NETANYA, Israel. RADA Electronic Industries Ltd., global defense technology company focused on proprietary radar solutions, has announced the receipt of production orders and commitments from customers, totaling $5 million, for its new exMHR radar platform.

BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin and Keysight Technologies, Inc. announced a collaboration to advance 5G in support of mission-critical communications for aerospace and defense applications. The companies are collaborating on a 5G.MIL testbed that Lockheed Martin teams will use to advance 5G capabilities for multiple applications.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation completed the critical design review of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) prototype for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The review establishes the company’s technical approach for sensor coverage to defeat ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S -- a Raytheon Technologies business) won a $17.5 million ID/IQ contract from the U.S. Army to provide improved Mode 5 and ADS-B surveillance capabilities for safe airspace engagement with its "Identification Friend or Foe" (IFF) transponders and cryptographic technologies.

LONDON. Babcock International Group (Babcock), defense, security, and aerospace company has been awarded a 13-year contract by the U.K.’s Defense Equipment and Support (DE&S)  for the design, manufacture, delivery/commisioning, and in-service support to the Maritime Electronic Warfare Systems Integrated Capability (MEWSIC) Increment 1.

RESTON, Va. CACI International Inc. has won a five-year, single-award task order worth potentially $785 million for Special Operations Forces Emerging Threats, Operations, and Planning Support (SOFETOPS).

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Collins Aerospace demonstrated a new directional communication system designed for small platforms such as unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in contested environments.

HAWTHORNE, Calif. Mynaric was announced as Capella Space's supplier for optical inter-satellite links (OISL). Capella Space revealed that they will become the first commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) company to demonstrate compatibility with the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) National Defense Space Architecture.

BOISE, Idaho. In order to combat the complications brought on by operating in GPS-degraded environments, Black Sage has announced the Goshawk Long Range electronic warfare (EW) Jammer designed as a directional non-kinetic effector.

LONDON. Elbit Systems U.K. (a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, Haifa, Israel) has won a contract valued at approximately $100 million (approximately £73 million) to provide the U.K. royal navy with new electronic warfare (EW) capabilities under Increment 1 of the Maritime Electronic Warfare System Integrated Capability (MEWSIC) program.

WASHINGTON. An unmanned air vehicle (UAV) demonstrated airborne recovery during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agemncy (DARPA) Gremlins program’s latest flight test deployment last month.

DALLAS, Texas. Jacobs has made a strategic investment in HawkEye 360, a company specializing in radio frequency (RF) geoanalytics, intended to provide commercially available precise mapping of global RF emissions.

CARLSBAD, Calif. Palomar Display Products, Inc. announced that it has been awarded three firm-fixed price contracts totaling over $5 million to deliver analog and digital military display systems for United States and foreign armored vehicle programs.

GERMANY. The sensor solution provider HENSOLDT is developing new artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision-making processes for military operations as part of the GhostPlay project. This is intended to support military action at the tactical level at the highest operational speed using a synthetic simulation environment.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Collins Aerospace, in collaboration with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Parry Labs, Tektonux and Palantir Technologies, conducted a multi-domain operation (MDO) demonstration at the recent Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortia Technical Interchange Meeting to highlight open systems architecture benefits.