SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Red Cat Holdings will enter the maritime autonomy market with a new line of uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), expanding its multi-domain unmanned systems offering across air, land, and sea, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment signed a new agreement with the Dutch Ministry of Defence to modernize the Netherlands’ Puma 3 AE uncrewed aerial system (UAS) fleet and expand the country’s use of long-endurance systems, the company announced in a statement.

HELSINKI, Finland. Patria and Swedish company ACC Innovation have agreed to jointly develop a military variant of the Thunder Wasp GT quadcopter drone for delivery to a NATO member country, the companies announced in a statement.

CARLSBAD, California. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command has tasked Viasat to continue development and testing of a space-based optical laser terminal as part of Phase 2 of the Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program, the company announced in a statement.

TOULON, France. Kontron released the µDARC microserver, a ruggedized, low-power computing system designed for mobile defense applications in networked environments, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Exail and Spanish partner Grafinta will supply the UmiX-40 inertial measurement unit (IMU) for integration into the navigation system of Airbus’s SIRTAP tactical uncrewed aerial system (UAS), the company announced in a statement.

ATHENS, Greece. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly offer the BlueWhale uncrewed submarine system to the Hellenic Navy, the companies announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Blighter wopn multiple international orders for its ground-based electronic-scanning radars used in border surveillance applications, contributing to a £25 million order book over the past 12 months, the company announced in a statement.

PORTSMOUTH, Rhode Island. Vatn Systems introduced a new 12.75-inch diameter autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed to support both torpedo and uncrewed underwater missions, the company announced in a statement.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. goTenna launched a new mesh networking radio, the Pro X2m, designed for integration into third-party defense and law enforcement platforms to enable off-grid, secure communications for uncrewed and autonomous systems, the company announced in a statement.

HELSINKI, Finland. Finland's Patria Group announced that it will lead an industry consortium for the new joint Artificial Intelligence Warfare Adaptive Swarm Platform (AI-WASP) program, which will develop a new generation, scalable, and cognitive multifunctional software-defined converged aperture and transceiver (AIMA).

At SOF Week 2025, Heath Niemi, vice president of Strategic Engagement at Shield AI, highlights the capabilities of the V-BAT tactical uncrewed aerial system - a Group 3 vertical take off and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) equipped with Shield AI’s proprietary Hivemind autonomous pilot software.

TAMPA, Florida. Special operations forces, conventional military, interagency partners, and allies must focus on better integration, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said during his remarks Thursday at SOF Week 2025. 

SOF WEEK 2025 -- Tampa, Fla. Galvion, a supplier of integrated headwear systems and power/data-management solutions, unveiled its CORTEX smart head system integration platform at the currently underway SOF Week 2025 exhibition in Tampa, Florida. CORTEX was engineered to provide intelligent integration and mission-adaptable configurations, turning helmets into multi-role tools. 

WOODBRIDGE, Va. Cybersecurity and IT provider Sev1Tech reports that it won a $262 million contract with the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office, Command, Control and Communications Network.