🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Sunday

• The U.S. Army has fielded Ukraine-inspired Mobile Fire Teams in Lithuania, signaling rapid operational adoption of counter-drone tactics to harden NATO’s eastern flank against swarm threats.
• The Marine Corps awarded Viasat a $307 million, five-year contract for multi-orbit, multi-band SATCOM services, reinforcing the shift toward commercially integrated, resilient space connectivity for global operations.
• DARPA is seeking containerized, remotely triggered drone swarms that can be pre-positioned behind enemy lines, pointing to growing U.S. investment in scalable, asymmetric autonomous strike concepts.

Sources:

1) Defence Blog — https://defence-blog.com/u-s-army-fields-ukraine-inspired-mobile-fire-teams-to-counter-drones/
2) SpaceNews — https://spacenews.com/viasat-wins-307-million-marine-corps-satellite-communications-contract/
3) The War Zone — https://www.twz.com/news-features/drone-swarms-packed-into-unassuming-containers-sought-by-darpa

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