🔎 Defense Tech Signal — Tuesday

• The Pentagon is requesting more than $20B for its Strategic Capital loan program in FY27, a major expansion aimed at accelerating private-sector investment into critical defense technologies and supply chains.
• The Air Force is seeking nearly $1B in FY27 to begin procurement of Collaborative Combat Aircraft, marking the formal transition of CCA from prototyping into acquisition.
• The Army’s Scarlet Dragon exercise integrated commercial data directly into battlefield networks, demonstrating operational progress toward fusing non-organic data sources into targeting and kill chains.

Sources:

1) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/04/06/pentagon-office-strategic-capital-loan-program-budget-increase/
2) DefenseScoop — https://defensescoop.com/2026/04/06/air-force-wants-to-procure-first-cca-drones-in-2027/
3) Breaking Defense — https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/armys-scarlet-dragon-exercise-adds-commercial-data-to-battlefield-data-flows/

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