Colorado Springs – September 25, 2026 -- Aleut Federal has built a dedicated audiovisual and video teleconferencing (AV/VTC) demonstration environment in Colorado Springs, Colorado, giving government and industry customers a simulated secure setting to test next-generation collaboration and video distribution technologies.

St. Petersburg, Fla. – – September 25, 2026 -- Acron Aviation has extended its Authorized Repair Center agreement with Thales Singapore by five years, establishing in-region repair and overhaul capability for its ACSS surveillance product line across Asia-Pacific.

McLean, Va. – September 24, 2026 -- Iridium Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: IRDM) stockholders have formally approved the company's acquisition by Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), clearing a critical hurdle for a deal valued at $54.00 per share on a notional basis.

Dallas – September 24, 2026 -- BuildFreedom.US, a federal workforce campaign funded by the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) Program under the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Industrial Base Policy, is expanding into Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the next phase of a national push to fill skilled-trades gaps in America's defense manufacturing base.

Gainesville, Texas – September 24, 2026 -- More than 350 members of Teamsters Local 767 walked off the job at Safran Seats in Gainesville, Texas, launching an unfair labor practice strike after the aircraft-seat manufacturer refused to remove a mandatory overtime provision from its contract offer.

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- Prime Minute emerged from stealth with $15 million in pre-seed funding led by Eclipse, with participation from 8VC, to build what it calls the first global resilience prime for natural disaster response.

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- Lyntris Inc. (NYSE: LYNX) has completed qualification of a wedgelock assembly critical to Raytheon's SPY-6 radar family, closing a supply chain gap identified during the U.S. Navy program's shift to full-rate production.

East Hartford, Conn. – September 24, 2026 -- Pratt & Whitney has delivered its first aircraft powered by the new GTF Advantage engine to United Airlines, an Airbus A321XLR, marking the commercial debut of the upgraded engine platform.

Los Angeles – September 24, 2026 -- Outpost Technologies Corporation has launched Space Factories, a standardized orbital manufacturing platform that lets companies produce goods in microgravity and return them to Earth without building their own spacecraft, reentry system, or recovery operation.

Singapore – September 24, 2026 -- Pratt & Whitney Canada has signed a four-year maintenance, repair and overhaul agreement with AirBorneo Airways covering PW127M engines through 2030, with work centered at the RTX unit's newly expanded Singapore facility.