Herndon, Va.  Satellite company HawkEye 360 has won a contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to help the agency discover, characterize, and map activities that are found to emit energy in the radio frequency (RF) bands of the electromagnetic spectrum.

WILSONVILLE, Ore. Collins Aerospace announced that the company has completed a test flight intended to prove the effectiveness of its Enhanced Vision System (EVS) on a C130J aircraft. EVS is designed to increase situational awareness on commercial and business aircraft, and this test brings the system closer to military use.
 

EUROPE. Turkey’s land systems manufacturer Otokar and the European robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics signed a teaming agreement during the DSEI 2021 exhibition in London to merge resources for autonomy development and application for unmanned and robotic operations of military vehicles.

TAUNTON, Mass. The General Dynamics facility in southeastern Massachusetts hosted a mid-September gathering of leaders from the “Spartan Brigade,” 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and 3rd ID headquarters for a "distinguished visitors day" for the U.S. Army’s high-profile mobile network communication pilot effort -- known as ABCT On-the-Move, or OTM.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium published the new Technical Standard for SOSA Reference Architecture, Edition 1.0. 

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force 76th Software Engineering Group, carried out a demonstration leveraging the Air Force’s DevSecOps environment, Platform One, to provide a simulated mission software update to flight-rated mission hardware through a secure cloud environment.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., a national security solutions provider, announced that its Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems division (KUAS) has received an approximate $50 million, single award, sole source, high performance jet drone system related indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from a U.S. government agency. 

LATVIA. AeroVironment, Inc., company specializing in multi-domain robotic systems, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Telerob, received a multi-million dollar firm-fixed-price order from the Latvian Ministry of Defense (MoD) for the procurement of telemax EVO HYBRID and tEODor EVO unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs).

ARLINGTON, Va. CAES, provider of mission-critical electronic solutions, has been selected by L3Harris Technologies to develop radio frequency (RF) assemblies for its new Viper Shield all-digital electronic warfare (EW) suite.

CAMBRIDGE, Ma. Charles River Analytics developed a Compressed Parallel Architecture for augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) training in data-constrained terrain (COMPACT) for the U.S. Army.

MELBOURNE, Fla. L3Harris Technologies has received full-rate production orders for the U.S. Army’s Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form-Fit (HMS) program providing advanced multi-channel, multi-mission communications for the Integrated Tactical Network.  

NORTHBROOK, Ill. The market for airborne countermeasures is forecast to grow from an estimated $11.6 billion in 2021 to $14.9 billion by 2026, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2%, according to a new study from MarketsandMarkets, "Airborne Countermeasure System Market -- Global Forecast to 2026."

in terms of value during the forecasted period.

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) teamed up recently with the U.S. Air Force to complete a free flight test of the DARPA Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC). The missile -- built for DARPA by Raytheon Technologies -- was released from an aircraft seconds before its Northrop Grumman scramjet [supersonic combustion ramjet] engine kicked on. 

DAVIDSON, N.C. Curtiss-Wright Corporation announced that it won a contract by Raytheon Technologies to provide its rugged Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)-based processor and networking modules for use in the Next Generation Special Mission Processor (NextGen SMP). According to the company, the NextGen SMP is intended to serve as the central processing component of the AC/MC-130J aircraft.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, has won a contract by the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Missiles and Space for the Enduring Indirect Fires Protection Capability (IFPC) to produce its mobile ground-based weapon system.