Washington – October 06, 2026 -- Strider Technologies has secured a contract worth up to $85 million from the Department of the Air Force, formalizing a five-year collaboration with the service's Office of Commercial and Economic Analysis (OCEA) to screen for nation-state risk in defense innovation programs.

Tulsa, Okla. – October 06, 2026 -- Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, has appointed veteran federal contracting executive Terri Malone as Chief Growth Officer, effective Oct. 12.

Washington – October 06, 2026 -- NASA has been named recipient of the 2026 Inspiration Award by the Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation (IPOEF), recognizing the agency's use of intellectual property to drive space innovation and commercialization.

Scarborough, Maine – October 06, 2026 -- ConductorAI has secured an award through the Department of War's Accelerate the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies (APFIT) program to support the Defense Intelligence Agency, marking DIA's first APFIT award and one of the program's first pure software selections.

Cincinnati – October 06, 2026 -- Pratt & Whitney has awarded Belcan, a Cognizant company, its Premier Award for 2025, marking the supplier's fourth such recognition in five years.

Hoboken, N.J. – October 06, 2026 -- Rocket One Inc. (Nasdaq: RKTO) has signed a 12-month Evaluation Patent License Agreement with the Department of the Air Force covering U.S. Patent No. 10,239,637 B2, a system designed to physically capture hostile drones and sever their communications links.

Huntsville, Ala. – October 05, 2026 -- Boeing has been awarded an undefinitized contract action worth approximately $14.7 billion by Lockheed Martin to scale production and deliver PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) seekers.

Berthoud, Colo. – October 05, 2026 -- The U.S. Navy has awarded Ursa Major two contracts totaling $137 million to develop and qualify tactical solid rocket motors for the Compact Air-to-Air Missile (CAAM) and Naval Modular Missile (NMM) programs. The awards, funded through the Office of the Under Secretary of War, break down to $91 million for the CAAM motor and $46 million for the NMM Quad-Pack Medium-Range motor.

Sanford, Fla. – October 05, 2026 -- Hoverfly Technologies confirmed its Spectre tethered UAS (TeUAS) was the drone pictured in widely circulated coverage of recent U.S. Army Maneuver Battle Lab (MBL) field trials at Fort Benning, Georgia, where the service tested line-of-sight communications and surveillance drones mounted on Infantry Squad Vehicle-Utility (ISV-U) platforms.

Boston – October 05, 2026 -- Pryzm, the CRM built for government contracting, has rebranded as Belisar following 6X annual recurring revenue growth and adoption by a third of the more than 60 defense tech unicorns currently operating.