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Radar/EW

LTAMDS radar enters production phase following U.S. Army approval - News

April 22, 2025

ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon began production of its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) after completing flight testing and receiving Milestone C approval from the U.S. Department of Defense, the company announced.

Unmanned

MOSA VTOL uncrewed aircraft system selected by Italy - News

April 22, 2025

ROME, Italy. AeroVironment won a $46.6 million contract from the Italian Ministry of Defence for the procurement of its JUMP 20 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), the company announced in a statement. 

Avionics

F-35 power- and thermal-management system marks 1 million flight hours - News

April 22, 2025

PHOENIX. Honeywell announced that its F-35 Power and Thermal Management System (PTMS) marked one million flight hours since the supersonic F-35 strike fighter aircraft first took flight in late 2006. 

Radar/EW

SOSA aligned 3U OpenVPX air transport rack enclosures introduced by Pixus Technologies - News

April 21, 2025

TONAWANDA, New York. Pixus Technologies introduced a new line of air transport rack (ATR) enclosures to support high-speed data throughput that is based on the 3U OpenVPX form factor and aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Mine countermeasures technology demonstrated in U.S.-ROK exercise off Korean coast - News

April 21, 2025

AT SEA, South Korea. The U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) concluded a bilateral mine countermeasures exercise known as Korean Spring Exercise on April 16, aimed at enhancing combined proficiency in mine warfare operations, the U.S. Navy announced in a statement.

Comms

Missile defense satellite payload production facility expanded by L3Harris - News

April 21, 2025

FORT WAYNE, Indiana. L3Harris Technologies has completed a $125 million expansion of its Fort Wayne space systems facility to increase production capacity for satellite-based missile warning and defense programs, the company announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

Altera to become independent FPGA firm under majority investment by Silver Lake - News

April 18, 2025

SANTA CLARA, California. Intel reached an agreement to sell a 51% stake in its Altera business to private equity firm Silver Lake, establishing Altera as an independent company focused solely on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions, the company announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

Air defense system hardware contract awarded to Kratos - News

April 18, 2025

SAN DIEGO, California. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions won a sole-source contract valued at approximately $30 million to produce air defense system hardware for a U.S. national security customer, the company announced in a statement.

Comms

AI-based situational awareness system to be integrated into Czech armored vehicles - News

April 18, 2025

PARDUBICE, Czech Republic. Retia entered into a strategic partnership with Israeli company Axon Vision to integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled situational awareness systems into Czech-manufactured armored vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Radiofrequency weapon defeats drone swarms in U.K. Army trial - News

April 17, 2025

WEST WALES, U.K. The British Army has completed its largest counter-drone swarm trial, demonstrating a radiofrequency directed energy weapon (RF DEW) system capable of neutralizing multiple uncrewed aerial targets simultaneously, the U.K. Ministry of Defence announced in a statement.

Comms

Dual traveling wave tubes from Thales delivered for Optus-11 satellite - News

April 17, 2025

ULM, Germany. Thales delivered a full set of dual traveling wave tubes (TWTs) for the Optus-11 satellite, a Ku-band spacecraft developed by Airbus Defence and Space under the OneSat reconfigurable satellite program, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Swarming software and high-density motors selected by GA-ASI for technology investment - News

April 17, 2025

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will invest in two Dutch companies—Emergent Swarm Solutions and Saluqi Motors—following their participation in the 2024 Blue Magic Netherlands (BMN) innovation event, the company announced in a statement.

Comms

Tactical Operations Center-Light tested in multi-domain C2 experiment by U.S. Air Force, Army - News

April 16, 2025

FORT IRWIN, California. The U.S. Air Force joined other services and allied forces during Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PC-C5) to evaluate joint command-and-control (C2) technologies, including the Tactical Operations Center–Light (TOC-L), the service announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Mobile ad hoc network technology from Persistent Systems to support U.S. Navy - News

April 16, 2025

NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems was added to the U.S. Navy’s Family of Systems (FoS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide data link technologies for unmanned surface vessels (USVs), the company announced in a statement.

A.I.

Autonomy debrief tool to be integrated into Shield AI’s Hivemind platform - News

April 16, 2025

WASHINGTON, D.C. Shield AI acquired the Data Driven Readiness (DDR) software toolset from Crowdbotics to enhance its artificial intelligence-enabled autonomy products, the company announced in a statement.