AeroVironment shares skyrocketed 21% after the dronemaker easily blew past Wall Street’s fiscal fourth-quarter estimates, benefiting from U.S. plans to modernize the military and secure space. The Virginia-based defense company more than doubled revenue from a year ago to $642 million, while funded backlog jumped 65% to $1.2 billion. Revenue for autonomous systems totaled $492…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas facility on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, as part of his “Arsenal of Freedom” industry tour. Amanda McCoy | Fort Worth Star-telegram | Tribune News Service | Getty Images Lobbying efforts to kill a proposed ban on some defense contractors buying back their own stock…
SpaceX Executives ring the Closing Bell at the Nasdaq on the debut of their IPO on June 12th, 2026. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Following the astronomical success of the SpaceX IPO — raising $85.7 billion, valuing the newly public company in the trillions, and minting Elon Musk as the world’s first trillionaire — what many…
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts and ranking member of Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, left, and Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island, speak during a confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Eric Lee | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Senate Armed Services Committee approved…
SpaceX founder Elon Musk jumps for joy at a gathering after NASA commercial crew astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken blast off aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, bound for the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 30, 2020. Jonathan Newton | The Washington Post | Getty Images In Elon Musk’s telling…
SpaceX didn’t just rewrite the playbook for aerospace and defense, it helped birth a new space economy. Now Elon Musk’s company is tackling a different type of moonshot: going public. “I wasn’t sure we would go public,” SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC in an exclusive interview, just before the company started its…
As seen from Canaveral National Seashore, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on October 6, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This is the 13th batch of satellites placed into orbit by SpaceX as part of a constellation designed to provide broadband internet service…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on June 10, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images As hostilities in the Middle East flare up again, investors are increasingly grappling with the possibility of a prolonged conflict and pricing in a “long grind.” The…
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE – MAY 29: Police officers stand on patrol during the 23rd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue at the Shangri-La Hotel on May 29, 2026 in Singapore. Senior defence officials and military leaders from across the Asia-Pacific and beyond convene at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue,…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth takes questions during a press briefing at the Pentagon on May 5, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The U.S. aims to sustain equilibrium in the Asia-Pacific region and is working toward a situation where its allies are more capable, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said,…
