AUSTRALIA. The Australian government and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) have chosen MQ-28A Ghost Bat as the military designator and name for the Boeing Australia-produced unmanned military combat aircraft.

GERMANY. HENSOLDT announced that the company will be supplying 17 high-performance cameras to an unspecified country within Scandinavia. At the customer's site, the cameras, which are equipped with a laser rangefinder, will be used for national border surveillance on land and at sea.

NETHERLANDS. Leonardo's LIONFISH family of defense systems has been selected by the Royal Netherlands Navy to equip its Holland-class patrol vessels, Landing Platform Dock (LPD) and Joint Support Ship (JSS) units, Johan de Witt and Karel Doorman classes, and Den Helder-class Combat Support Ship.

GERMANTOWN, Md. Hughes Network Systems has won a contract worth $18 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to deploy a standalone 5G network at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington. 

FALLS CHURCH, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, announced that it has won the User Facing and Data Center Services (UDS) contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). 

STUART, Fla. & TOULOUSE, France. Satellite company E-Space announced that it will launch its first demonstration satellites during the second quarter of 2022 as it seeks to validate the systems and technology for its planned sustainable satellite system. 

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) has completed two U.S. Army flight tests intended to demonstrate the system’s scalability to enable Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) capabilities.

FRANCE. HENSOLDT France, the French subsidiary of sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT, has developed a combined software and hardware solution for cybersecurity that can be individually adapted to customer requirements.

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its implementation plan for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) concept that is aimed at helping U.S. armed forces facilitate information-sharing and decision- making through the use of a warfighting network that will use artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automation, and predictive analytics.

CHICAGO, Ill. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) and Boeing recently completed a critical design review for the Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype (PTS-P), validating Boeing’s technical maturity on the rapid-prototyping program.

GERMANY. Sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT announced that the company will be using its latest technologies for sensor data fusion and analysis to equip the Eurofighter with increased protection.

RESTON, Va. Engineering company Leidos has won a prime contract with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) to support the Navy’s undersea warfare systems. 

AUSTIN, Texas. Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Modern Intelligence has secured a $5 million seed round that will be used to deliver and test the company's AI-based maritime surveillance solution to defense users at Naval Special Warfare's Trident Specter exercise this summer and on the companies' low-data AI research.

KIRKLAND, Wash. Echodyne announced that Advanced Technology Systems Company (ATSC), the prime contractor for the $191 million dollar indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for the U.S. Army’s Security Surveillance System (SSS) program of record has received its first order for Echodyne radars to be used under the SSS program.

SAN JOSE, Calif. The global market for directed-energy weapons -- estimated at $21.4 billion in 2022 -- is predicted to reach $51.1 billion by 2026, growing at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.9% over the analysis period, according to a study by market research firm Global Industry Analysts.