8 August 2026

The government awards Raytheon a contract to manufacture and assemble Standard Missile-3 Block IIA All-Up Rounds for U.S. and Japanese defense needs. The Army modifies a Raytheon award to produce full-rate TOW Weapon System units and provide engineering services. DARPA seeks proposals to develop a universal, software-defined platform for precise, programmable editing of endogenous proteins. The Air Force issues an RFI for rapid, on-demand manufacturing and employment of Expeditionary Unmanned Aerial Systems in austere environments. HHS requests proposals to purchase a Human Kinase LentiArray CRISPR library for biomedical research and the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine seeks an automated liquid handling robot for long-read sequencing preparation. The Navy awards Northrop Grumman a contract modification for Joint Counter Radio-Controlled IED EW systems and Lockheed Martin a contract to produce lightweight low-cost conformal antenna arrays for shipboard use.