Col. Scott Carpenter says Army Materiel Support Command, Korea, wants to be INDOPACOM’s advanced manufacturing center, citing a $1.27 bolt and an $82 assembly.

ORNL says Motor Decide, which it calls a Super Intelligence (SI)-driven platform, models copper and rare earth scenarios to rank motor technologies before design.

Griffin-1 passed mass properties, EMI, acoustic, vibration and thermal vacuum tests at JPL. Voyager says acceptance testing is complete ahead of a late-2026 launch.

AEVEX displayed Specter, a modular jet-powered one-way attack drone built with Divergent. It has no contract yet, and first flight is planned for December 2026.

At AUSA, Army officials said the first Enduring-High Energy Laser could finish testing and reach soldiers by early 2028, under a $464.8 million AeroVironment award.

Qcells is field-testing full-size perovskite tandem panels and plans a gigawatt-scale factory in 2029, its CTO told Canary Media. Its Georgia plant was designed to upgrade.

IonQ agreed to acquire Zero Trust firm Elisity in an all-stock deal valued at up to $1.3 billion. The deal has not closed; IonQ expects closing in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Dallas venture firm Balerion Space Ventures says Fund II is oversubscribed at $200 million and has backed 15 companies, from Vast and Relativity Space to fusion developers.

Sig Sauer and IAI say their Fire Storm 250 quadcopter, carrying the Army’s new M250 machine gun, identified and engaged targets in a live-fire test. No U.S. contract was announced.

At AUSA, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment commander described Project Flytrap concepts: cheap drones to bait enemy radars and ground robots with decoy emitters to fake a breach.