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Raytheon, the defense arm of RTX, has landed seven hundred twenty-nine million dollars in new contracts to deliver its LIDS counter-drone system to the U.S. Army, Qatar, and Jordan. The Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft Integrated Defeat System represents a growing slice of the counter-drone market, and awards like this reinforce RTX's positioning as Pentagon spending on aerial threat defense continues to expand.
Shifting to financials, Singapore's United Overseas Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding with Amazon Web Services to explore cloud adoption across its global operations. For UOB, this signals a serious push to modernize infrastructure across Southeast Asia and beyond, and for AWS, it deepens the cloud giant's foothold in a regional banking sector that has been cautious but increasingly open to migration.
And in crypto, Russia's Sberbank has received authorization to operate as a crypto exchange, clearing the way for Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether trading ahead of a December launch. This is the country's largest bank stepping directly into digital asset markets, a notable development as Russia continues building financial infrastructure designed to operate outside Western-dominated payment systems.
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