MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies and Air Tractor have won a contract with a cost ceiling of $3 billion to provide 75 manned, fixed-wing aircraft to U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to conduct irregular warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, L3Harris announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The U.S. Air Force has chosen seven companies for the $762 million Visible Accessible Understandable Linked Trusted (VAULT) data platform contract, the Department of Defense announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Northrop Grumman has won a $3.3 billion contract from the Missile Defense Agency for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System (GWS), which is intended to defend against intermediate and intercontinental ballistic missile attacks, the company announced in a statement.

MCLEAN, Va. Defense-technology contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) won a contract potentially worth as much as $826 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that will cover integrated technology needs across the national-security arena.

NEW YORK, New York. The global C4ISR market will grow by $30.22 billion from 2020 to 2025 for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.15%, according to a new market research report from Technavio.

BERLIN, Germany. Diehl Defence and Elbit Systems signed a cooperation agreement for a protection system slated for German Armed Forces aircraft at the ILA Berlin International Air Show, Diehl said in a statement.

U.S. ARMY/WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M.  Aerospace contractor X-Bow Systems (Albuquerque, New Mexico) reports a succcessful initial launch of its Bolt Rocket -- the first vehicle in X-Bow's new suite of modular boost rockets -- at the White Sands Missile Range.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado. Ball Aerospace will conduct two 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program under a NASA contract, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a program called "Muons for Science & Security" (MuS2) with the aim of discovering a compact source of muons, which are deeply penetrating subatomic particles -- similar to electrons but about 200 times heavier -- that can be used in a variety of defense and scientific applications because they travel easily through dozens to hundreds of meters of water, solid rock, or soil.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Green Hills Software announced that its INTEGRITY-178 tuMP safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS) will be used in the replacement multifunction controls and displays (RMCD) on the U.S. Air Force's C-5M Super Galaxy strategic transport aircraft. 

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully completed environmental testing of the onobard Argos-4 payload for its satellite in advance of a planned launch this fall, the company said in a statement.

LONG BEACH, California. Rocket Lab USA has been chosen to provide solar cell assemblies to power three Lockheed Martin missile warning satellites, according to a Rocket Lab statement.

ADELAIDE, Australia. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will upgrade Australian border surveillance aircraft with SeaVue Multi-Role radars under a contract with Cobham Special Mission, the company announced in a statement.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman and aviation designer Boom Supersonic (Denver, Colorado) agreed to collaborate on a new supersonic aircraft aimed at enabling quick-reaction aviation capabilities to the U.S. military and its allies. 

LEWES, Delaware. The global market for low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites -- valued at $9.6 billion in 2021 -- is expected to grow to $34.2 billion by 2030, a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.6%, according to a new market study from Verified Market Research, "Global LEO Satellite Market Size By Type, By Application, By End-Use, By Geographic Scope And Forecast."