The US Department of Defense has awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise a ten-year, US$931 million contract to build a hybrid cloud system that will support the Pentagon's expanding artificial intelligence and data processing needs. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will deploy HPE's GreenLake Private Cloud platform across multiple high-security military data centers to strengthen the department's classified computing capabilities.

Taiwan is accelerating efforts to transform Chiayi's Minsyong district into a national hub for drone research and manufacturing. The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology expects the new Aerospace and UAV Industrial Park to welcome its first tenants in 2028 as the government positions unmanned systems as a critical growth industry.

Following trade agreements at the Xi-Trump summit, China's Ministry of Commerce announced on November 9 that it would suspend export controls on critical minerals like gallium, germanium, antimony, and graphite, signaling eased US-China tensions and a gradual restoration of technology and raw material supply chains.