Experience

Defense Events Defense industry events, conferences, expos, and summits — schedules, intelligence briefs, and attendance signals. Tidbits Quick notes, observations, and useful advice. Arctic Arctic defense opportunities — High North, NORAD modernization, Arctic C2/communications, ISR, Coast Guard, maritime domain awareness, cold weather systems, and Arctic infrastructure. Maritime Maritime security, undersea warfare, UUV/UAS naval operations, AUKUS, seabed infrastructure protection, and naval defense industrial base topics. Defense Startups Emerging defense companies, stealth launches, seed and Series A rounds, and new entrants to the defense industrial base.

Topic	Views	Activity
About the Experience category Experience	1	June 1, 2026
Honolulu Defense Forum 2027 sets test for Indo-Pacific coalition performance Defense Events indo-pacific , interoperability , pacific-islands , security-cooperation , deterrence	14	September 4, 2026
Singularity Defense Emerges With $80 Million to Build Lower-Cost Interceptors Defense Startups	9	July 17, 2026
Army Awards $500 Million Contract to Drone Startup Neros for Mass Production of FPV Systems Defense Startups	8	July 15, 2026
Skygauge Robotics Verifies Drone Operations Above 3,000 Meters in Chile Defense Startups	2	July 15, 2026
USS Scorpion (SSN-589): Fact Pattern — The Unsolved 1968 Disappearance Maritime maritime , navy , uss-scorpion , cold-war , submarine	3	June 26, 2026
Rudolf Steiner's Architectural Legacy: Designing Through Spiritual Principles in Dornach Tidbits	5	June 18, 2026
IQT Highlights Sofar Ocean's Maritime Sensor Network for National Security Applications Maritime	6	June 18, 2026
Fabri: MIT Spinout Discloses $13.5M in Cumulative Funding for Automated Investment Casting Defense Startups	15	June 15, 2026
Integration of Unmanned Surface Vessels in U.S. 4th Fleet Counter-Narcotics Operations Maritime maritime , usv , uscg , unmanned-systems	3	June 13, 2026
PLAN at a Tipping Point: China's Far-Seas Navy and the Logic of Global Presence Maritime china	11	June 13, 2026
Ultra Maritime Announces MSARS First In-Water Deployment in UK, Advances Autonomous ASW Integration with General Atomics MQ-9B Maritime autonomy , maritime , navy , asw , sonobuoy , uk-defence , ultra-maritime	4	June 12, 2026
PAE Fires Low-Cost Interceptor Industry Day — June 23, 2026 (Crystal City) Defense Events army , acquisition , industry-day , air-missile-defense , low-cost-interceptor , pae-fires	5	June 12, 2026
SOLIC First Quarterly Industry Day — July 24, 2026 (ASW Anderson, Capability Development Innovation Directorate) Defense Events sof , irregular-warfare , socom , interoperability , industry-day , solic , derrick-anderson , iwtsd , soarc , july-2026	52	June 9, 2026
SIGNAL — IQT (In-Q-Tel) Highlights Sofar Ocean for Maritime Domain Awareness and National Security (World Ocean Month 2026) Maritime navy , mda , iqt , in-q-tel , sofar-ocean , maritime-domain-awareness , ocean-intelligence , spotter-buoy , noaa , world-ocean-month	16	June 9, 2026
Odd-Harald Hagen (Space Norway) on SAR Satellite Constellations as Near-Real-Time Situational Awareness Infrastructure Maritime arctic , maritime , nato , dark-vessels , sar , iceye , space-norway , mda , isr , situational-awareness	2	June 8, 2026
EVENT: AFCEA 2026 Army Intelligence Industry Day (June 30, 2026) Defense Events events , army , intelligence , aise , inscom , afcea , industry-day	14	June 8, 2026
OpenOceanWatch: Satellite, AI, and Open Databases Applied to AIS-Dark Vessel Detection Maritime maritime , osint , pai , dark-vessels , ghost-ships , ais , shadow-fleet , satellite-imagery , openoceanwatch	2	June 8, 2026
COL Jon Holm on the Skill/Will Matrix — A Practitioner's Read on Team Dynamics Tidbits people , leadership , org-psychology , iopsych , skill-will-matrix , team-dynamics , military-leadership	4	June 7, 2026
FarSounder Demonstrates Multi-Layer Sensor Fusion for USV Navigation at Combined Naval Event 2026 Maritime autonomy , maritime , navy , usv , sensor-fusion , farsounder , sea-ai , tocaro-blue , cne2026	1	June 7, 2026
HOT OPP: Navy Selects 7 Companies for MUSV Marketplace At-Sea Testing — $15M Per Completion + Follow-On Production Maritime autonomy , maritime , hot-opp , navy , musv , usv , ras , saronic , hii	6	June 6, 2026
HOT OPP: DARPA Deep Thoughts Program (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) Maritime darpa , autonomy , maritime , hot-opp , auv	4	June 5, 2026
Event Recap: 2026 Arctic-Pacific Security Dialogue (APSD) — TSC Executive Summary Released Defense Events arctic , maritime , aukus , indo-pacific , tsc	4	June 5, 2026
Profile: MG John P. Cogbill — Commanding General, 11th Airborne Division (Arctic Angels) Experience arctic , army , 11th-airborne , people , biography	11	June 5, 2026
Signal: MG Cogbill / 11th Airborne Division — 'Down from Heaven, Arctic Tough' (Arctic Angels Operational Posture, June 2026) Arctic arctic , army , 11th-airborne , airborne , alaska	6	June 5, 2026
Signal: AUKUS Pillar II — First Signature Project: Trilateral UUV Payloads and Enabling Systems, Delivery Begins 2027 Maritime maritime , aukus , uuv , undersea-warfare , indo-pacific	4	June 4, 2026
Signal: "We Need an Army of Storytellers" — Cari Guittard on Narrative Warfare and the Competition of Ideas (Ajit Maan, Ph.D.) Tidbits cognitive-warfare , io , narrative-warfare , information-environment , psyop	4	June 4, 2026
Signal: Matthew Bernard (Naval Aviator / HBS / Industrial Base Alpha) Joins The Merge as Defense Writer Defense Startups defense-startups , defense-media , the-merge , industrial-base	8	June 4, 2026
Signal: Ted Stevens Center — Ukraine Drone Warfare Lessons for the Arctic (June 17 Event, Nolan Peterson / IWC) Arctic navwar , arctic , uas , ukraine , irregular-warfare	2	June 4, 2026
Opportunity: DARPA ExPEDitions (DARPA-PS-26-118) — Next-Gen Expeditionary Battery Technology, Abstracts Due June 15 Tidbits hard-tech , darpa , energy	4	June 4, 2026