🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Friday

• The House approved $1.55B to revive the Air Force’s E-7 Wedgetail by reallocating funds from Navy and classified accounts, signaling renewed congressional backing for airborne battle management modernization.
• DARPA is offering AI factory-optimization tools to metals producers in exchange for production data to improve U.S. steel manufacturing for weapons, linking industrial base resilience directly to AI adoption.
• MBDA unveiled an AI-assisted cruise missile mission-planning tool that cuts route design time from days to minutes, compressing the targeting cycle for long-range strike operations.

Sources:

1) Defense News — https://www.defensenews.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/06/25/house-backs-155-billion-to-revive-e-7-wedgetail-spares-navy-hawkeye/
2) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/pentagon-wants-to-fix-how-america-makes-the-steel-for-its-weapons/
3) Interesting Engineering — https://interestingengineering.com/military/mbda-fasttrack-cruise-missile-route-planning

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