NEW YORK, N.Y. The defense airborne sensors market worldwide is projected to be worth $6.67 billion by 2030, the largest market value of any segment of the global airborne sensors market, according to a new report.

INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM--IMS 2022, DENVER. Qorvo is showing new power amplifiers for radar systems at this week's IMS 2022 in Denver.

INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM--IMS 2022, DENVER. NI is demonstrating a new fast convergence cross-correlation measurement technique to provide superior error vector magnitude (EVM) performance with wireless local area network (WLAN) signals at this week's IMS in Denver.

WHITE SANDS, New Mexico.  The Starliner Spacecraft completed its first flight test at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, according to officials from Boeing, the Starliner builder. This test of an uncrewed orbital flight vehicle was flown to demonstrate the quality and performance of the transportation system prior to crewed flights.

WILSONVILLE, Oregon.  The new Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) from Collins Aerospace is now being installed on Boeing 737 aircraft. The new EFVS includes the Collins’ EVS-3600, a multi-spectral imaging sensor to that enables pilots to “see through” poor visibility and darkness better than the human eye. 

INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE SYMPOSIUM--IMS 2022, DENVER. Semiconductor company MACOM Technology Solutions debuted its expanded power-amplifier portfolio at IMS 2022, showing the MAPC-A1605 7.0-kW power amplifier and associated products that are aimed at use in high-power/high-voltage defense applications, including radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems. 

ARLINGTON, Va. and NETANYA, Israel. Leonardo DRS and RADA Electronic Industries announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge and become a combined public company.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. IT engineering firm SMX has won a contract with the U.S. Army related to the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program -- the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program services contract -- valued at $84.5 million over five years to provide engineering, logistics, and acquisition/strategic planning services to U.S. Army ASA(ALT)/PEO Aviation.  

NEW YORK. The global market for naval surveillance radar, totaling $4.24 billion in 2022, is expected to reach $6.46 billion by 2028, a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.2%, according to a market study from The Insight Partners, "Naval System Surveillance Radar Market Forecast to 2028."

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. Engineering firm Intellectual Property Developers has introduced, together with a team from Auburn University, technology that uses zinc oxide thin-film transistors for use in radiation-hardened electronics applications in space, nuclear power facilities, high-altitude aviation, and other radiation-heavy environments.

U.S. ARMY -- DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah. Collins Aerospace recently demonstrated a unified network that the company says achieved the range and scale required to support the Army modernization and JADC2 [Joint All Domain Command and Control] initiatives for joint and coalition forces. The demonstration was conducted as part of the recent Experimental Demonstration Gateway Exercise 2022 (EDGE 22). 

DUBLIN. The global market for radiation-hardened (rad-hard) electronics for space applications, which totaled $2.35 million in 2021, is estimated to reach $4,.76 billion in 2032, according to a new study from Research and Markets, "The Radiation-Hardened Electronics for Space Application Market." 

ARLINGTON, Va. Unmanned-systems company AeroVironment announced that it won a $6.2 million firm-fixed-price contract award from the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) to supply its Puma 3 AE small unmanned aerial system (SUAS) plus spares. 

MARLBORO, Mass. Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S -- a Raytheon Technologies business) obtained a $46.2 million firm-fixed-price Project-Level Agreement under the SOSSEC Consortium’s AFLCMC Consortium Initiative OTA from the U.S. Air Force to replace the A-10C Thunderbolt II mission computer with the RI&S Common Open Secure Mission Computer (COSMC), which is a modernized processing system for combat systems aimed at enhancing air dominance and improving sustainability.

ARLINGTON, Va. Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S -- a business unit of Raytheon Technologies) reports that it has conducted successful demonstrations of a next-generation, transportable, beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) troposcatter communications system for the U.S. Army that showed high bandwidth, high stability communication links.