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• Another 340 firms approved to bid on Golden Dome work worth up to $151B

  16-01-2026 02:28 via defenseone.com
  Another 340 companies and schools have been added to the Golden Dome missile defense contract vehicle, leaving only a small handful of the original 2,400-plus applicants out of the running for a pool of work worth up to $151 billion.On Thursday, the Missile Defense Agency announced the third list of organizations deemed eligible to bid on the multiple-award indefinite-delivery/quantity contract, known as the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD. Several U.S. schools
  
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• The Pentagon leans into drone swarms with a $100M challenge

  16-01-2026 02:12 via defenseone.com
  The U.S. military wants to make it easy for troops to direct swarms of drones—on land, at sea, or in the air—and is offering vendors up to $100 million to do so.On Tuesday, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit announced the Orchestrator Prize Challenge, the latest sign that the military is looking beyond simply buying warbots in bulk toward the larger challenge of giving commanders a way to command groups of different drones from different makers.“We want orchestrator t
  
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• Ukraine’s future may turn on upcoming votes in Congress

  16-01-2026 01:46 via defenseone.com
  More than 30 countries recently announced security guarantees that would take effect following a cease-fire between Ukraine and Russia, vowing to continue providing “critical long-term military assistance” to Ukraine’s armed forces, which they declared to be Europe’s “first line of defense and deterrence.” The role of the United States in that effort will soon be decided by Congress, which is debating its contributions as emergency assistance shifts to sustain
  
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