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HAMPTON, Va. Uncrewed-systems maker Advanced Aircraft Company (AAC) has won a contract from NASA to design and build tilt-wing prototype uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) according to NASA specifications. 

LINKOPING, Sweden. Saab has signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) under which Saab will ensure the continued operability of the JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter aircraft and install capability enhancements to the aircraft's engine, electronic warfare (EW), and radar capabilities. 

MELBOURNE, Fla. L3Harris Technologies has agreed to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings (El Segundo, California) in an all-cash transaction valued at $4.7 billion, inclusive of net debt; the deal is expected to finalize in 2023, pending regulatory approvals.

TYSONS, Va. Software company DEFCON AI reported finalizing a Department of the Air Force Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract that will help accelerate the transition from prototype to production code for DEFCON AI’s operational-level logistics and mobility-training software.

MANASSAS, Va. Aurora Flight Sciences (a subsidiary company of Boeing) has been awarded phases 2 and 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, which aims to design, build, and test a novel X-plane that incorporates active flow control (AFC) as a primary design consideration. 

MELBOURNE, Fla. L3Harris Technologies recently delivered the first several of what will be more than 100 T7 explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) robots to the U.S. Air Force as part of a contract supporting the Air Force's global EOD mission.

PALO ALTO, Calif. Software-engineering firm Palantir won a modification to an existing contract with the U.S. Army -- the modification is in the amount of $10.1 million -- to conduct research and development services in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). 

FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin announced that Germany's Ministry of Defense is procuring 35 Lockheed Martin 5th-generation F-35 Lightning II aircraft. 

VAPI, India. The global electronic warfare (EW) market size is expected to reach $24.14 billion by 2028, growing at a combined annual growth rate of 4.92% from 2021 to 2028, according to a new report from Evolve Business Intelligence, "Electronic Warfare Market Analysis and Global Forecast (2021-2028) with COVID Impact Analysis."

SAN FRANCISCO. Data application platform-as-a-service (DAPaaS) company Meroxa was chosen to receive a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) Phase II contract through AFWERX -- a program of the U.S. Air Force focusing on innovative technology development -- under which Meroxa will develop a real-time event streaming data architecture for Space Systems Command (SSC) to advance the integration of U.S. and allied sensor data into the Unified Data Library with the ability to easily scale for future mission needs. 

WASHINGTON. NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California on Sunday, December 11, following an historic mission, during which it traveled more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the moon and carried out its Artemis I flight test. 

POWAY, Calif. Autonomous solutions firm EpiSci received a sum of money from RTX Ventures, the venture-capital arm of Raytheon Technologies, a move RTX calls a "minority investment" in EpiSci that Raytheon says is aligned with Raytheon's longstanding leadership in the development of advanced autonomous technologies that will help drive the growth of EpiSci's Tactical AI technology for the battlefield.

LONDON. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.56% between 2022 and 2027, according to a new report from Technavio, "Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Market by Type, Application and Geography -- Forecast and Analysis 2023-2027."

LOS ANGELES. Radio-technology firm Silvus Technologies been chosen by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) to supply the Silvus StreamCaster 4400 MANET (mobile ad hoc network) radios for use in the networking on-the-move (NOTM) communications system for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) and Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV).

FORT WORTH, Texas. The U.S. Army chose Textron's Bell unit to produce and deliver the service's next-generation assault helicopter, the V-280 "Valor" tiltrotor able to take off and land vertically but also fly forward at high speeds.

PORTSMOUTH, U.K. Britain's navy has announced that it will field what it says will be the largest and most complex unmanned submarine operated by a European navy; the goal, say officials, is for the uncrewed submarine to work side-by-side with traditional crewed submarines or independently. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM. a command under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) kicked off a pilot program intended to place new cyber capabilities more quickly into the hands of operators and warfighters.

DUBLIN. The global market for military avionics -- electronic systems in military aviation that enable pilots and crews to perform such operations as combat, command and control, ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance], and radar tasks -- is projected to register a CAGR of 4.99% over the period 2022 to 2030, according to a report from Research and Markets, "Military Avionics -- Market and Technology Forecast to 2030."

GOTHENBURG, Sweden. Electronics maker CAES announced that it gave its first commercial U.S.-based license for its RISC-V/NOEL-V processor CPU core to Idaho Scientific (Boise, Idaho), a company that develops products that protect hardware and software systems that support critical infrastructure.

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