ISRAEL. Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it has won an approximately $24 million contract from the Dutch Ministry of Defence (Dutch MOD) to supply the Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) with new vehicular tactical computers. The contract will be performed over a 30-month period.

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)-Aviation at Warner Robins has awarded a $306 million 10-year indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to Terma North America in support of the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide self-protection hardware, sustainment, and engineering services under the Enterprise Contract for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC).

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems has won a $34.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy for engineering and test support services for the AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer (NGJ), currently in development for the Navy EA-18G Growler aircraft. 

CARLSBAD, Calif. Metawave Corporation has won a prime, Phase One contract by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide a high-precision, all-weather sensing solution for electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND/U.S. ARMY FACILITY, Md. The U.S. Army is now delivering its flexible expeditionary networking capability, the Integrated Tactical Network (ITN), to its Stryker armored vehicle brigade combat teams; the Army recently finished integrating ITN capabilities into dismounted units.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. IQ-Analog Corporation has announced that its Full-Spectrum Conversion wideband transceiver F1000 Antenna Processor Unit (APU) has been integrated into Lockheed Martin Corporation's next-generation digital prototype active electronically scanned phased array (AESA) sensor.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. SEAKR Engineering, Inc. (SEAKR) announced it developed on-orbit technology demonstration of Pit Boss supercomputing processing hardware in nine months as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Blackjack Program.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. BAE Systems announced it has received a $4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to conduct a quick-turnaround demonstration of a new radio frequency countermeasure (RFCM) system for the P-8A Poseidon. The pod-mounted RFCM system is a high-power system that is designed to add a new self-protection capability to this next-generation U.S. Navy aircraft.

ANDOVER, Mass. Vicor is supporting the Boeing-manufactured O3b mPOWER satellite with the first radiation-fault-tolerant DC-DC converter power modules, housed in the new Vicor SM-ChiP package.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced that it has acquired the autonomy business of Spatial Integrated Systems Inc. (SIS). The acquisition is intended to further expand HII’s unmanned systems capabilities with SIS's skilled team and unmanned surface vessel (USV) solutions.

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. Teledyne Technologies Incorporated and FLIR Systems, Inc. jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Teledyne will acquire FLIR in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $8.0 billion.

SWEDEN. Saab has received a follow-on contract with the United Arab Emirates regarding the sale of two GlobalEye systems, Saab’s airborne surveillance system. According to the company, the order value is $1.018 billion and the contract period is 2020-2025.

ROCKVILLE, Md. CEVA, Inc., licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, announced an open licensing agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate technology innovation for DARPA programs.

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