The US Army plans to launch an online foreign military sales marketplace, allowing allied nations to rapidly purchase American-made defense equipment through a simplified digital platform.
Washington’s Uniformed Services University has introduced a military medicine research center focused on warfighter readiness and combat casualty recovery.
Australia will retire its Leonardo C-27J Spartan military transport aircraft and replace them with commercial airframes as part of the country’s latest defense strategy.
The UK Royal Navy’s Wildcat helicopter crews have trained alongside unmanned aerial systems during the three-week Tamber Shield exercise in Norway’s fjords, focused on countering high-speed littoral threats.
The US Air Force Special Operations Command has integrated the GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb into MQ-9 Reaper drones, adding a long-range precision strike capability designed for contested environments.
AeroVironment has expanded its AV_Halo mission software suite with two new capabilities designed to improve decision-making in contested and electronically degraded environments.
Teledyne FLIR Defense pulled the curtain back on the upgraded loitering munition at Special Operations Forces 2026, adding longer range, improved autonomy, and a new anti-armor payload.
Troops can now run mission systems and AI-enabled tools directly from body-worn gear instead of relying on computers at command posts, thanks to Anduril Industries’ Voyager Gateway 1.