LONDON, England. Babcock won a two-year extension to its Future Maritime Support Programme contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defence to continue fleet and infrastructure support for Royal Navy surface ships, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Massa Products Corporation will present its electroacoustic and ultrasonic technologies at the Sea-Air-Space 2026 maritime exposition, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Raytheon demonstrated an event-based mid-wave infrared (MWIR) camera designed to track high-speed objects in real time with reduced processing and power requirements, the company announced in a statement.

PHOENIX, Ariz.  Mission-critical software provider DDC-I announced that the U.S. Army selected its safety-critical Deos real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Army’s modular open systems approach (MOSA) aligned High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) program. 

WALNUT CREEK, Calif. The VxWorks platform from Wind River (an Aptiv company) was the software enabling reliable, real-time performance for the recently returned Artemis II mission, the company reported.

PACIFIC OCEAN. The Ecuadorian and U.S. navies carried out a bilateral maritime engagement on April 7-8 during U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Southern Seas 2026 deployment, the U.S. Navy announced in a statement.

MCLEAN, Virginia. Booz Allen Hamilton, through its venture capital arm Booz Allen Ventures, invested in Portal Space Systems, a company developing maneuverable spacecraft for orbital operations, the company announced in a statement.

WARTON, England. BAE Systems completed a test firing of a low-cost precision weapon from a Eurofighter Typhoon to examine its use against threats from uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions won a $446.8 million Other Transaction Agreement from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to support the Ground Management and Integration effort for the Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program, the company announced in a statement.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan. General Dynamics Land Systems won a $450 million agreement from the U.S. Marine Corps for the Pre-Production Development phase of the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle competition, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies won a $150 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to sustain and modernize ground systems under the Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities program, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Abaco Systems introduced the VP892, a rugged 3U VPX field-programmable gate array processing card aimed at real-time defense, communications, and industrial workloads, the company announced in a statement.

CANBERRA, Australia. Australia is supporting Canada’s effort to develop an Arctic over-the-horizon radar system, with the Jindalee Operational Radar Network set to inform the first stage of the program, Australia’s Defence Department announced in a statement.

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. Defense electronics and sonobuoy company Ultra Maritime won a sole source contract with the U.S. Navy to engage in low rate initial production (LRIP) for the AN/SSQ-125B sonobuoy, with support for annual training, peacetime operations, testing expenditures, and inventory support.

SLIDELL, Louisiana. Textron Systems won a $450 million Pre-Production Development agreement from the U.S. Marine Corps for the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle program, the company announced in a statement.