🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Thursday

• House appropriators advanced a $1 trillion FY27 defense bill that restores funding for the E-7 Wedgetail, signaling congressional support for modernizing airborne battle management and sensor fusion capacity.
• The Pentagon is launching a “Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay” program in October to retain high-end cyber talent, marking a policy shift toward direct compensation tools to compete with the private sector.
• The Air Force’s Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) will begin production this fall with plans to buy nearly 28,000 low-cost cruise missiles, underscoring a move toward scalable, attritable strike capacity.

Sources:

1) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/06/house-appropriators-release-1-trillion-defense-bill-for-fy27/
2) C4ISRNET — https://www.c4isrnet.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/06/10/pentagon-to-launch-cyber-mastery-incentive-pay-program/
3) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/06/10/wilsbach-famm-low-cost-cruise-missile-to-begin-production-this-fall/

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