BINGEN, Washington. Insitu added Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) satellite communication and laser-targeting capabilities to its ScanEagle uncrewed aerial system (UAS) to support beyond line-of-sight intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting (ISR-T) missions, the company announced in a statement.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Palladyne AI won a U.S. patent for a system that enables multiple autonomous platforms – such as drones, robots, and fixed sensors – to coordinate tasks and share data as a heterogeneous swarm, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Anduril began flight testing of its YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), a semi-autonomous fighter-class prototype designed for manned-unmanned teaming, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment (AV) will integrate the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) standard into its AV_Halo Command software through a collaboration with OpenJAUS to enhance interoperability across uncrewed systems, the company announced in a statement.

OSLO, Norway. The Norwegian government ordered additional components for its National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) from Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace under a contract valued at approximately NOK 1 billion, the company announced in a statement.

SYDNEY, Australia. Anduril announced the opening of a 7,400 m² Ghost Shark manufacturing facility in Sydney after the Royal Australian Navy awarded a A$1.7 billion Program of Record, and that the first Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle (XL-AUV) has rolled off the line and is ready for sea acceptance testing ahead of a planned delivery in January 2026.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Terma won a $10.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide 170 additional three-dimensional (3D) audio systems for the F-16 Fighting Falcon, bringing the service's total order to 310 units, the company announced in a statement.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida. Boeing began upgrading the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF’s) P-8A Poseidon fleet with new sensors, antennas, and computing systems as part of the Increment 3 Block 2 program while also delivering Australia’s 13th aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

PASADENA, Calif. Virtualitics announced the renewal of its Automated Master Storage Planning (A-MSP) contract with the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). 

BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin announced a $50 million investment in Saildrone to accelerate development of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) equipped with military payloads and command-and-control systems, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. X-Bow Systems reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin’s Astris AI subsidiary to deploy the Astris AI Factory, a secure artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to enhance digital manufacturing operations for defense applications, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions is developing the Condor Thor 3U VPX series, a new line of rugged, single-board computers (SBCs) powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform and aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Saab won a $46 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver Giraffe 1X radar systems in support of U.S. security cooperation partners, the company announced in a statement.

PUTZBRUNN, Germany. Materials-engineering company W.L. Gore & Associates introduced its "High Speed Data Cables for Ultralight Solutions" product line, which it says weighs 50% less than many industry-standard high-speed data cables.  

AURORA, Ontario. Wolf Advanced Technology announced the development of a new family of rugged, SOSA aligned computing solutions -- which it says are accelerated by the NVIDIA IGX Thor platform -- that are designed to deliver data-center-class artificial intelligence (AI) performance at the tactical edge