CAMBRIDGE, U.K. Ground-based radar designer/manufacturer Blighter reports that it won a follow-on contract from a military customer in Southeast Asia to supply its Blighter B400 series radars for border surveillance.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a 10-year, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $499 million from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the High-Performance Electromagnetic Spectrum Survivable Materials Advancement (HELMSSMAN) program, the company announced in a statement.

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin. The U.S. Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal awarded Oshkosh Defense an $89 million order for Palletized Load System (PLS) A2 vehicles, kits, and installs under the Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV) V contract, the company announced in a statement.

WATERLOO, Canada. Pixus Technologies released a new line of 3U OpenVPX air transport rack (ATR) enclosures designed for use with 3U OpenVPX and boards aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.

VIENNA, Austria. Beyond Gravity won a contract to supply electric propulsion pointing mechanisms for a fleet of five small geostationary HummingSat telecommunications satellites built by SWISSto12, the company announced in a statement.

SPACE SYSTEMS COMMAND -- Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. & Los Angeles Air Force Base, El Segundo, Calif. The U.S. Space Force announced the operational acceptance of its Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS), a next-generation space-domain awareness (SDA) analysis system and software-acquisiton program designed to modernize and enhance the capabilities of the Space Defense Operations Center.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. GE Aerospace and Merlin have launched a joint initiative to develop an “autonomy core,” a platform leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable reduced crew, single-pilot, and ultimately uncrewed operations for military and civil aircraft, the companies announced in a statement.

NEWPORT, Rhode Island. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) will award a sole-source contract to Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc. for VPX-based computing hardware, according to a government solicitation.

CHANTILLY, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems won a $15.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide security toolkit shipsets for submarine and aircraft carrier platforms, the company announced in a statement.

PINNEBERG, Germany and RENO, Nevada. TEWS Technologies is pleased to announce that the VITA Standards Organization and ANSI have formally ratified ANSI/VITA 93.0-2025 QMC, marking a key milestone in the evolution of modular I/O and mezzanine architecture for embedded systems.

STRATFORD, Connecticut. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, won a $10.855 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to build up to 99 CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps over a five-year period, the company announced in a statement.

DULLES, Virginia. Northrop Grumman demonstrated autonomous rendezvous and docking operations between its Cygnus spacecraft and the Starlab commercial space station, the company announced in a statement.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won a contract worth approximately $120 million to deliver its Hermes 900 uncrewed aerial system (UAS) for long-range maritime surveillance to an international customer, the company announced in a statement.

MUNICH, Germany. Helsing revealed the CA-1 Europa, an autonomous uncrewed combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), with development and testing underway at its Grob Aircraft subsidiary, the company announced in a statement.

LISBON, Portugal. The European Defence Agency (EDA), NATO, and the Portuguese Navy co-organized the 15th Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping using Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS), which brought together 24 nations to test uncrewed platforms across sea, air, and land domains, the EDA announced in a statement.