SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. General Dynamics Mission Systems has signed a contract worth $481.6 million to help the U.S. Army maintain a signals-intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic-warfare (EW) system for military ground vehicles. 

SAN DIEGO, California. The chief executive officer of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI), one of the largest manufacturers of military drones in the world, pleaded with the U.S. government in a recent statement to allow the company to send drones to Ukraine to help fight Russia.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop "an aircraft capable of sustained seaborne strategic and tactical lift," the company announced in a statement.

FREMONT, California. Elma Electronic has added six more high-speed backplanes that align with The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard 1.0 which will enable complex, high-speed signal processing, the company said in a statement.

PORTLAND, Oregon. The satellite communications market will continue to show very strong growth in the coming years, more than doubling from $25.8 billion in 2021 to $61.5 billion by 2031, a new report predicts.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Lumen Technologies will provide secure, mission-critical communications services to the U.S. Department of Defense under a $223 million contract, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Boeing has won a $1.6 billion contract over 16 years for ongoing intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) guidance systems work, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. A small uncrewed aerial system (UAS) was launched from another UAS -- the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range -- in a U.S. Army test at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah recently, according to a statement from manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems.

BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin has completed the assembly of the first LM 400 multi-mission spacecraft ahead of its first launch later this year, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. The Viper Shield electronic warfare (EW) system that will go on F-16 Block 70/72 foreign military sales aircraft has achieved a critical design review (CDR) milestone, manufacturer L3Harris Technologies announced in a statement.

SANTA CLARA, California. ANELLO Photonics has won a contract from the U.S. Army to provide vehicle navigation solutions compliant with the C5ISR/Electronic Warfare Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS), the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Va. Mission-critical RF company CAES won a spot to continue contributing to the U.S. Air Force on the Extremely Wideband Radio Frequency Spectrum Operations (EWO) system.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey. The global market for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) will be worth $178.74 billion by 2030 for a compound annual growth rate of 4.84%, a new report predicts.

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. L3Harris Technologies recently delivered the Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) space vehicle -- a satellite billed as an alternative to GPS -- to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) integration and test facility at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. 

ROME, Italy. A team of Italian companies has signed a contract for the next development phase of the country's 6th-generation air system, Leonardo announced in a statement.