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SOF GLSS 2 provides a wide range of mission-critical services to the US Special Operations community. Credit: Lockheed Martin Corporation. Lockheed Martin has been named the prime contractor for the US Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) Global Logistics Support Services II (GLSS2) programme.   The 12-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, first announced by the Department of War (DoW), carries a ceiling value of $10.53bn.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Awarded by the Department of War, the contract funds a follow-on effort to previous Special Operations Forces…

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EU-China relations are being defined in two very different ways at the same time.  On June 29, during Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao’s visit to Brussels, the EU and China reached a mutually agreed new definition of their economic relations – “stable and balanced key trading partners.” To give substance to the term, the two sides launched a trade and investment consultation mechanism (TIC), which consists of trade and investment balancing, export controls, intellectual property rights, and WTO reform. This new definition has since appeared multiple times in Chinese outlets and official statements, including People’s Daily, the Ministry of Commerce,…

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Image of the Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile (RAACM) developed by CoAspire, one the the Pentagon’s three FAMM contractors. Credit: CoAspire. The Pentagon has initiated the production phase of its Family of Affordable Mass Missiles FAMM emerged in late 2025, to provide air-launched cruise missiles at a fraction of the cost of current exquisite weapons Anduril, CoAspire and Zero 5 will build lugged and palletised munition variants to be launched from fighter jets and dropped by transport aircraft The US Department of War has set up three framework agreements with contractors to rapidly validate a new family of low-cost, air-launched…

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President Donald Trump used newly declassified intelligence Thursday night to revive his claims about 2020 election issues, pointing to findings that China possessed or analyzed more than 200 million U.S. voter records. But the documents do not appear to subvert the intelligence community’s prior conclusions that China did not alter votes or interfere with the results of the election.The declassified records provide substantially more detail about Chinese intelligence collection involving U.S. voter data and reveal internal debate within the intelligence community over how analysts should characterize Beijing’s election-related activities.But many of the documents reviewed by Nextgov/FCW do not appear to contradict…

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Ukraine ordered Gripen E fighter aircraft from Sweden. Credit: Saab. The UK government has announced a €300m ($405m) investment to support the delivery of 16 Swedish Gripen E multirole fighter jets to Ukraine.  The funding package, revealed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, will contribute to the construction and delivery of the aircraft, along with comprehensive pilot and engineer training, simulators, spare parts, and frontline operational equipment.   Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more According to UK Ministry of Defence statements, the UK’s participation is…

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The flight demonstration marks a major milestone in autonomous electronic warfare. Credit: L3Harris Technologies, Inc. L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI have conducted the first live flight trial of their Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DiSCO) system.   The demonstration used Shield AI’s Hivemind mission-autonomy software onboard an L3Harris Green Wolf uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), enabling the platform to autonomously detect and respond to electromagnetic threats.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more According to both companies, the test took place at a live range where…

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