Emily Ryan Miller

Emily Ryan Miller is responsible for covering defense tenders, company statements, and weapons market analytics. As an Editorial Fellow, she brings clarity to complex industrial developments and ensures our readers receive timely updates on key business and procurement trends.

Someone in NATO bought Ukraine more artillery shells

A fellow NATO member state has placed a new order for thousands of German-made artillery shells that will end up in Ukrainian hands, German defense manufacturer Rheinmetall announced today, the latest sign that European allies are still...

Lockheed and Rheinmetall team up to build ATACMS missiles in Germany

Lockheed Martin and German defense giant Rheinmetall signed a memorandum of understanding at the NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum in Ankara, Türkiye, to establish co-production of the ATACMS missile system in Europe. The agreement, backed by both...

Five NATO nations plan a Patriot missile repair hub inside Europe

The United States, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden signed a joint government-to-government agreement at the NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum in Ankara, Türkiye, on July 7 to explore building a dedicated PAC-3 missile maintenance facility somewhere...

Pentagon locks in critical transformer steel supply

The Pentagon has locked in its only domestic source of a specialized steel that keeps America's power grid, its military bases, and its warships running, awarding a $400 million contract to a company that happens to be...

U.S. Army pays Lockheed $347M to prototype next-gen missile defense

Lockheed Martin's Missile and Fire Control division, based in Grand Prairie, Texas, won a new contract worth $ 347.5 million for the development, fabrication, and testing of improvements to prototype air and missile defense systems, according to...

Switchblade drone maker wins huge Army counter-drone contract

The U.S. Army just handed one drone maker a $500 million bet that cheap enemy drones are about to become the biggest threat American soldiers face on the battlefield. AeroVironment (AV), the defense company best known for building...

AeroVironment revenue nears $2 billion on acquisition boom

AeroVironment (AV) posted fourth-quarter revenue growth of 133 percent, pulling in $641.6 million and pushing full fiscal year revenue to nearly $2 billion, a jump the drone maker says was driven by soaring demand for attack drones,...

U.S. Marine Corps buys robot vehicles to hunt drones

The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia awarded Seattle-based Overland AI a $20 million contract to supply unmanned ground vehicles and accompanying software in direct support of the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, the Corps'...