EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California. The RQ-4 RangeHawk from Northrop Grumman provided support for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the recent Artemis 1 mission. RangeHawk is part of SkyRange, the Department of Defense (DoD) Test Resource Management Center’s uncrewed high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE), responsive mobile flight test initiative.

ARLINGTON, Va. Raytheon Technologies recently demonstrated -- among other things -- FlexLink, an open-system radio technology developed by Raytheon's Collins Aerospace business unit intended to link multiple air and ground platforms that will ultimately connect defense networks and simplify U.S. Army command-and-control systems. 

Experts from the Navy Air Combat Electronics program office (PMA-209) recently participated in the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortia exposition in Dayton, Ohio. At the event the Avionics Architecture Team (AAT) for PMA-209 demonstrated several of its open architecture (OA) projects that are reducing software integration time and maintenance costs for the U.S. Navy. 

HAMPTON, Va. Uncrewed-systems maker Advanced Aircraft Company (AAC) has won a contract from NASA to design and build tilt-wing prototype uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) according to NASA specifications. 

LINKOPING, Sweden. Saab has signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) under which Saab will ensure the continued operability of the JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter aircraft and install capability enhancements to the aircraft's engine, electronic warfare (EW), and radar capabilities. 

MELBOURNE, Fla. L3Harris Technologies has agreed to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings (El Segundo, California) in an all-cash transaction valued at $4.7 billion, inclusive of net debt; the deal is expected to finalize in 2023, pending regulatory approvals.

TYSONS, Va. Software company DEFCON AI reported finalizing a Department of the Air Force Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract that will help accelerate the transition from prototype to production code for DEFCON AI’s operational-level logistics and mobility-training software.

MANASSAS, Va. Aurora Flight Sciences (a subsidiary company of Boeing) has been awarded phases 2 and 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, which aims to design, build, and test a novel X-plane that incorporates active flow control (AFC) as a primary design consideration. 

MELBOURNE, Fla. L3Harris Technologies recently delivered the first several of what will be more than 100 T7 explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) robots to the U.S. Air Force as part of a contract supporting the Air Force's global EOD mission.

PALO ALTO, Calif. Software-engineering firm Palantir won a modification to an existing contract with the U.S. Army -- the modification is in the amount of $10.1 million -- to conduct research and development services in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). 

RESTON, Virginia. Metron Inc. has won a $7.8 million contract from the Office of Naval Research for "advanced algorithm development for autonomous marine systems" that will support improved data autonomy capabilities across U.S. Navy uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs), the company announced in a statement.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. L3Harris Technologies has won a contract worth up to $886 million to support intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, and intelligence community, the company announced in a statement.

FORT WORTH, Texas. Lockheed Martin announced that Germany's Ministry of Defense is procuring 35 Lockheed Martin 5th-generation F-35 Lightning II aircraft. 

VAPI, India. The global electronic warfare (EW) market size is expected to reach $24.14 billion by 2028, growing at a combined annual growth rate of 4.92% from 2021 to 2028, according to a new report from Evolve Business Intelligence, "Electronic Warfare Market Analysis and Global Forecast (2021-2028) with COVID Impact Analysis."

NEW YORK, New York. The active protection system (APS) market will increase by $1.5 billion from 2022 to 2027 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2% due to the development of advanced combat systems and rising deployment of next-generation countermeasures and decoys, a new report predicts.