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AeroVironment Bags $6.2M Contract From US Marine Corps

AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV) received a firm-fixed-price contract award for Puma 3 AE small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) and spares from the U.S. Marine Corps. The contract is valued at ~$6.17 million. The company expects the delivery to be completed in July 2022. Puma 3 AE unmanned aircraft system delivers immediate tactical reconnaissance, surveillance,…

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BWX Technologies Secures Contract To Build Nuclear Microreactor In US

BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT) has secured a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) to build the first advanced nuclear microreactor in the U.S. BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC will build the prototype in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Euclid, Ohio, under a cost-type contract valued at around $300 million, depending…

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Sypris Bags Follow-On Contract For Electronic Warfare System Upgrade

Sypris Solutions Inc (NASDAQ:SYPR) subsidiary, Sypris Electronics LLC, has bagged a multi-year, follow-on award from a U.S. Department Of Defense contractor to produce and test multiple power supply modules. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Sypris will produce power supply modules to upgrade the electronic warfare suite for an important U.S.…

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At least 12 military bases contaminating water supply with toxic PFAS

Testing by the Department of Defense revealed dangerous levels of the contaminants, drawing concern from public health advocates

The Guardian - US

Ameresco, Bright Canyon Energy Partner To Build Large Scale Project

Ameresco Inc (NYSE:AMRC) and Bright Canyon Energy proposed Kūpono Solar Project, a combined solar and battery system to be built at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam West Loch Annex Hawai'i. The proposed project is designed to deliver 42 megawatts (MW) of clean, renewable energy to Hawaiian Electric's grid on the island of O'ahu.…

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Soldiers 'killed 13ft monster descended from Biblical times', YouTuber claims

The Giant of Kandahar, a 13-foot-tall monster with red hair and six-fingered hands that lived in the mountains of Afghanistan 'was killed and covered up by the US government'

Daily Mirror

No, Russia did not capture a US admiral at Ukraine's Azovstal steel plant

Posts on social media claim that Russian forces captured a US admiral, Eric T. Olson, at the Azovstal steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The US Department of Defense confirmed to The FRANCE 24 Observers that Eric T. Olson retired in 2011 as an admiral for the US…

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Spire Global Secures TCOM Subcontract For Weather Forecasts

Spire Global Inc (NYSE:SPIR) has secured a subcontract agreement from TCOM, L.P. to provide weather forecasts for ten sites where TCOM aerostats are operated. The multi-million-dollar subcontract is for five years. Financial terms were not disclosed. The agreement includes comprehensive weather forecasts, alerts that notify aerostat site operators if bad weather is forecasted,…

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Austin to Gantz: US Committed to Preventing Iran’s Acquiring of Nuclear Weapons

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reiterated his country’s ironclad commitment to Israel’s security and to maintaining Israel’s qualitative military edge.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Yemeni man injured by US drone strike forced to set up GoFundMe to pay for treatment

Adel Al Manthari is at imminent risk of developing gangrene and needs emergency medical care.

The Independent UK

US to fly in baby formula on military contracted jets

US Department of Defense will also contract commercial planes to fly in supplies from overseas, the White House said.

Al Jazeera

Biden invokes Defense Production Act to address baby formula shortage

Biden also directed several government agencies to use Department of Defense commercial planes to pick up formula overseas.

Axios

How to buy SafeMoon

SafeMoon (SFM) is a cryptocurrency on the Binance Smart Chain blockchain and is headed by John Karony, a former US Department of Defense analyst.

Evening Standard

Inside Congress' bizarre UFO hearing

Two top defense officials appeared before lawmakers to testify on observations of UFOs by the U.S. military

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The Independent UK

Lawmakers frustrated with classified briefings on UFOs, report says

The latest secret briefings on UFOs come four months after Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act

Tribune News Service

Colorado officials slam report that defends locating US Space Command in Alabama

DENVER — Colorado’s top political officials reacted with frustration Wednesday to a report from the Department of Defense’s inspector general concluding that Alabama deserved to win out over Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs as home to U.S. Space Command headquarters.

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ECOR: First Quarter 2022 Financial and Operational Results

By John Vandermosten, CFA NASDAQ:ECOR READ THE FULL ECOR RESEARCH REPORT

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Ukraine receives weapons support from around the world

Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many of the world’s nations have sought to support Ukrainians by sending weapons. Even before that, though, many countries were offering limited help as a result of the Russian takeover of Crimea, in southern Ukraine, in 2014.

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Lawmakers frustrated with classified briefings on UFOs, report says

The latest secret briefings on UFOs come four months after Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act

Benzinga

Disney Communications Chief Geoff Morrell Resigns After Three Months

Geoff Morrell, the Walt Disney Co.’s (NYSE: DIS) chief corporate affairs officer who crafted the company’s public response to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, has left the company after three months on the job.

Salon

Pentagon research proposed nuking moon

But the fantastical-sounding research may have merely been an attempt by a contractor to milk government coffers

Salon

How Trump's "Big Lie" was built

Internal documents show Trumpworld conspiracy theorists knew their claims were disproven, disputed or dubious

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. military hopes to mine tech brains in the Midwest with opening of new Chicago office

The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit also has offices on both coasts and in Texas.

Chicago Sun-Times

Climate change taking a toll on U.S. military bases in the strategic Arctic, report finds

A new report from the Defense Department’s inspector general offers a rare bit of public stock-taking of the military’s state of readiness for a warming Earth.

The Independent UK

Climate toll on Arctic bases: Sunken runways, damaged roads

The Pentagon's inspector general's office says U.S. military bases in the Arctic and sub-Arctic are failing to prepare their installations for future climate change as required

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