SWITZERLAND. Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it has won an approximately $338 million contract by the Swiss Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport, to provide the Swiss Armed Forces with an army-wide tactical mobile Software Defined Radio (SDR) network solution under the Telecommunications Armed Forces (TK A) digitization program, Ersa mob Komm. The contract will be performed over a period of six years.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems has won a follow-on contract worth approximately $50 million ffrom the Dutch Ministry of Defense (MOD) to supply the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) with additional digital soldier and vehicular systems, as the RNLA expands its soldier-modernization program.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it has won a contract valued at approximately $27 million from the Romanian-based company, Avioane Craiova S.A., for the first phase of the upgrade program of the Romanian Air Force's (RoAF) IAR-99 Standard trainer aircraft.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it has won a contract to supply the E-LynX Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution for the combat battalion level of the Spanish Army.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems has launched E-LynX-Sat, a compact satellite communications (SATCOM) add-on system. The new system utilizes a lightweight terminal that interfaces with Elbit Systems’ E-LynX Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution.

CANADA. Elbit Systems’ Canada-based subsidiary GeoSpectrum Technologies is set to make the first delivery to a military customer of a through-water communications system featuring its C-Bass family of compact very low frequency (VLF) underwater transducers. The undisclosed NATO customer is expected to receive the long-range acoustic communications system before the end of August.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems announced that its THOR multirotor Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) mini unmanned aerial system (UAS) successfully underwent a series of environmental-durability tests ahead of Elbit's delivery of more than 1,000 THOR units to an army in Southeast Asia.