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The week to 13 September 2026

Seventeen entries reached Defense in the seven days to 13 September 2026, from eight sources. The largest group was contract awards, at nine. Fourteen companies were named, three of them more than once, fourteen of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried two, fifteen fewer.

Contract award

9

Aircraft order

1

Product launch

2

News item

5

Where the week came from

eight sources supplied the 17 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.

SourceEntries
USAspending.gov award data7
Aviation International News2
Draganfly newsroom2
L3Harris newsroom2
Airbus newsroom1
Firefly Aerospace newsroom1
Shield AI newsroom1
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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