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1 day ago | insidedefense.com | Jason Sherman

The Pentagon has quietly canceled a long-anticipated industry engagement on space-based missile interceptors, dealing another setback to the Trump administration's push to rapidly launch the most ambitious element of its new national missile defense initiative, Golden Dome. On June 3, the Missile Defense Agency terminated the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) Industry Engagement event, originally planned for late April in Huntsville, AL.

2 days ago | insidedefense.com | Dan Schere

The Pentagon's Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) conducted its latest demonstration in April, in which vendors brought counter-drone technologies that operated in contested electromagnetic environments, officials explained to reporters during a virtual roundtable today. The exercise comes as the Defense Department and the services attempt to keep pace with changes in drone technology on the battlefield as seen in recently conflicts in Ukraine and Israel.

2 days ago | insidedefense.com | Vanessa Montalbano

Engine-maker GE Aerospace and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions are broadening their existing partnership to build advanced propulsion options for small, lower-cost unmanned aerial systems, according to a GE news release issued on Tuesday . Together, GE and Kratos will “develop, manufacture, test and field the GEK800 Engine, as well as collaborate on other low-cost expendable turbofan engines,” the release stated.

3 days ago | insidedefense.com | Dan Schere

ELKTON, MD -- Northrop Grumman plans to double its solid-rocket motor production from 13,000 per year, as of 2024, to 25,000 in 2029. To aid that effort, the company is building its new 57,000-square-foot Propulsion Innovation Center here, which is part of a $100 million investment to meet the Pentagon’s increasing needs for solid-rocket motor propulsion and hypersonic airbreathing propulsion. Construction on the Propulsion Innovation Center is expected to be finished in the second half of 2026.

3 days ago | insidedefense.com | Dan Schere

Virginia's congressional delegation has written to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George asking for more information about the impending merger of Army Futures Command into Training and Doctrine Command due to concerns about potential cuts at Ft. Eustis, VA where TRADOC is based.