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Defense

The week to 20 August 2026

Twelve entries reached Defense in the seven days to 20 August 2026, from four sources. The largest group was news items, at six. Twelve companies were named, eight of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried 30, eighteen more.

Contract award

4

US ArmyGovernment

U.S. Army Awards Raft $99M Enterprise Contract to Accelerate Delivery of Data and AI Capabilities

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

PR Newswire

L3HarrisDefense electronics

Peru Selects L3Harris Electronic Warfare System for F-16 Fleet

Contract award

L3Harris newsroom

Hanwha AerospaceOEM

Hanwha Wins U.S. Army Mobile Tactical Cannon Contract

Contract award

PR Newswire

CodeMettleSoftware

CodeMettle Awarded IDIQ Contract to Field Terminus as Part of the Army's Tactical Network Operations Solution

Contract award

PR Newswire

Funding round

2

Defense Tech Company LyntrisUnclassified

Defense Tech Company Lyntris Raises $297.5 Million in IPO: NYSE Content Update

Funding round

PR Newswire

CastelionDefense electronics

Castelion Raises $1 Billion Series C to Scale Production of Low-Cost Hypersonic Weapons

Funding round

PR Newswire

News item

6

Lyntris IncUnclassified

Lyntris Inc. Announces Pricing of its Initial Public Offering

News item

PR Newswire

Lockheed MartinOEM

Taiwan’s first F-16 Block 70 fighters seen departing Lockheed factory

News item

FlightGlobal

Firefly AerospaceSpace

Trident Solutions has partnered with SciTec to Deliver Advanced Edge Mission Data Processing Capabilities

News item

PR Newswire

Robinson HelicopterOEM

Robinson R66 Chosen as New U.S. Army Flight School Next Trainer

News item · MRO and aftermarket

AIN

Sidus SpaceSpace

SIDUS SPACE REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2026 FINANCIAL RESULTS

News item

PR Newswire

Shield AIUncrewed systems

Shield AI scores $50m X-Bat investment from US Navy

News item

FlightGlobal

Where the week came from

four sources supplied the 12 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.

SourceEntries
PR Newswire, Aerospace and Defense8
FlightGlobal2
Aviation International News1
L3Harris 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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