry its excerpt. The groups are the record's own event classes, ordered as a reader of this segment reads them rather than by score alone, and within a group by the record's score and then by date.

The counts on this page are arithmetic over those rows and nothing else. Nothing is added about a company that its own entry does not carry, and the edition is assembled by software, so no line here is an opinion about anyone. What gets in, and what does not is the standard the entries are held to.

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