Poland has secured a new armored-vehicle deal worth roughly $6.7 billion, anchored by a second contract with Hyundai Rotem for 180 K2 tanks. The agreement, signed in Gliwice with Polish and South Korean officials in attendance, is valued at about $6.5 billion. Deliveries begin in 2026 and will stretch well into the 2030s, with part of the K2PL production taking place inside Poland.
The U.S. Army approved a 10-year enterprise agreement with Palantir that carries a ceiling of $10 billion and folds 75 seperate arrangements into one contract vehicle. Officials said this instrument replaces scattered, duplicative buys with a single catalog that lists products and services with clear unit prices and quantities. Orders will be placed through task orders under the umbrella agreement. The Army noted the ceiling is not a spending commitment and programs will purchase only what they fund.
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More than 3,200 machinists at Boeing’s defense plants in the St. Louis area went on strike just after midnight, early Monday, August 4. The union-IAM District 837-had voted down a new four-year contract the day before.
Türkiye has concluded two linked naval contracts with the state-owned shipbuilder ASFAT: one for a TF-2000 air-defense destroyer and another for four offshore patrol vessels. The agreements were signed at IDEF 2025 in Istanbul by ASFAT CEO Mustafa İlbaş and Admiral Ercüment Tatlıoğlu, Commander of the Turkish Naval Forces. According to defense officials, the destroyer is scheduled to launch in 2028 and enter service in 2030, while the patrol vessels will be delivered within thirty-six months of contract award. Financial terms were not dislcosed.
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Boris Pistorius and Sébastien Lecornu closed their latest meeting in Osnabrück with a single-line instruction for staff: settle the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) work-share fight by the end of December. Pistorius called the deadline “non-negotiable”. Lecornu warned that further delays would disrupt air force planning. Their comments followed weeks of tension between governments and industry that had raised doubts about Europe’s most ambitious combat-air programme.
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Lockheed Martin concluded two days of discussions in Cologne with a plan that would see Germany’s first Typhon launchers at the Meppen range by December 2026. Lockheed Martin program manager Edward Dobeck told visiting lawmakers the company’s facility in Moorestown, New Jersey, is currently producing one launcher every five weeks for the U.S. Army. Moving to a second shift would reduce that to four weeks without affecting quality checks. Lockheed is ready to shift upcoming production slots to Germany as soon as a deal is signed.
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Defense Department CIO Katie Arrington said on July 24 that the follow-on to the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability – JWCC Next – will bring in smaller cloud providers offering AI tools, satellite relays, and rugged edge services not typically available from major vendors.
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On July 24, Italy moved forward with a major defense project as L3Harris Technologies and ELT Group signed an agreement to build Europe’s first multi-sensor calibration and flight-test center. The signing took place inside a Ministry of Defense hangar in Rome. The new installation will let Italian and allied aircraft check radar, electronic warfare, and navigation systems without needing to travel to the U.S. The facility draws on L3Harris’ experience with its Greenville, Texas range and ELT’s long history in electromagnetic support.
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Turkey and the UK signed a memorandum on 23 July during the Istanbul defense fair. Defense ministers Yasar Güler and John Healey formalized plans for Turkey to buy 40 Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 4 jets, support gear, and weapons. The package is valued at around £2.8 billion. Industry sources report that draft contracts will reach both governments in August, with final signature expected in early autumn.
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