PITTSBURGH, Penn. Aerial mobility provider Near Earth Autonomy won a contract with Naval Air Systems Command -- under the Medium Aerial Resupply Vehicle -- Expeditionary Logistics (MARV-EL) Increment 2 program -- to prototype autonomous logistics aircraft
for the U.S. Marine Corps through an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) under the Naval Aviation Systems Consortium (NASC).

ST. LOUIS, Missouri. Boeing and the U.S. Navy completed the first test flight of an operational MQ-25A Stingray under the Navy’s $805 million Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Indra Group is leading the European SCEPTER project to develop a multifunction radio frequency (RF) system demonstrator for defense platforms, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been selected to perform Phase 3 of the U.S. Space Force’s Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program after government verification of its optical communication terminal (OCT), the company announced in a statement.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia. Thales announced new tactical communications work in Malaysia that includes a local radio assembly line, more than 100 radios for Malaysian Army vehicles, and 16 airborne radios for Royal Malaysian Air Force helicopters, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Bombardier Defense and SNC signed a 10-year service agreement covering two Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft operated for a U.S. military customer, the companies announced in a statement.

GREENVILLE, South Carolina. Lockheed Martin announced that Peru selected 12 F-16 Block 70 fighter aircraft to modernize the country’s fighter fleet and support national defense missions, the company announced in a statement.

HAWTHORNE, California. OSI Systems received an undefinitized contract action with a not-to-exceed value of about $235 million to produce and integrate a homeland defense over-the-horizon radar transmit subsystem, the company announced in a statement.

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama. The U.S. Army tested a drone-delivered warhead designed to penetrate bunker targets during a live-fire demonstration at Redstone Arsenal in March, the Army announced in a statement.

KOBLENZ, Germany. Rheinmetall received an initial order worth about 300 million euros from the German military for FV-014 loitering munition systems under a broader framework agreement valued in the billions of euros, the company announced in a statement.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia. General Dynamics Information Technology announced that its autonomous surveillance towers received certification from U.S. Customs and Border Protection for border surveillance operations, the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. The Navy's second in command acknowledged the service has significant work ahead to reach its goal of having 80% of ships, aircraft, and submarines combat surge ready at any given time, using a vivid example from the early days of the Ukraine war to illustrate why the capability matters.

ASHBURN, Virginia. Curtiss-Wright launched the Ground Tactical Data Link System (GTS) Continuous Monitoring System, a centralized cybersecurity and compliance management suite designed to secure large-scale, geographically dispersed tactical networks across coalition military operations, the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Leonardo DRS has integrated its Maritime Mission Equipment Package onto an autonomous unmanned surface vessel, delivering a counter-uncrewed aerial system capability designed to detect, track, identify, and defeat aerial drone threats in the maritime domain, the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Sustained combat operations during Operation Epic Fury have given the Navy an unprecedented ability to observe shipboard combat system performance in real time and push software improvements to deployed platforms faster than ever before, the program executive officer for integrated warfare systems said at the Sea-Air-Space exposition here.