A NAVAIR notice says the Navy intends to negotiate a sole-source order with Lockheed Martin to integrate the AGM-158C LRASM anti-ship missile on the B-52. No schedule or missile count is given, and other vendors can respond until Oct. 22.
NVIDIA, AMD, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and six others pledged $2.4 billion in compute credits and science tools for the Genesis Mission, the White House says. The commitments are credits, not cash, and the fact sheet gives no delivery timeline.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said at the White House science summit that the first Moon Base element will launch in December, followed by near-monthly robotic missions from early 2027, Payload reports. NASA’s May plan gave broader windows.
Boeing says Lockheed Martin awarded it an undefinitized seven-year contract action worth about $14.7 billion to triple PAC-3 MSE seeker production in Huntsville. Terms are still being finalized, and executives warn Congress has not yet appropriated money for the interceptor framework deals.
The AUKUS Pillar II demonstration Maritime Big Play Pacific runs Oct. 5 to 25 with live-fire vignettes in strike, contested resupply and undersea warfare. The Navy says the goal is to fold uncrewed systems from three nations into common command and control.
The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin are discussing an F-35 agreement of up to 10 years that would cover production and spare parts, Breaking Defense reports. Nothing is signed, a source inside the talks is skeptical, and Congress has not authorized a multi-year sustainment deal.
The Navy says crews building Dry Dock 5 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, the first dry dock designed for Virginia-class submarines, are preparing to pump out the harbor cofferdam so the permanent walls can rise. The workforce is set to grow from about 350 to more than 1,000.
Bay Area startup Atomic Machines says its Matter Compiler builds working micro-machines from code. Its first product, a relay the company says opens in 50 microseconds, targets 800-volt power in AI data centers. Customers are unnamed and no valuation was given.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 13 for the 35th SpaceX resupply mission. Dragon carries the last pair of IROSA solar arrays, which NASA says complete the station’s power upgrade for critical operations including its controlled deorbit.
A Federal Register notice says converting existing Minuteman III launch facilities for Sentinel is no longer achievable on cost and schedule. The Air Force will study new-built silos, land acquisition and new fiber corridors in a supplemental environmental impact statement.