SYDNEY, Australia. DroneShield has established a counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) manufacturing line in the European Union through a collaboration with a contract manufacturer, the company announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, England. Blighter won a contract to supply border surveillance radars and related software to an undisclosed Eastern European army for fixed and vehicle-mounted border monitoring, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA’s X-76 experimental aircraft entered the build phase under Bell Textron as part of the SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies program, the agency announced in a statement.

FORT WORTH, Texas. Elbit Systems of America won a $120.5 million Other Transaction Authority contract from the U.S. Army to develop the Soldier Borne Mission Command system, the company announced in a statement.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida. Autonomous drone and autonomous systems company Powerus is set to merge with Aureus Greenway Holdings in a deal that would create a combined company expected to trade on Nasdaq as PUSA, the company announced in a statement.

GERMANTOWN, Md. Hughes Network Systems announced that it won the Space Technology Advanced Research – Fast-tracking Innovative Software and Hardware (STAR-FISH) award from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development (RAPID) program for intelligent space data networks that leverages U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), allied, and commercial satellite communication networks.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) is no longer just a government acquisition goal -- it's now a business strategy for defense suppliers trying to move technology into the field faster, said panelists at the Military Embedded Systems MOSA Virtual Summit on Feb. 26.

PINNEBERG, Germany. TEWS Technologies GmbH announced the release of its TVNX210, a VNX+ carrier board intended for use with QMC modules. 

Aliso Viejo, Calif. Holt Integrated Circuits announced the release of its ADK-85104 evaluation board, a small ready-to-use platform intended to help engineers rapidly evaluate and characterize Holt’s HI-85104 fault-isolated quad ARINC 429 line driver. 

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Design and test engineering firm Keysight Technologies signed a $12.5 million follow-on contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide kits for assembling the Versatile Diagnostic Automatic Test Station (VDATS), a modular open systems approach (MOSA)-based automatic test solution for avionics maintenance and repair. 

CHANTILLY, Va. General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) announced that it won a cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee follow-on contract with an initial order value of $255 million as the prime integrator for the U.S. Navy Trident II Fire Control System (FCS).

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. The market for communications technologies used with drones or uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) is projected to grow from $2.67 billion in 2025 to $4.09 billion by 2030, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.8% during the forecast period, according to a study by MarketsandMarkets, "Drone Communication Market -- Global Forecast to 2030."

HARSTAD, Norway. Shield AI says it demonstrated ship- and land-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions with its V-BAT uncrewed aerial system (UAS) during NATO’s HEIMDALL 26 exercise in Norway, the company announced in a statement.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. AeroVironment plans to invest more than $30 million to expand manufacturing across three existing sites in Albuquerque’s Sandia Science & Technology Park, the company announced in a statement.

DENVER, Colorado. Lockheed Martin will provide an anti-jamming communications payload for Japan’s Next-Generation Defense Satellite Communication System being developed by Mitsubishi Electric for Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the company announced in a statement.