Defense News

• House backs $1.55 billion to revive E-7 Wedgetail, spares Navy Hawkeye
  The White House budget office wants to raid a Navy radar-plane account and a classified Air Force line to pull the E-7 Wedgetail back from the dead.
• Lockheed Martin wins over $35 billion contract to quadruple THAAD production
  As U.S. lawmakers worry over the munitions stockpile, Lockheed Martin announced a multiyear contract to increase THAAD production from 96 to 400 a year.
• Philippines deploys US-made Triton naval drones in its western waters to scout for intruders
  The transfer comes after the military revealed that China discreetly deployed a 6x6 meter floating platform equipped with an antenna at Scarborough Shoal.
• Europe’s defense build-up depends on getting partnerships right
  One pattern is worth watching: Partnership activity is not spreading evenly across the market; it is coalescing around a handful of industrial platforms.
• Poland buys V-BAT drones to boost Baltic Sea naval operations
  The deal puts Poland in line to become the first country on NATO’s eastern flank to acquire the Shield AI-made drone.