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The week to 13 August 2026

30 entries reached Defense in the seven days to 13 August 2026, from eight sources. The largest group was contract awards, at sixteen. 25 companies were named, four of them more than once, 21 of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried eleven, nineteen fewer.

Contract award

16

Space KineticSpace

Space Kinetic Awarded $50M by Space Force for Space Maneuverability and Space Architecture Technology

Contract award

PR Newswire

Agile DefenseServices

Agile Defense awarded $250 million for Navy Logistics IT Modernization

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

PR Newswire

RTXSupplier

RTX's Raytheon awarded $745 million contract for SM-3 IIA interceptors

Contract award

RTX newsroom

Lockheed MartinOEM

Lockheed Martin Wins MDA Contract to Modernize Missile Defense Modeling & Simulation Platform

Contract award

Lockheed Martin newsroom

GE AerospaceSupplier

GE Aerospace: Federal or defense contract award, $2.9M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Airbus HelicoptersOEM

Airbus Helicopters: Federal or defense contract award, $1.5M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

SikorskyOEM

Sikorsky: Federal or defense contract award, $9.7M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Hornet Acquisitionco, LLCUnclassified

Hornet Acquisitionco, LLC: Federal or defense contract award, $1.1M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

SikorskyOEM

Sikorsky: Federal or defense contract award, $789,830 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Mission Systems Davenport IncUnclassified

Mission Systems Davenport Inc: Federal or defense contract award, $871,311 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

SafranSupplier

Safran: Federal or defense contract award, $606,400 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Specmat Technologies, IncUnclassified

Specmat Technologies, Inc: Federal or defense contract award, $782,184 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Parker AerospaceSupplier

Parker Aerospace: Federal or defense contract award, $445,138 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

OnticSupplier

Ontic: Federal or defense contract award, $780,787 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

SafranSupplier

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

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Safetech Usa, IncUnclassified

Safetech Usa, Inc: Federal or defense contract award, $282,400 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Product launch

1

Lockheed MartinOEM

Lockheed Martin Announces Strigo™ and New Product Center of Missile Technology Solutions to Support the Arsenal of Freedom

Product launch

Lockheed Martin newsroom

News item

13

US Coast GuardGovernment

Postal Service to Issue Commemorative Stamp for U.S. Coast Guard Academy Milestone

News item

PR Newswire

Ultra MaritimeDefense electronics

Ultra Maritime Demonstrates Future Autonomous Counter-UUV and Anti-Submarine Warfare Detection

News item

PR Newswire

Rolls-RoyceSupplier

Rolls-Royce expands partnership with Marand and establishes regional Defence Headquarters in Canberra

News item

Rolls-Royce press releases

FortastraSpace

Fortastra Taps 20-Year Space Force Veteran to Lead National Security Product Strategy

News item

PR Newswire

US Department of DefenseGovernment

Irish DoD Confirms No Falcon 6X Capability Limitations without EFVS

News item

AIN

L3HarrisDefense electronics

L3Harris Demonstrates Multi-Domain Supremacy at Annual Project Convergence Exercise

News item

L3Harris newsroom

RTXSupplier

RTX's Raytheon awarded seven-year contract for Tomahawk cruise missiles

News item

RTX newsroom

SaabOEM

Swedish Air Force Eyes Expedited Saab Gripen Fighter Turnaround Times

News item

AIN

Collins AerospaceAvionics

RTX's Collins Aerospace to support modernization of U.S. Army's Chinook helicopters

News item · MRO and aftermarket

RTX newsroom

Robinson HelicopterOEM

Robinson Unmanned Advances Through U.S. Drone Dominance Program

News item

AIN

Lockheed MartinOEM

Lockheed Martin Announces Successful Static-Fire Test of Next Generation Interceptor's Stage 2 Motor

News item

Lockheed Martin newsroom

GogoAvionics

Gogo reports second-quarter revenue of $222.8m

News item

Corporate Jet Investor

General DynamicsOEM

General Dynamics elects Danny Deep to board of directors

News item

Corporate Jet Investor

Where the week came from

eight sources supplied the 30 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.

SourceEntries
USAspending.gov award data12
PR Newswire, Aerospace and Defense5
Aviation International News3
Lockheed Martin newsroom3
RTX newsroom3
Corporate Jet Investor2
L3Harris newsroom1
Rolls-Royce press releases1

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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