🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Sunday

• The U.S. Army awarded Overland AI a $2M contract to deliver autonomous ground vehicles to an operational unit, signaling a transition from experimentation to fielded AI-enabled mobility systems.
• Varda Space Industries successfully completed its W-5 reentry mission using a new in-house spacecraft design, reinforcing growing commercial reentry and on-orbit manufacturing capabilities with defense relevance.
• SpaceX applied to launch up to one million satellites to support orbital data centers for AI, a move that could reshape global compute, data resilience, and space-based cloud infrastructure.

Sources:

1) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/u-s-army-picks-overland-ai-for-autonomous-ground-vehicles/
2) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/vardas-w-5-mission-lands-in-australia/
3) BBC — https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv5l24mrjmo

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