Overview
- The Defense Department opened a competition for small, reusable one-way attack bomber drones and awarded about $32 million in initial prototype orders to jump-start development.
- The program is part of Drone Dominance, a roughly $1.1 billion effort that aims to field hundreds of thousands of attritable one-way attack drones to change how the military plans strike and munitions.
- The White House has asked Congress to include a package of defense 'anomalies' in a fiscal stopgap spending bill to prevent funding pauses from disrupting major weapons programs, shipbuilding, military health care and modernization.
- President Trump signed an executive order tightening waiver rules on sourcing certain magnets and minerals and directing rulemaking that will require contractors to map critical supply chains and seek alternatives to unreliable foreign suppliers.
- The Navy has asked South Korean shipbuilders about foreign yard capacity as it looks to speed warship construction, a move that could face pushback from Congress, and industry is pitching lower-cost options such as Lockheed’s PAC-3 ACE interceptor to meet affordability targets.