Contracts & Deals

The Pentagon has finalized a $12.5 billion contract action to complete Lot 18 of the F-35 and to fund production and delivery of Lot 19, bringing the combined value of the two lots to about $24.3 billion when paired with the earlier

The Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin closed a $24.3 billion agreement for 296 F-35s covering production Lots 18 and 19. The package locks in 148 aircraft per lot and ends a two-year negotiation cycle that started after an undefinitized award used

The U.S. Army awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to Acquisition Logistics LLC to build and operate a large immigration detention complex on Fort Bliss near El Paso. The company is a small Virginia-based business with no publicly documented experience

The Navy awarded Pratt & Whitney a not-to-exceed $2.88 billion modification to produce 141 F135 propulsion systems for F-35 Lot 18. The award covers engines for the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy, along with partner nations and foreign military sales customers.

Sweden and Thailand have signed a government-to-government contract for four Saab Gripen E/F fighters worth about SEK 5.3 billion (roughly $550-560 millions). The package covers three single-seat Gripen E and one twin seat Gripen F, with equipment, support, and training included. Deliveries

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.

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

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

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

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