WEST 2023 CONFERENCE & EXPOSITION -- SAN DIEGO. Phoenix International Systems (Orange, California) announces the debut of its RPC16 rugged network attached storage (NAS) server at this week's AFCEA/USNI West 2023 Conference and Exposition.

ARLINGTON, Va.  CAES has won a contract with the U.S. Navy -- with a reported value of as much as $38.5 million over five years -- to supply spares, engineering services, and repairs on antenna-array panel assemblies to continue to support the SEWIP Block 2 program.

TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany. Hensoldt has won a $100 million euro ($107 million) contract to develop "essential core elements" of the novel sensor network in the German-French-Spanish armament project known as the Future Combat Air System (FCAS), the company announced in a statement.

VIENNA, Austria. Schiebel and Thales have won a contract to provide S-100 Camcopter uncrewed air systems (UAS) to the UK Ministry of Defence to provide naval surveillance to protect Royal Navy ships, Schiebel announced in a statement.

FULLERTON, Calif. Raytheon Intelligence & Space (a business segment of Raytheon Technologies) won a foreign military sales (FMS) contract with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Traffic Management Systems Program Office to deliver the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF).

NORTHBROOK, Ill. The soldier-system market is predicted to grow from $10.4 billion in 2022 to $12.8 billion by 2027, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4% during the study period, according to a report from MarketsandMarkets, "Soldier Systems Market." 

ROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois. The U.S. Army has approved Northrop Grumman's Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) system, giving the program the green light to move forward with fielding CIRCM systems on more than 1,500 Army aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

FAIRFAX, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems has won a $22.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division to protect classified mission data at rest, the company announced in a statement.

FAIRFAX, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems has won a $5.5 million contract for the sustainment of Prophet Enhanced sensor systems for the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

ELKRIDGE, Maryland. Teledyne FLIR Defense has won a $13.3 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to expand the capabilities of the R80D SkyRaider uncrewed aerial system, which is designed to autonomously perform chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) reconnaissance missions, the company announced in a statement.

DUBLIN, Ireland. An increasing demand for remote weapon stations in close-combat situations and the rise in tensions around the globe has created a lucrative remote weapons station market over the next few years, a new report predicts.

ASHBURN, Va. Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division announced that it won a contract with the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division -- a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract worth more than $8.7 million -- to supply its Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)-based single-board computer (SBC) technology in support of the AN/UPX-24(V) identification friend or foe (IFF) radar system processor sets.

MCLEAN, Virginia. IronNet will deliver cybersecurity services under a new contract with the U.S. Navy after completing a pilot program that involved providing the IronNet Collective Defense Platform to Naval Sea Systems Command, the company announced in a statement.

LYNGBY, Denmark. Cobham Satcom will provide SAILOR XTR user terminals to the U.S. Navy on behalf of prime contractor Inmarsat Government as part of a $578 million contract, the company announced in a statement.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Keysight Technologies finalized a five-year contract with the U.S. Army Contracting Command (Redstone Arsenal, Alabama) -- worth $28.6 million -- under which Keysight will design and build the CM-523/U battery-operated handheld spectrum analyzer.