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Breaking Defense: Aeon reports $13.8 million SOCOM deal for shoulder-fired Zeus

Aeon told Breaking Defense it plans to deliver fewer than 100 developmental Zeus weapons over the next year, after investing its own capital to build the weapon.

Aeon Industrial told Breaking Defense it will deliver fewer than 100 developmental shoulder-fired Zeus weapons to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) under a $13.8 million low-rate initial production deal. Deliveries are planned over the next year, the outlet reported Nov. 3.1

Breaking Defense: Aeon plans limited Zeus deliveries to SOCOM

Developmental shoulder-fired Zeus for U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM)

$13.8MLow-rate initial production deal reported by Aeon
Fewer than 100Weapons Aeon plans to deliver over the next year

Aeon says the program is focused on qualifying and delivering a production-capable system.

Reported by Breaking Defense, Nov. 3, 2026

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Aeon CEO Naweed Tahmas told the outlet the company invested its own capital to build the weapon. Aeon is pitching Zeus as a possible lower-cost alternative to legacy guided systems.1

The company describes the system as weighing about 20 pounds, with a 30-inch-long weapon designed to be fired primarily in confined and urban environments. SOCOM did not respond to the outlet's questions about order numbers, test plans or other companies under similar contracts.1

Tahmas said the Army and other Department of War partners had conducted extensive development and live-fire testing with Zeus. He also said Aeon had received additional contracts to integrate the weapon onto unmanned surface vessels and for counter-drone applications.1

Qualification remains part of the work: Tahmas told Breaking Defense the program is focused on qualifying and delivering a production-capable system that meets special operations requirements. He said testing and operator evaluations would validate performance in operationally representative environments.1

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  1. Breaking Defense: SOCOM taps Aeon for limited run of shoulder-fired Zeus with $13.8M deal breakingdefense.com
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Contracts · Cyber infrastructure

DISA seeks cloud identity and access prototype for Department of War

Responses are due Nov. 30 for a commercial identity-management prototype. It would operate across IL5 and IL6 environments.

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is seeking a commercial, cloud-hosted identity and access management prototype to modernize the Department of War’s legacy identity infrastructure.1

DISA seeks solutions to prototype a Next Generation E-ICAM capability

Enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (E-ICAM)

modernize legacy identity infrastructuremodular, cloud-hostedplanned

This effort will modernize legacy identity infrastructure with a modular, cloud-hosted commercial off-the-shelf/software-as-a-service solution operating across IL5 and IL6 environments.

The prototype must address the Federated Identity Provider, Automated Account Provisioning, Master Entitlement Record, and Federation Hub core capabilities.

Response deadline is Nov. 30, 2026, 5:00 p.m. America/Chicago (Monday)

Source: SAM.gov. As of Nov. 7, 2026.

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DISA is seeking the capability through a prototype Other Transaction opportunity linked to its competitive Commercial Solutions Opening.1–3

The Next Generation Enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (E-ICAM) effort calls for a modular commercial off-the-shelf or software-as-a-service solution. The solution would operate across Impact Level 5 (IL5) and Impact Level 6 (IL6) environments. The prototype must address four core capabilities: Federated Identity Provider, Automated Account Provisioning, Master Entitlement Record and Federation Hub.1

Responses to the Area of Interest are due Nov. 30 at 5 p.m. Central.1

DISA’s Commercial Solutions Opening and any Other Transactions awarded through it are not subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation or its supplements.3

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  1. SAM.gov notice record sam.gov
  2. SAM.gov notice history sam.gov
  3. SAM.gov: DISA Commercial Solutions Opening (HC108425S0001) sam.gov
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Contracts · Space

Viasat wins contract for Space Data Network’s mission operations hub

The award includes a $115 million initial task order to design, field and scale the center, under a contract with a $450 million ceiling.

Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded Viasat a competitive indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the Space Data Network Backbone’s Mission Operations Center, the command announced Nov. 5, 2026. The contract carries a $450 million maximum ceiling and a $115 million initial task order to design, field and scale the center.1

Viasat, Inc. will serve as the network and mission system integration partner

Mission Operations Center (MOC) for the Space Data Network Backbone

maximum ceiling$450 millionactual

contract to Viasat, Inc., with a maximum ceiling of $450 million

initial task order$115 millionactual

to design, field, and scale the MOC

Source: Space Systems Command, Nov. 5, 2026

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Viasat will serve as the network and mission system integration partner as SSC expands its open-architecture ecosystem across multiple space-segment providers. SSC plans to bring mission integration, network operations and data transport management together through the center.1

The effort builds on the multi-vendor acquisition strategy demonstrated in the Space-Based Sensing and Targeting portfolio’s earlier Delivery Order 2 and Delivery Order 3 work. That work involved Amazon LEO for Government, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space Systems.1

Breaking Defense reported that the center will serve as the network orchestration hub for the backbone, a low Earth orbit constellation being built by SpaceX. The network’s near-term focus will be supporting the Golden Dome missile defense initiative, the outlet reported.2

DefenseScoop reported that earlier this year the Department of War awarded SpaceX a $2.3 billion contract to deliver a fully operational backbone prototype by the end of 2027.3

The center is intended to integrate mission systems across multiple constellations and providers.1 Breaking Defense described network orchestration as autonomously shifting data among satellite constellations and ground stations when congestion or jamming slows transmission.2

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  1. SSC release, Nov. 5, 2026 www.ssc.spaceforce.mil
  2. Breaking Defense breakingdefense.com
  3. DefenseScoop defensescoop.com
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