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Poland’s Miecznik-class frigates. Credit: PGZ Stocznia Wojenna. PGZ Stocznia Wojenna, Poland’s state-owned naval shipyard, has selected L3Harris Technologies’ Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) for the Polish Navy’s new Miecznik-class frigates. The selection falls under the Miecznik programme being delivered by the PGZ‑Miecznik consortium under a contract signed in July 2021. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more L3Harris said its IPMS will manage shipboard systems and improve operational awareness, efficiency and safety. The company has supplied IPMS solutions to the navies of the UK,…

Maryland lawmakers pushed the Air Force for more transparency after a 32,000-gallon jet fuel leak on Joint Base Andrews contaminated nearby soil and water. All but one of Maryland’s senators and representatives asked for more information about the extent of the damage caused by the leak and the measures taken to mitigate the contamination in a Tuesday letter to Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink.“It is of the utmost importance that Joint Base Andrews fully assess and remediate any damage caused by this leak and take protective measures to prevent an incident like this from happening again in the…

HAVELSAN will present its next-generation solutions in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, command and control, combat management, simulation, training, and cybersecurity.HAVELSAN will take part in SAHA EXPO 2026, one of the key platforms showcasing Türkiye’s capabilities in defense, aviation, space, and advanced technologies.At the exhibition, HAVELSAN will present its field-oriented technology approach and demonstrate how integrated solutions create operational value across land, sea, air, and joint mission environments.This year, HAVELSAN will highlight two important capabilities for the first time at SAHA EXPO: ADVENT-AI and BARKAN 3. ADVENT-AI: AI-Supported Decision Superiority for Naval OperationsADVENT-AI is one of the key outcomes of HAVELSAN’s long-term…

Pentagon leaders say workers are using new agentic AI tools to compress weeks of work into hours. But the same tools are opening new frontiers of digital crime and changing the very nature of cybersecurity.The rollout of agentic tools on the department’s GenAI.mil platform since December has been a “tremendous success,” Emil Michael, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday. Michael said people were using the tools to do “the mundane part of their job” and take a “two-week task and compress it down to three hours.”The platform recently added Google’s Gemini and is looking…

A car accident delayed it. A war of words followed. Now, six months later than originally planned, Oumar “Reug Reug” Kane finally gets to prove he is the real deal. Kane puts the ONE Heavyweight MMA World Title on the line for the first time against former three-division ONE MMA World Champion Anatoly “Sladkiy” Malykhin in the main event of The Inner Circle, streaming live for members at live.onefc.com from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday, May 15. The 33-year-old Senegalese champion holds a 7-1 MMA record and five consecutive wins heading into this rematch. The pair first met…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Canadian Pacific Kansas City and CSX launched an “improved” Southeast Mexico service this week, connecting Mexico, Texas and the U.S. Southeast, according to a press release. Service upgrades to the SMX line help reduce transit times by about 20% to 45%, including one-day-faster service between Atlanta and Dallas and approximately two-and-a-half days faster transport between Atlanta and central Mexico, per the release. New origins and destinations for the SMX service also include Charlotte, Jacksonville and Central Florida. The railroads made…

Contracts AIR FORCE Anduril Industries Inc., Costa Mesa, California, has been awarded a $100,300,000 modification (P00008) to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract (FA8820-24-D-B001) for deployment, upgrades, and continuous development of reliable, secure, redundant, and resilient mesh networking capabilities for existing and future Space Domain Awareness and Space Surveillance Network sensors. The modification brings the total maximum ceiling value of the contract to $200,000,000 from $99,700,000. Work will be performed at Colorado Springs, Colorado; Costa Mesa, California; and various SDANet Nodes site locations, and is expected to be completed by Sept. 23, 2027. No funds are being obligated at time…

The Philippines has been revealed as a potential operator of the Bell 505 helicopter for training purposes. (Gordon Arthur)On 5 May, the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency (DSCA) issued a notification that the US government had approved the potential Foreign Military Sale of Bell 505 helicopters to the Philippines.The quantity listed was 22 Bell 505s, with a maximum sale price of US$150 million.For this monetary figure, the package would include spare main and tail rotor blades, an integrated logistics support for a period of five years, and training for 22 pilots, 22 maintainers for its Safran engine, and six maintenance…

The F-35 Joint Program Office is preparing to modify the fighter’s In-Line File Encryption Device software to support government-mandated quantum-resistant algorithms, according to a presolicitation notice published on May 6, 2026. The notice, issued through Naval Air Systems Command, signals that the F-35 program is beginning the process of hardening one of the aircraft’s core […]

STM has unveiled its next-generation Kamikaze Unmanned Surface Vehicle, the STM YAKTU KUSV, at SAHA 2026. Designed to redefine naval warfare with high-speed performance, a low-profile silhouette, and swarm operational capabilities, the KUSV marks a significant leap in maritime defense technology. STM press release STM Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik ve Ticaret A.Ş., a leading Turkish defence engineering company, has unveiled its next-generation Kamikaze Unmanned Surface Vehicle (KUSV), marking a new era in maritime defence by combining its extensive experience in naval platforms with its advanced expertise in autonomous systems. By integrating decades of expertise in naval platform development with advanced autonomous…