ROCHESTER, New York. Safran Federal Systems won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Robust Quantum Sensor (RoQS) program, which aims to develop positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities for Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments, the company announced in a statement.

NASA COLUMBIA SCIENTIFIC BALLOON FACILITY, New Mex. NASA recently launched a telescope designed and built by a team at University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) and the space agency that aims to identify planets beyond the solar system and find other objects in space that would otherwise go unnoticed because they are hidden by the glare of nearby stars.

CEDAR PARK, Tex. Defense-technology company Firefly Aerospace announced that it agreed to acquire defense-analytics firm SciTec, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) for approximately $855 million. 

NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems won a $34 million order from the U.S. Army to provide Wave Relay mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) devices for the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype, the company announced in a statement.

LYSTRUP, Denmark. Terma announced the deployment of an integrated counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) solution across multiple strategic sites in Denmark to protect critical infrastructure and military facilities, the company announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Blighter Surveillance Systems won a follow-on contract from a Southeast Asian military customer to provide B400 series mobile surveillance radars for border security operations, the company announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. Ground-based radar designer/manufacturer Blighter reports that it won a follow-on contract from a military customer in Southeast Asia to supply its Blighter B400 series radars for border surveillance.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a 10-year, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $499 million from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the High-Performance Electromagnetic Spectrum Survivable Materials Advancement (HELMSSMAN) program, the company announced in a statement.

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin. The U.S. Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal awarded Oshkosh Defense an $89 million order for Palletized Load System (PLS) A2 vehicles, kits, and installs under the Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV) V contract, the company announced in a statement.

WATERLOO, Canada. Pixus Technologies released a new line of 3U OpenVPX air transport rack (ATR) enclosures designed for use with 3U OpenVPX and boards aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.

VIENNA, Austria. Beyond Gravity won a contract to supply electric propulsion pointing mechanisms for a fleet of five small geostationary HummingSat telecommunications satellites built by SWISSto12, the company announced in a statement.

SPACE SYSTEMS COMMAND -- Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. & Los Angeles Air Force Base, El Segundo, Calif. The U.S. Space Force announced the operational acceptance of its Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS), a next-generation space-domain awareness (SDA) analysis system and software-acquisiton program designed to modernize and enhance the capabilities of the Space Defense Operations Center.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. GE Aerospace and Merlin have launched a joint initiative to develop an “autonomy core,” a platform leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable reduced crew, single-pilot, and ultimately uncrewed operations for military and civil aircraft, the companies announced in a statement.

NEWPORT, Rhode Island. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) will award a sole-source contract to Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc. for VPX-based computing hardware, according to a government solicitation.

CHANTILLY, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems won a $15.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide security toolkit shipsets for submarine and aircraft carrier platforms, the company announced in a statement.