Overview

• The Defense Department issued a more-than-$12.5 billion contract modification to Lockheed Martin to produce 296 F-35s across Lots 18 and 19.
• The U.S. Army awarded RTX an eight-year, $5.04 billion deal for Coyote drone interceptors, including kinetic and non-kinetic effectors, launchers, and Ku-band radars.
• The State Department approved a $705 million Foreign Military Sale of 48 HIMARS launchers and associated support to Australia, with DSCA notifying Congress.
• The U.S. Space Force declared L3Harris’ ATLAS space-domain awareness system operational for use by Space Operations Command’s Mission Delta 2.
• Governance and funding pressures persisted as GAO cited the lack of a comprehensive strategy for sole-source and IP issues, and the Pentagon detailed priority activities in a potential shutdown that could delay a planned Space Force contractor site visit.