Materials/Manufacturing

Magnets for Army Drones Mark 10th American Military Contract for Vulcan Elements

DURHAM, N.C., September 23, 2026 – Marking its tenth U.S. Department of War contract, Vulcan Elements announced its competitive selection by the U.S. Army to supply high-performance neodymium iron boron magnets for the Army’s drone initiative to produce small unmanned aircraft systems. The initiative is the Army’s vertically-integrated effort to produce small drones that aims to produce one million drones per year in the United States, at the Tobyhanna Army Depot in Pennsylvania. […]

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September/October 2026

Commercial Traction Builds for Cerca Magnetics Brain Scanner; New Mobile Lab for the Military to Assess Impact of ExplosivesCerca Magnetics, the British developer of a wearable brain scanner using quantum sensors to measure neural activity, […]

e-Power Technology

Commonwealth Fusion Places Largest Single Purchase Order of HTS Tape with Fujikura; Hyundai a New Backer for CFS 

DEVENS, Mass. and TOKYO (Sept. 30, 2026) — Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a leading developer of fusion energy, today announced a landmark supply agreement for high-temperature superconducting tape with Fujikura Ltd. as it accelerates the commercial […]