SYDNEY, Australia. DroneShield is expanding its presence in Ukraine through a new local partnership aimed at supporting its counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) technologies, the company announced.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment delivered its first P550 Group 2 electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to the U.S. Army under the Long-Range Reconnaissance (LRR) program, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking industry interest in managing a new consortium focused on accelerating research and engineering aligned with the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA), the department announced in a special notice on SAM.gov.

LONDON, United Kingdom. ODU will unveil a new range of rugged fiber-optic connectors optimized for defense applications at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London from September 9–12, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. EIZO Rugged Solutions will present its line of rugged mission displays and embedded processing hardware at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London from September 9-12, the company announced in a statement.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico. Raytheon recently conducted a test of the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS), demonstrating 360-degree coverage with its secondary radar array, the company announced in a statement.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts. Mercury Systems signed a new production agreement with AeroVironment (AV) to supply hardware for the U.S. Space Force’s Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. Concurrent released Bragi, a rugged 3U OpenVPX general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) processing card developed in partnership with EIZO Rugged Solutions and built with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 and 5000 Blackwell GPUs, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) acquired a portfolio of patents and intellectual property from San Diego-based Achates Power, Inc., the company announced in a statement.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Airbus U.S. Space & Defense and Shield AI completed an autonomous helicopter test flight using the H145 platform integrated with Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software, Shield AI announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions released two new XMC form factor video graphics and AI coprocessor cards that use NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 2000 and RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPUs, the company announced in a statement.

READING, England. Operational Solutions Ltd. (OSL) won a contract valued at up to NOK 938 million (USD 91 million) from the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency to supply counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities, the company announced in a statement.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri. Q-Net Security received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop secure communication technologies for tactical edge operations, the company announced in a statement.

BYDGOSZCZ, Poland. The Polish Ministry of National Defence finalized a Letter of Offer and Acceptance with the U.S. government to upgrade its 48 F-16 Block 52+ aircraft to the F-16 Viper (F-16V) configuration, Lockheed Martin announced in a statement.

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts. Kopin Corporation won a follow-on production contract valued at approximately $9 million to supply custom thermal imaging assemblies for a U.S. defense prime contractor, the company announced in a statement.