LOWELL, Mass. Networking technology company AiRanaculus won a $5 million award from NASA to supply several technologies that will support NASA lunar and space communications networks. 

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. The global market for airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) is projected to grow from $16.44 billion in 2026 to $21.40 billion by 2031, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4% during the forecast period, according to a recent study by MarketsandMarkets, "Airborne ISR Market -- Global Forecast to 2031."

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon (an RTX business) won a contract worth $1.1 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to produce AIM-9X Block II missiles to strengthen U.S. military inventory and meet increased demand for the missiles from allied nations.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado. BAE Systems entered into an agreement to build high-resolution imaging satellite buses for Vantor’s Vantage 20 cm-class imaging satellites for defense and intelligence programs, the company announced in a statement.

ROCHESTER, New York. L3Harris Technologies received two Foreign Military Sales orders for Falcon communication systems to support German military communications requirements, the company announced in a statement.

RESTON, Va. MIssion-critical IT provider Tyto Athene reports that it won a $51 million task order for the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Cyber Transport Systems Sustainment (CTS) contract. 

DAVIDSON, North Carolina. As military ground vehicles add more radios, sensors, electronic warfare systems, assured-positioning, navigation, and timing equipment, artificial intelligence compute, and autonomy functions, power delivery and thermal management are becoming central integration challenges for vetronics suppliers, a Curtiss-Wright official told Military Embedded Systems.

ARLINGTON, Va. Boeing won a contract worth as much as $2 billion to build two next-generation military communications satellites for the U.S. Space Force, succeeding in its bid to win the work to extend the life of one of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) most heavily used satellite networks.

ÇORLU, Türkiye. Leonardo and Baykar completed the first phase of live flight tests for the K-SWARM program, which is focused on crewed-uncrewed teaming between aircraft, the companies announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Shield AI completed its acquisition of Aechelon Technology, a company focused on simulation, physics-based sensor modeling, and synthetic environment technologies, the company announced in a statement.

HENGELO, Netherlands. Thales and the Netherlands Ministry of Defence signed a strategic partnership agreement to expand production, development, and test capacity for radar systems in Hengelo, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies delivered the VC-25B Bridge aircraft to the U.S. Air Force for use in the Air Force One fleet, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Indra Group and BAE Systems OneArc signed a Memorandum of Agreement to collaborate on simulation technologies for Spanish Army land vehicle programs, the company announced in a statement.

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia. HII provided field-support personnel for a multinational mine countermeasures exercise in New Zealand involving HII REMUS 300 unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and ODYSSEY autonomy software, the company announced in a statement.

SYMONSTON, Australia. Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited secured a $124 million order for its Slinger counter-drone remote weapon system (RWS) for Generation 5 Holding L.L.C. in the United Arab Emirates, the company announced in a statement.