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Lockheed Secures $1.2B Contract for Army's PrSM Missile Upgrade
Lockheed Martin has snagged a $1.2 billion contract to upgrade the Army's Precision Strike Missile system, enabling soldiers to swiftly lock onto high-priority, moving targets. The cutting-edge seeker technology will allow for precision strikes on time-sensitive threats.
#PrecisionStrikeMissile #Prsm #LockheedMartin #ArmyModernization #MissileTechnology
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Lockheed Martin Unveils Advanced Stealth Drone Design
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works unveils Vectis, a game-changing stealth drone design that combines survivability, affordability, and flexibility to meet a wide range of mission needs. With its sleek, tailless lambda-wing airframe and innovative submerged intake, Vectis is poised to revolutionize collaborative combat…
#AdvancedStealthDrone #LockheedMartin #SkunkWorks #VectisCollaborativeCombatAircraft #DroneDesign
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Lockheed Accelerates Vectis Stealth Drone Production
Lockheed Martin is ramping up production of its cutting-edge Vectis Stealth Drone, with four additional prototypes in the works to accelerate testing and validation. The move is a major step forward for the innovative aircraft, with Lockheed aiming to build and fly the new airframes at an accelerated pace.
#VectisStealthDrone #LockheedMartin #SkunkWorks #AdvancedDevelopment #StealthTechnology
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Lockheed Skunk Works Expands Combat Drone Fleet
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works is taking its combat drone fleet to the next level, expanding the Vectis experimental drone program from one prototype to a five-aircraft test fleet, with development work already underway. The ambitious project is on track to fly by the end of 2027, thanks to cutting-edge digital design and streamlined assembly.
#CombatDrone #LockheedMartin #SkunkWorks #Vectis #ExperimentalDroneProgram
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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.
#IfpcInterceptorProgram #LockheedMartin #Boeing #Anduril #Army
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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 morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/thursday-july-16-2026/
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‘Going green now for who?’ Yakama protest clean energy project on sacred site to power data center
Mounting evidence shows that a clean energy project along the Columbia River in Washington near a Yakama sacred site would in large part power a data center
by Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital Chronicle, May 28. 2026
GOLDENDALE, Wash. – "High up on the Washington side of the Columbia River near the John Day hydroelectric dam, members of the #YakamaNation gathered to protest a clean energy storage project slated to be built on a #SacredTribalSite.
'Supporters of the #Goldendale pumped-hydro energy storage project have said it will help meet growing regional energy demand, and the project developers tout its potential to one day power up to half a million homes without sending harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But mounting evidence shows a large #Datacenter campus could be among the main beneficiaries of that power.
"At the event earlier this month, Yakama leaders and a handful of nonprofits fighting the project in federal court, including Hood-River based #ColumbiaRiverkeeper, called on Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson to intervene after state and federal agencies issued key permits to the project developers, a process 10 years in the making. This was despite a state review finding that it would have 'significant and unavoidable adverse impacts' on Yakama historic sites and culturally significant plants.
"The 700-acre hydrostorage project is slated to be built on the contaminated grounds of an abandoned aluminum smelter formerly owned by #LockheedMartin, and, more broadly, a site that has long encroached on a sacred Yakama site called #Pushpum, meaning the 'Mother of all roots.'
"It’s home to #Yakama #ArchaeologicalSites and dozens of seeds, roots, flowers and shrubs harvested and protected by the tribe, some of which are endemic only to the area.
" 'I know we’re in a time when we need renewable energy, but why on our #RootGrounds? Why on critical #MigratoryCorridors for #hawks, for #SageGrouse and the deers?' asked #ElaineHarvey, a watershed manager at the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and a member of the #Yakama’s #KamíłpaBand.
" 'And I say: For who are we building? We’re going green now for data centers,' she said. 'We’re not going green for Washington and Oregon state mandates. We’re going green for data centers.' "
"The project’s owners, the Danish investment firm #CopenhagenInfrastructurePartners, have not disclosed details about who would buy the energy."
#NoDatacenters #IndigenousNews #NativeAmericanNews #WashingtonState #Oregon #SacredPlants #ProtectTheSacred #CorporateGreed #RenewablesForPeopleNotCorporations
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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, 2026WASHINGTON (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."
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-deepsea-mining-executive-orders-oceans-environment-399faab6fc32922b4c533d3bad9c1ca5Archived version:
https://archive.ph/MGqWh#USPol #DeepSeaLife #OceansAreLife
#WorldPol #NoDeepSeaMining
#RecycleMetals #TrumpSucks #DeepSeaMiningMoratorium
#OxygenSource #Extinction
#PlanetEarth #LockheedMartin
#TheMetalsCompany #DeepSeaMineralsCorp #Allseas
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Palestine expert joins think tank funded by Britain's war industry
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The only ones who truly benefit from the #WarMachine are #Corporations! And this is further proof! My uncle was in the US Army and when he was discharged, he could fix just about anything electro-mechanical! But nooooo... We can't have folks fixing stuff themselves -- just buy new ones and waste #taxpayer money!
Congress Quietly Kills Military “#RightToRepair,” Allowing #Corporations to Cash In on *Fixing* Broken Products
Both chambers included Pentagon budget provisions for a right to repair, but they died after defense industry meetings on Capitol Hill.
by Matt Sledge, December 9 2025
"The idea of a 'right to repair' — a requirement that companies facilitate consumers’ #repairs, #maintenance, and modification of products — is extremely popular, even winning broad, bipartisan support in Congress. That could not, however, save it from the #MilitaryIndustrial complex.
"#Lobbyists succeeded in killing part of the National Defense Authorization Act [#NDAA] that would have given service members the right to fix their equipment in the field without having to worry about military suppliers’ intellectual property.
"The decision to kill the popular proposal was made public Sunday after a closed-door conference of top congressional officials, including defense committee chairs, along with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
"Those meetings were secret, but consumer advocates say they have a pretty good idea of what happened.
" 'It’s pretty clear that defense contractors opposed the right-to-repair provisions, and they pressed hard to have them stripped out of the final bill,' said Isaac Bowers, the federal legislative director at #USPIRG. 'All we can say is that #DefenseContractors have a lot of influence on Capitol Hill.'
"The idea had drawn bipartisan support in both the House and Senate, which each passed their own versions of the proposal.
"Under one version, co-sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mt., defense companies would have been required to supply the information needed for repairs — such as technical data, maintenance manuals, engineering drawings, and lists of replacement parts — as a condition of Pentagon contracts.
"The idea was that no service member would ever be left waiting on a contractor to fly in from Norway to repair a simple part — which once happened — or, in another real-life scenario, told by the manufacturer to buy a new CT scanner in a combat zone because one malfunctioned.
"Instead of worrying about voiding a warranty, military personnel in the field could use a 3D printer or elbow grease to fix a part.
" 'The military is a can-do operation,' Bowers said. 'Service members can and should be able to repair their own equipment, and this will save costs if they can do it upfront and on time and on their schedule.' "
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https://theintercept.com/2025/12/09/congress-military-ndaa-right-to-repair/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/54Nro#EndlessWar #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism #USInvasions #USPol #ContractorProfiteering #LockheedMartin #Boeing #NationalDefenseAuthorizationAct
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Trump Names Saudi Arabia “Major Non-NATO Ally,” With Billions in Arms Deals
“Trump is prioritizing weapons-contractor profits and his own family’s business interests,” said Ilhan Omar. -
#Meta/#Facebook Permits Its #AI Models to Be Used for #US #Military Purposes
Meta makes its A.I. models, called Llama, available to federal agencies and that it was working with #defensecontractors such as #LockheedMartin and #BoozAllen as well as defense-focused tech companies including #Palantir and #Anduril. Llama models are “#opensource,” which means technology can be freely copied and distributed by other developers, companies and governments.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/meta-ai-military.html
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Patriot missiles will continue to see upgrades as missile threats evolve over the next several decades.#patriot-mse #pac-3-mse #patriot-air-and-missile-defense #terminal-high-altitude-area-defense #thaad #lockheed-martin #missile-defense-agency #peo-missiles-and-space #integrated-battle-command-system #ibcs #lower-tier-air-and-missile-defense-sensor #ltamds #ausa #ausa-2024 #dn-dnr #association-of-the-u-s-army #circulated-defense-news
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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing - Roughly a year ago, Latent AI, a now three-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BSM7udb1bgM/ #blackhornventures #autotechventures #venturecapital #futureventures #lockheedmartin #recentfunding #boozallen #startups #latentai #seriesa #tc