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An L3Harris T7 Multi-Mission Robotics System inspects a suspicious bag during a peacetime improvised explosive device exercise at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, May 14, 2025. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Trenten Walters)

L3Harris lands EOD disposal robot award for the Navy and Marine Corps

A spokesperson for L3Harris declined to disclose the contract value to DefenseScoop Wednesday. The company said that T7 deliveries to the services will begin this year.

Jan 14, 2026 By Drew F. Lawrence

DISA Director and DCDC Commander Army Lt. Gen. Paul T. Stanton delivers opening remarks at DISA F2I 2025. (DISA photo by David Abizaid)

DISA looks to ramp up capability acquisition, delivery speed

Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton said that DISA must work to deliver "a fully integrated system-of-systems that solves a meaningful problem for the commander and his warfighter requirements."

Dec 8, 2025 By Mikayla Easley

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III swears in Defense Innovation Unit Director Douglas Beck in the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2023. (DoD Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

New DIU director wants to make the Pentagon’s demand signal clear for commercial companies

"We just need to make it clearer where that demand signal is and then increase the confidence that we’ll be there as the counterpart when it’s time…

May 9, 2023 By Mikayla Easley