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Mérignac (France), 25 August 2026 – Exosens (EXENS; FR001400Q9V2), a high-tech company focused on providing mission- and performance-critical amplification, detection and imaging technologies, today announces that its U.S. subsidiary, Photonis Defense, has been awarded a first delivery order for 1,600 complete systems under the U.S. Army’s Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD) program, as part of the broader Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract announced in March 2026. This represents an important step in the BiNOD program, initiating the Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) phase after key testing and the qualification phase. First product deliveries are expected by the end of 2026, with the bulk…

As Europe faces a rapidly evolving security landscape, closer Nordic cooperation in defence and security is essential. Now, five of Europe’s most prominent defence and technology companies, Ericsson, Kongsberg, Nokia, Patria and Saab, have joined the Defence Track within Nordic Compass, a pan-regional Round Table for industry. Here, they will work as founding drivers of the track. At a time when Europe must take greater responsibility for its own defence, this signals a willingness from Nordic industry to contribute even more to Europe’s defence needs. Jyri Häkämies, chair of the Nordic Compass Defence Track and former Defence Minister of Finland,…

A new space-transportation policy released by the Trump administration Thursday aims to build the infrastructure needed to rapidly increase U.S.-led rocket launches in coming years, including links to the nation’s modernizing air traffic control systems. President Donald Trump’s strategy sets a goal of supporting “more than 1,000 launches and reentries” by 2030, largely through working with commercial companies to build sites across the country. This will require the Pentagon and NASA to work together to “operate Federal launch and reentry ranges and facilities in a transparent manner that accommodates government and non government users,” Trump’s memo said. Other relevant agencies will also need to be involved in these discussions,…

DOJ calls Kennedy Center “a financially insolvent facility, housed in a decrepit, dilapidated, crumbling building.” JESSE BEDAYN August 25, 2026 8:40 pm 3 min read Justice Department attorneys argued that if President Donald Trump’s name does not appear somewhere on the Kennedy Center, then the money from donors for renovations would shrivel up and the “decrepit, dilapidated” cultural center may be “required to be taken down.” That came from a court filing late Monday on the long-running saga over whether the president’s name can be added to the cultural institution and venue meant to honor John F. Kennedy after his…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney dominated headlines with his 2025 Davos address. Declaring the end of the rules-based international order and the emergence of “intensifying great power competition”, Carney’s assessment reflects the visible erosion of multilateral institutions such as an absent World Trade Organization (WTO), a paralyzed United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and the rise of powerful states leveraging hard power dependencies to expand their influence and wealth. The Kremlin continues its invasion of Ukraine while expanding its hybrid war against Kyiv’s supporters; Beijing uses its newfound naval power and near-monopoly on rare-earth supply chains to coerce states across the…

Britain’s most advanced attack submarine was not born from a smooth success story. The Astute-class submarine emerged from one of the Royal Navy’s most troubled major procurement programmes, marked by delays, rising costs and a painful loss of industrial experience.The first boat, HMS Astute, was originally expected to enter service in 2005. Instead, it was commissioned in 2010. Earlier National Audit Office assessments identified a 41-month delay and £1.22 billion in cost overruns at one stage of the programme.But the more revealing problem sat underneath those numbers.Britain had experienced a lengthy gap in submarine production after the Vanguard programme, and…

RAND researchers propose Security Level 3 (SL3), a standardized framework of 262 security controls adapted from National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-53 to protect artificial intelligence model weights against organized cybercrime and insider threats. The controls address 31 high-feasibility attack vectors and are designed for feasible, incremental implementation within six to 12 months. This publication is part of the RAND research report series. Research reports present research findings and objective analysis that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors. All RAND research reports undergo rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and…

VIENNA — The first-ever road bridge linking North Korea and Russia across the Tumen River appears close to completion, according to satellite imagery reviewed by Defense News, though construction on the Russian side lags behind Pyongyang’s finished part. It is a visible manifestation of the two countries’ tightening relationships, driven by Pyongyang’s military support for Russia in its war against Ukraine. Half-meter resolution Planet imagery captured in recent weeks shows the North Korean approach to the bridge fully built, including a customs building and a controlled entry point several hundred meters from the riverbank. Work on the Russian side, by…

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. — Tomorrow’s battlefield is expected to pair automated vehicles and artificial intelligence with human Soldiers, and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center helping explore what that future might look like through controlled experimentation with industry partners. Via a cooperative research and development agreement with HDT Robotics, LLC, doing business as BLADE, the Armaments Center supported the successful delivery of an armed Hunter WOLF unmanned ground vehicle to the 3rd Mobile Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division for a technical demonstration. The Autonomous Weapons Architectures & Controls Branch Chief Andrew Wilson noted that this highlights…

Ukrainians marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of the country’s independence this week, but Ukraine’s historic fight for freedom is still far from over. This was the fifth Ukrainian Independence Day since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The outcome of the invasion remains very much in doubt and will determine whether Ukraine finally emerges as a truly independent state or is forced back into the confines of a resurgent Russian Empire. Ukraine’s statehood struggle dates back hundreds of years and is one of the oldest in European history. As long ago as the early eighteenth century, French writer Voltaire observed that…