Defense Business Brief: Fairbanks’ engine cobots; 2025 Q4 earnings; and a bit more

Two U.S. Navy submarines—one Los Angeles-class and one Ohio-class—are using robots to help extend the life of aging engines, Steve Pykett, CEO of Fairbanks Morse Defense, told Defense One.“To maintain that engine and keep it in service for longer and longer, we go in, we lift the crankshaft, the casing up. Conventionally, we would ask one of our skilled welders to sit inside that engine casing—there's a two-foot opening—and weld hundreds of weld beads to build up th