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.

X-Bow’s containerized propellant plant clears key milestone

A Texas-based startup has reached a milestone in its effort to fundamentally change how the United States manufactures rocket fuel, completing end-to-end propellant operations for two manufacturing systems at its facility in partnership with the Air Force...

Israeli defense giant bets on robot vehicles

Elbit Systems has folded another autonomy company into its defense portfolio, acquiring Israel’s Blue White Robotics through its FUSE unit in a deal aimed at turning ordinary off-road vehicles into self-driving military and security machines. The Haifa-based defense...

Britain’s upgraded Challenger 3 tank passes key trial stage

Britain's most powerful tank is getting closer to frontline service, with Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land confirming that Challenger 3 development trials are advancing through a series of battlefield mission serials that are testing the upgraded vehicle under...

U.S. Army tests AI-guided drone killer at Fort Hood

At Fort Hood, Texas, in late March, engineers and soldiers ran live fire at drones and watched a retrofitted U.S. Army weapon station kill them in under three seconds. The exercise, called Operation Condor Rebirth, brought together...

UK Army to test modular RHINO ground robot

A British robotics startup secured a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence to supply its RHINO uncrewed ground vehicle for frontline Army experimentation, marking the first time the MOD has fast-tracked a domestic robotic platform into...

Lockheed breaks ground on THAAD plant in Alabama

Lockheed Martin broke ground Wednesday on a new production facility in Troy, Alabama, adding 87,000 square feet of manufacturing space dedicated to Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors and laying infrastructure for future Next Generation Interceptor work. The...

GE Aerospace wins T700 engine support deal for UK Apaches

GE Aerospace secured a three-year engine support contract from Boeing Defence UK to maintain the T700-GE-T701D turboshaft engines powering the British Army's fleet of AH-64E Apache attack helicopters. The contract places a GE Aerospace field service representative permanently...

Brazil gets domestically produced MAX anti-tank missiles

SIATT delivered the first production batch of MAX 1.2 AC anti-tank guided missiles to the Brazilian Army in Formosa, Goiás, on May 14, 2026, closing a development cycle that began decades ago and turning a domestically designed...