LONDON, United Kingdom. The UK Ministry of Defence's SERPENS deep-find radar program will be developed by a team consisting of Babcock and Israel Aerospace Industries (IA), along with subsidiary ELTA Systems, according to a Babcock statement.

MCLEAN, Va. The Mission Technologies division of shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has won a $79 million Mobility Air Force Distributed Mission Operations (MAF DMO) task order under the U.S. Air Force’s Training Systems Acquisition III contract. 

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Massachusetts. Raytheon Intelligence & Space has delivered the initial operating capability (IOC) for a new communications platform to be used by nuclear bomber, missile, and support aircraft crews, the company said in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) chose 11 teams for the first phase of what it's calling the "Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node" or Space-BACN program, which intends to build a low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that adapts to most optical intersatellite link standards, translating between diverse satellite constellations and creating what the agency dubbed an "internet" of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites. 

VAPI, India. The global market for military aircraft communication avionics market is predicted to grow at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 6% from 2022 to 2032, according to a new report from Evolve Business Intelligence, "Global Military Aircraft Communication Avionics Market by Aircraft Type, Component, Sales Channel, Solution, and Geography -- COVID-19 Impact Analysis, Post COVID Analysis, Opportunities, Trends, and Forecast from 2022 to 2030."

LEAWOOD, Kansas. Artificial intelligence data infrastructure company Torch.AI won a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to provide software for a new cyber and insider threat analysis capability called the System for Insider Threat Hindrance (SITH), the company announced in a statement.

DUBLIN, Ireland. The war in Ukraine is likely to drive the global market for smart weapons in the coming years, boosting it from $17.6 billion in 2022 to $22.1 billion by 2026 for a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.6%, according to a new report.

WALTHAM, Massachusetts. QinetiQ US has won an Army prototyping and integration contract worth $45 million, the company announced in a statement.

AMSTERDAM. Development of next-generation information warfare systems will continue to be a growth area for the electronic warfare (EW) market over the next eight years, according to a new market study from Market Forecast, "Electronic Warfare -- Market and Technology Forecast to 2030."

NORTHBROOK, Ill. The market for military wearables -- defined as smart electronic devices and equipment incorporated into a soldier’s clothing or worn on the body as implants or accessories -- is projected to grow from $3.1 billion in 2022 to $3.4 billion by 2027, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.8%, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets, "Military Wearables Market." 

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Lockheed Martin validated prototype communications radio technology for the Next Generation Interceptor during a recent test, the company announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. A new report predicts that the global cognitive electronic warfare system market will grow incrementally by $632.2 million from 2021 to 2026, which would represent a 20% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Innovate Beyond 5G (IB5G) Program recently launched three new projects as it attempts to advance DoD collaborative partnerships with industry and academia for 5G-to-NextG wireless technologies. 

MCLEAN, Va. Communications company SpaceLink has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center (USASMDC-TC -- Redstone Arsenal, Alabama) under which the partners will cooperate to explore alternative space communications pathways to ensure resiliency and reduce sensor-to-shooter latency. 

NEW YORK, New York. The global aircraft weather radar system market will grow by about $58 million from 2022 to 2026, but market growth will decelerate at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.18% (compared to 4.54% for 2022), according to a new report.