MCLEAN, Virginia. BAE Systems has been awarded a five-year, $251 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical support for the U.S. Navy’s AEGIS Combat System, the company announced in a statement.

ONTARIO, Canada. Pixus Technologies introduced a new C5ISR Modular Suite of Standards, or CMOSS, and Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard aligned development backplane designed to support a range of I/O intensive and compute-intensive applications, the company announced in a statement.

ELMHURST, Ill. The global market for uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) -- commonly referred to as drones -- is  estimated to grow by $36.1 billion from 2024-2028, according to a report from Technavio, "Drone Market Analysis APAC, North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, South America -- China, US, Germany, Japan, UK - Size and Forecast 2024-2028."

ULM, Germany. Hensoldt won a contract extension worth approximately 350 million euros for further development of the Eurofighter Mk1 radar, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS won a contract of more than $7 million to supply and integrate C4I Battle Management System (BMS) hardware and software into the Royal Thailand Army’s newly acquired Stryker combat vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

CEDAR PARK, Tex. Space-launch services provider Firefly Aerospace announced that the company won a $21.81 million contract to launch the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) VICTUS SOL Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Helsing will manufacture 6,000 HX-2 strike drones for Ukraine, following a previous delivery of 4,000 HF-1 drones produced in partnership with Ukrainian industry, the company announced in a statement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) ordered 17 CH-47JA Block II Chinook Extended Range helicopters to modernize its fleet, with production to be carried out jointly by Boeing and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), Boeing announced in a statement.

DENVER, Colo. Boom Supersonic announced that it had achieved what it called "Boomless Cruise" with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, as it strives to enable supersonic travel over land without an audible sonic boom.

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.  Northrop Grumman Corp. is modernizing the U.S. Navy’s airborne navigation capabilities with the implementation of the LN-251M, the next-generation upgrade of the LN-251 inertial navigation system/Global Positioning System (INS/GPS), which leverages M-Code technology.

REDMOND, Washington. Anduril Industries and Microsoft expanded their partnership to support the next phase of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, with Anduril taking on oversight of production, future hardware and software development, and delivery timelines, the companies announced in a statement.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico. Raytheon’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) detected and tracked a high-speed cruise missile and guided a Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T) to intercept the target in a live-fire test, the company announced in a statement.

HOUSTON. Hughes Network Systems reports that it will collaborate with Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies Inc (EACOWT) -- operating in combination as a wholly owned independent U.S. proxy company and subsidiary of Eutelsat Group -- to develop an enterprise-grade OneWeb capable low-Earth orbit (LEO) modem transceiver circuit card assembly (CCA) intended to support EACOWT’s contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program.

MUNICH. Safety-critical embedded software company TASKING announced that it acquired LDRA (Wirral, U.K.), a provider of software tools for code analysis and software testing for safety-, mission-, security-, and business-critical markets.  

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won contracts totaling approximately $100 million to provide a Joint National Digital Fire Command Center (JNDFC) for a European country, the company announced in a statement.