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Avionics

Integrated Combat System baseline delivered to U.S. Navy by Lockheed Martin - News

May 29, 2026

MOORESTOWN, New Jersey. Lockheed Martin delivered the first Integrated Combat System (ICS)-enabled baseline to the U.S. Navy, the company announced in a statement.

Avionics

Rotary-wing defense work to be supported in Canada by Airbus & partners - News

May 29, 2026

OTTAWA, Canada. Airbus signed separate cooperation agreements with CAE Inc., L3Harris Technologies, and RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Canada to support future Canadian defense programs and industry collaboration, the company announced in a statement.

Comms

Satellite ground station system to be delivered to Poland by Kongsberg - News

May 28, 2026

KRAKÓW, Poland. Kongsberg signed a contract with Poland’s Institute of Meteorology and Water Management to deliver a satellite ground station for Sentinel and polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, the company announced in a statement.

A.I.

AI-enabled, SOSA aligned 3U VPX board launched by Kontron - News

May 28, 2026

SAN DIEGO. Embedded computing company Kontron launched the VX30101, a 3U VPX computing board that it says is aimed for use in artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled mission computing, sensor fusion, rugged embedded servers, and tactical edge applications.

Avionics

Maritime surveillance aircraft to be provided to Australian Border Force by Bombardier - News

May 27, 2026

MONTRÉAL, Canada. Bombardier Defense will provide three Global 6500 aircraft for maritime surveillance missions operated by Metrea for the Australian Border Force, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Counter-UAS missile production to be expanded by AeroVironment - News

May 27, 2026

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment received an additional $20.2 million government investment to expand its Huntsville, Alabama facility for production of the Freedom Eagle-1 interceptor, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Uncrewed ground vehicle pact signed by American Rheinmetall & Harbinger - News

May 27, 2026

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. and HOUSTON, Tex. Military-vehicle maker American Rheinmetall and industrial power manufacturer Harbinger have announced a partnership under which they will develop and field a family of robotic and uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) in support of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) modernization priorities.

Unmanned

SOSA aligned mission computers released by Aitech - News

May 26, 2026

CHATSWORTH, California. Aitech released two rugged single-board computers (SBCs) for military and aerospace systems that use Intel 14th generation Core Ultra processors for edge processing and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads, the company announced in a statement.

Comms

Ruggedized software-defined radios released by Pixus Technologies - News

May 26, 2026

WATERLOO, Ontario. Pixus Technologies released the ruggedized RX420 NI software-defined radios (SDRs), which use Emerson’s NI Ettus universal software radio peripheral (USRP) X420, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Mountain Horse Solutions to compete in Drone Dominance competition for U.S. military - News

May 26, 2026

SARASOTA, Florida. Mountain Horse Solutions, working with AG3 Labs and Draganfly, was selected to take part in the Drone Dominance Program Phase II Qualifier in June 2026 at Camp Grayling, Michigan, the company announced in a statement.

Comms

Geostationary satellites to be built for U.S. Space Force by Rocket Lab - News

May 26, 2026

LONG BEACH, California. Rocket Lab won a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to design, build, integrate, and operate two geostationary orbit satellites carrying Heimdall space domain awareness payloads, the company announced in a statement.

Avionics

Military modernization programs to be provided to European customer by Elbit Systems - News

May 26, 2026

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won a contract worth about $1.4 billion from a European customer for military modernization programs, the company announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

Software pact between Raytheon, DoD will enable multimission radar operations - News

May 26, 2026

ARLINGTON, Va. Raytheon Corp. won a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop Raytheon’s “Subarray Transmit Orthogonality for Receive Multiplexing” or "STORM" radar software program. which the company says will provide “for the expansion and exploitation of transmit multiplexing" for the SPY-6 family of naval radars and enable the radars to operate independently while simultaneously allowing a single radar to perform multiple missions. 

Comms

Tactical edge computers from Atmos win Army’s NGC2 contract - News

May 22, 2026

POWAY, Calif. Rugged-computing company Core Systems, announced that it won a contract with the U.S. Army to supply the ATMOS2 Tactical Edge Computer in support of the U.S. Army Command and Control – Now (C2NOW) program.

Unmanned

Uncrewed airborne early-warning platform takes initial flight - News

May 22, 2026

LINKÖPING, Sweden. Saab reports that its airborne early-warning sensor, LoyalEye, successfully completed its first flight on an uncrewed aircraft -- the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-9B aircraft -- on May 19, marking the initial flight of the world’s first uncrewed airborne early warning (AEW) platform.