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  1. Army Picks Lockheed, Boeing-Anduril for IFPC Interceptor Program

    The Army has selected Lockheed Martin and a Boeing-Anduril team to move forward in the Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) Increment 2 interceptor prototype program, advancing to the demonstration phase. This significant step eliminates Rafael's US subsidiary from the competition, setting the stage for the next phase of development.

    osintsights.com/army-picks-loc

    #IfpcInterceptorProgram #LockheedMartin #Boeing #Anduril #Army

  2. Lockheed Martin Bolsters Australia's Air Defense with $950M Contract

    Lockheed Martin is bolstering Australia's air defense with a $950M contract to sustain and expand its joint air battle management system, strengthening the country's integrated air and missile defense system. This major deal is a significant step forward in modernizing Australia's air and missile defence capabilities.

    osintsights.com/lockheed-marti

    #Australia #AirDefenseSystem #ProjectAir6500 #LockheedMartin #MilitaryModernization

  3. F-35 costs jump in latest production lots

    WASHINGTON — The cost of all three variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are increasing by as…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AirForce #Europe #F-35 #F-35JointStrikeFighter #JointProgramOffice #LockheedMartin #marinecorps #navy #NorthropGrumman #Pentagon #PrattandWhitney #RTX #World
    newsbeep.com/719734/

  4. Wednesday, July 29, 2026

    When righteous calls to end the war become warmongering . . . . . Putin no longer holds upper hand in war . . . . . Russian fuel depot of 'national importance' struck in Udmurt Republic . . . . . Ukraine brought back almost 50 children from Russian-occupied territory in July . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  5. Thursday, July 16, 2026

    Russia hits Kyiv with ballistic missiles, killing 2, injuring 6 . . . . . Russia's Engels air base reportedly struck in Ukrainian drone attack . . . . . Ukraine expands drone campaign to Black Sea, hits 20 Russian vessels, including oil tankers . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  6. Companies join a #DeepSeaMining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits

    Trump’s order suggests the U.S. will decide for itself when to mine the global seabed, reversing the decision of previous administrations to honor the seabed authority’s rules.

    By HELEN WIEFFERING
    Updated 3:11 PM UTC, May 22, 2026

    WASHINGTON (AP) — "In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process.

    "At least nine companies are in talks with the government for access to seabed minerals, according to an Associated Press review. Sections of the seafloor from #AmericanSamoa to #Alaska could be auctioned for offshore mining this summer and through the fall.

    All the action suggests the U.S. may soon give the green light for companies to commercially mine the seabed — something that’s never been done in international waters.

    "But a close look at some of the companies involved reveals uncertain track records and histories spattered with legal disputes, while major questions about how the minerals would be processed and refined remain unanswered. Watchers of the nascent industry are skeptical the promised riches will ever materialize."

    Read more:
    apnews.com/article/trump-deeps

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/MGqWh

    #USPol #DeepSeaLife #OceansAreLife
    #WorldPol #NoDeepSeaMining
    #RecycleMetals #TrumpSucks #DeepSeaMiningMoratorium
    #OxygenSource #Extinction
    #PlanetEarth #LockheedMartin
    #TheMetalsCompany #DeepSeaMineralsCorp #Allseas
    #DeepSeaRareMinerals #BOEM #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed #NoisePollution #SedimentPlumes #RecycleNickel #RecycleCobalt

  7. #JudgementDay for the #MerchantsofDeath

    Our tribunal, seeking to hold the #WarProfiteers to account, represents the yearning of millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.

    Nick Mottern
    Jan 12, 2025

    "On January 15, 2025, five days before the inauguration of a U.S. president who threatens to rain down hell on the Palestinian people, and more war to the world, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal will release its final report on how #LockheedMartin, #Boeing, #RTX / #Raytheon and #drone-maker #GeneralAtomics have delivered hell to millions across the globe since 9/11.

    "The Tribunal’s 35 evidentiary episodes explain how these four defendant corporations have been essential enablers of the U.S. colonial campaign of murder, extortion and thievery since 9/11, epitomized in the horrific crescendo of violence that is already being rained down on the #Palestinian people. This grossly illegal war campaign—without equal in U.S. history in its geographic scope and length—is largely dependent on the products of the tribunal’s four defendant corporations.

    "The tribunal episodes explain how the U.S. campaign since 9/11 flows directly from the post-World War II decisions by U.S. Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. businessmen and their congressional allies to try to pick up the reins of colonial control around the world that were being dropped by war-ruined European nations.

    "The U.S. leaders were, of course, acting from their racist cultural and business roots, extending back deep into slavery and the #genocide against the first inhabitants of the continent, atrocities on which the U.S. was founded. They set us on the bloody path on which we find ourselves today.

    "For these industrialists and their political enablers, siding with liberation movements anywhere in the world meant less #profits for U.S. #corporations. Thus, #ColonialLiberation must be officially described as a 'communist' threat to be dealt with through direct and #ProxyKilling, #repression, #torture, and terror.

    "We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11.

    "A permanent military industry was needed to enable this mafia-style scheme of international exploitation. Tribunal video episodes describe ways in which the U.S. public has been manipulated to support this military industrial system, to their great economic, spiritual and intellectual disadvantage as the U.S. economy and the wealth of its #oligarchs, like #ElonMusk, has become more and more dependent on war and intimidation.

    "After World War I, even the Senate and Congress condemned gross war profiteering. Challenges to weapon manufacturers profiteering continued during World War II, though greatly diminished by war propaganda. Congressional support for weapons makers surged in the post-World War II years, so much so that 'defense' stocks have become sacred elements of college and university endowment funds, pension funds and private portfolios.

    "The immensity of this dependency on war stocks breached the surface of public awareness in the spring of 2024 as students in support of Palestinian life and liberation demanded that their schools disclose and divest their stock in weapons makers.

    "Students at Smith College occupied the school’s administration building for 14 days, calling on an institution that had divested from apartheid South Africa-connected stock to drop its holdings in L3 Harris and other war stock. The school’s board of trustees refused, calling the school’s holdings ”negligible”. Then in the fall, Smith administrators, and their colleagues nationwide moved, deplorably, to suppress students’ free speech.

    "Wealth-driven weapons makers who must be protected by the so-called educators, and are revered in the business world, are the successors to those weapons makers in early 20th Century war-grieving America, who were often depicted as #overconsumptive, sleezy, #MoneyGrubbing vultures, feeding on the corpses and misery of the war dead and afflicted.

    "Now, we have reached a point in which James Taiclet, the president, chair and CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the largest weapons maker in the world, whose F-35s, F-16s and Hellfire missiles have been slaughtering Palestinians wholesale, can be a valued member of the board of directors of #MassGeneralBrigham, the largest hospital system in Massachusetts, serving 2.6 million patients a year.

    "Intervening in this surging, greed-driven, incredibly lethal mess, the Tribunal rapporteurs and an international panel of 10 jurors, offer 13 recommendations for action by the public and by government officials to pull the profit out from under war and to provide reparations for the vast harm visited on millions of people by the Merchants of Death and the U.S. government since 9/11.

    "More specifically, we tribunal coordinators want to work with prosecutors around the world to bring the #CEOs of the defendant corporations to justice for having enabled, since the October 2001 invasion of #Afghanistan, #WarCrimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

    "We want to work with student and other movements to end private and public investment in weapons production.

    "We must note that in our investigation, we repeatedly called on the defendant corporations to respond, in one instance getting arrested in the process. The four defendant corporations ignored us. We repeatedly asked members of Congress to answer our questions about their involvement with weapons makers. They ignored us.

    "The work of the Tribunal was made possible by the volunteer and the extremely low paid work of more than 40 people—students, filmmakers, artists, journalists, and others who joined us at various times over nearly three years to complete our video evidentiary episodes and report.

    "Those involved represent millions of people who mean to stop the depravity of invasion, occupation, killing and repression, everywhere, so that we can properly get about the work of human survival and the restoration of our planet.

    "In this, we hope that the Tribunal recommendations will be among the guide stars that will help us chart our course, shining above the hurricane of greed and viciousness now ravaging the U.S and the world.

    "We hope that we are effective representatives of those calling for justice and repair from the hideous war work of the Merchants of Death and the United States government since 9/11, of those calling to the world from their graves, from their hospital beds, from their poverty and dislocation and their relentless battles against racism in their places of refuge.

    "Note: You may register [at the link below] for the January 15, 2025, (9 a.m. Eastern time), tribunal report release press conference. The 35 evidentiary video episodes appear on the Rumble platform and can be easily accessed at MerchantsofDeath.org, as can our Tribunal Study Guide and our podcast – Merchants of Death Radio.

    Source:
    commondreams.org/opinion/merch

    To register:
    actionnetwork.org/events/press
    #WarCriminals #EndlessWar #Genocide #NoWar

  8. Autonomous aviation startup Xwing raises $10M to scale its software for pilotless flights - Autonomous aviation startup Xwing locked in a $10 million funding round before COVID-19 hit. Now the... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #federalaviationadministration #auroraflightsciences #transportation #lockheedmartin #eniacventures #sanfrancisco #unitedstates #terrafugia #robotics #wireless #economy #bell #uber #tc