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Defense

The week to 9 August 2026

Six entries reached Defense in the seven days to 9 August 2026, from five sources. The largest group was contract awards, at two. Six companies were named, four of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried eight, two more.

Contract award

2

SafranSupplier

Safran: Federal or defense contract award, $342,750 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Airbus HelicoptersOEM

Airbus Helicopters: Federal or defense contract award, $803,265 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Product launch

1

LeonardoOEM

Leonardo CEO Eyes Expedited GCAP Entry Into Service

Product launch

AIN

Merger or acquisition

1

EmbraerOEM

Colombia Acquires the KC-390 Millennium to Modernize its Airlift and Aerial Refueling Capabilities

Merger or acquisition

Embraer media center

Facility expansion

1

Performance Drone WorksUncrewed systems

DoD Makes Potential $820 Million Loan Commitment To Drone Company To Mass Produce Components

Facility expansion

Aviation Today

News item

1

RTXSupplier

RTX's Raytheon and Composite Energy Technology successfully demonstrate new unmanned undersea vehicle

News item

RTX newsroom

Where the week came from

five sources supplied the 6 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.

SourceEntries
USAspending.gov award data2
Aviation International News1
Aviation Today1
Embraer media center1
RTX newsroom1

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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