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.

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...

Latvia signs multi-year deal for autonomous drone killers

Latvia has signed a multi-year framework agreement with Origin Robotics to secure a continuous supply of BLAZE autonomous interceptor drones, and structured the deal so other European nations can plug directly into it without running their own...

Crane Aerospace brakes help Northrop’s combat drone pass key test

Northrop Grumman's YFQ-48A Talon Blue autonomous combat aircraft completed its first taxi test on May 14 at Mojave, California, moving under its own power for the first time and bringing the Air Force's third designated drone wingman...

GE Aerospace wins deal to design engine for U.S. Air Force autonomous aircraft

GE Aerospace has secured a U.S. Air Force contract to advance the preliminary design of its GE426 engine, a propulsion system built specifically for the medium-thrust class of autonomous combat aircraft the Air Force is developing to...

U.S. Air Force special ops MQ-9 drones now cleared to use GBU-39B glide bomb

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command's MQ-9 Reaper fleet at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, declared operational with the GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb this spring, giving the 27th Special Operations Wing's drone crews a weapon that...