PRINCETON, New Jersey. SciTec Inc. has won a $45.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force for continued development of a ground system framework responsible for collecting and processing data gathered by satellites for missile warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness, and technical intelligence, the company announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. The global low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite market is expected to grow by $7.1 billion from 2022 to 2027, according to a new report from Technavio.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Cybersecurity firm Summit 7 is collaborating with Microsoft to deploy the Microsoft Azure Government Secret cloud to Defense Industrial Base (DIB) partners to handle sensitive data on behalf of the Department of Defense. 

COLUMBIA, Md. Secure-systems provider Owl Cyber Defense Solutions has won an increase totaling $35 million to a previously awarded contract with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to produce and install secure collaborative technology software and hardware for the Air Force.

DAVIDSON, North Carolina. Curtiss-Wright Corporation has won a follow-on contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide "small form factor network router and switch modules to support communications modernization with highly portable expeditionary network communications technology," according to a company statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Northrop Grumman demonstrated a platform-agnostic in-flight connectivity solution for the U.S. Air Force recently, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON. The global market for military radar will grow from $57.91 billion in 2022 to $62.66 billion in 2023, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2%, according to a new report from The Business Research Company, "Military Radars Global Market Report 2023."

TOULOUSE, France. Thales Alenia Space -- a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo -- have won a contract to provide ground stations to Vietnam that will assist in search-and-rescue missions, Thales announced in a statement.

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUNXET RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy and Raytheon Technologies report that Raytheon completed delivery on all 23 contracted Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems low-rate production units to the Navy on time or ahead of schedule. 

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies has entered into a teaming agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries' ELTA Systems Group and Korean Air Lines to provide high-altitude airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft to South Korea's air force, L3Harris announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Va. RF technology provider CAES announced that its 3U converter was chosen to be part of the US Air Force (USAF) MIRAGE airborne electronic warfare (EW) pod demonstration. The new SOSA-aligned 3U wideband RF converter was recently sent to Georgia Tech Research Institute for integration into the demonstration. 

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions (CMPS) won a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Research & Development (R&D) program for Halo-Enabled Resilient Mesh (HERMes) software and a hardware prototype, both of which are intended to boost the technological capabilities of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) high-capacity backbone (HCB).

BALTIMORE, Maryland. Northrop Grumman will produce the Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) sensor for the U.S. Air Force E-7 aircraft, the company announced in a statement. The MESA sensor provides long-range sensing, detection, and identification capabilities, as well as simultaneous air and maritime sensing and early warning/air battle management capabilities.

WASHINGTON. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded spots on its ProTech 2.0 Satellite Domain Task Order contract to 15 small businesses; going forward, these awardees will compete for task orders on the potential 10-year, $8 billion funding vehicle to help NOAA manage its space and environmental data satellites.

ELMHURST, Ill. The market for military simulation and virtual training is expected to increase by $6.11 billion over the period 2021 to 2026, with market growth marking a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.13%, according to a new report from Technavio, "Military Simulation and Virtual Training Market by Product and Geography -- Forecast and Analysis 2022-2026."