ARLINGTON, Virginia. Officials at CAES announced that Herley -previously under Ultra - has joined CAES to grow the company’s footprint in the RF market. The combination enables CAES to add capabilities in missile flight instrumentation, customized RF solutions for microwave assemblies, and tactical radio frequency.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. MOSA [Modular Open Systems Approach] board and systems supplier Annapolis Micro Systems is hosting its 4^th Annual High-Performance Signal Processing & Embedded Computing Seminar and Open House at its Annapolis, Maryland headquarters on April 13, 2023. The event is free and open for registration for all customers, partners, and prospects. Register here.

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. Northrop Grumman reports that it is leveraging digital virtual-reality (VR) technology to refine the design and development of the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Polar (NGP) satellites, which it is building for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC).

ATLANTA, Georgia. Sikorsky has tapped CMC Electronics to supply flight management systems (FMS) for U.S. Army and Air Force Black Hawk helicopter models including the UH-60M, HH-60M, HH-60W, S-70i, and the S-70M, CMC announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory soon will launch the Space Wireless Energy Laser Link (SWELL), an in-space laser power beaming experiment, the NRL announced in a statement.

CHICAGO, Illinois. The assured position, navigation, and timing (PNT) market will grow from $400 million in 2022 to $1.7 billion by 2027 for a compound annual growth rate of 29.8% over that period, a new report predicts.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado. Ball Aerospace launched a prototype on-orbit data processing payload on Loft Orbital's YAM-5 mission board a SpaceX rocket earlier this year, Ball Aerospace announced in a statement.

WILMINGTON, Mass. Semiconductor maker Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) announced that green-technology company Envision Energy (Shanghai, China -- a subsidiary of Envision Group) is adopting ADI's MEMS [microelectromechanical sensor] technology in the new generation of Envision Energy smart wind turbines. 

CANNES, France. Thales Alenia Space has won a €43 million ($46 million) contract for the EuroHAPS (High-Altitude Platform Systems) demonstration project to design a stratospheric platform for a European consortium of 21 partners, 18 subcontractors, and 11 countries, the company said in a statement.

ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada. Kraken Robotics won a contract worth $1.5 million from a U.S. defense customer to furnish its AquaPix synthetic aperture sonar (SAS), which the customer will integrate in its autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). 

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts. A microdisplay used in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's helmet-mounted display system has completed its full performance validation, manufacturer Kopin Corporation announced in a statement.

CHICAGO, Illinois. The global market for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) will be worth $40 billion more in 2028 than it is today, a new report predicts.

AURORA, Colo.  Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that the U.S. Air Force plans to buy 200 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter jets to pair with at least 1,000 small uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) -- known as Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCAs) -- during his address at this week's 2023 Air and Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium.

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Blighter Surveillance Systems has won a contract to supply multi-mode A800 3D e-scan radars to Raytheon UK as part of a laser weapon project with the UK Ministry of Defence, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Kratos has won a $21.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for Lot 19 of full-rate production of the BQM-167A target, the company announced in a statement.