PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) ordered 17 CH-47JA Block II Chinook Extended Range helicopters to modernize its fleet, with production to be carried out jointly by Boeing and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), Boeing announced in a statement.
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XB-1 plane demonstrates supersonic speed with no audible sonic boom - News
February 13, 2025DENVER, Colo. Boom Supersonic announced that it had achieved what it called "Boomless Cruise" with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, as it strives to enable supersonic travel over land without an audible sonic boom.
Airborne navigation system for U.S. Navy getting Northrop Grumman upgrade - News
February 13, 2025WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. Northrop Grumman Corp. is modernizing the U.S. Navy’s airborne navigation capabilities with the implementation of the LN-251M, the next-generation upgrade of the LN-251 inertial navigation system/Global Positioning System (INS/GPS), which leverages M-Code technology.
Anduril to take lead on U.S. Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System - News
February 13, 2025REDMOND, Washington. Anduril Industries and Microsoft expanded their partnership to support the next phase of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, with Anduril taking on oversight of production, future hardware and software development, and delivery timelines, the companies announced in a statement.
LTAMDS radar guides PAC-2 GEM-T missile in live-fire test - News
February 12, 2025WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico. Raytheon’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) detected and tracked a high-speed cruise missile and guided a Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T) to intercept the target in a live-fire test, the company announced in a statement.
Hughes and partners collab to bring LEO capability to AFRL DEUCSI program - News
February 12, 2025HOUSTON. Hughes Network Systems reports that it will collaborate with Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies Inc (EACOWT) -- operating in combination as a wholly owned independent U.S. proxy company and subsidiary of Eutelsat Group -- to develop an enterprise-grade OneWeb capable low-Earth orbit (LEO) modem transceiver circuit card assembly (CCA) intended to support EACOWT’s contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program.
Safety-critical embedded company TASKING acquires LDRA - News
February 12, 2025MUNICH. Safety-critical embedded software company TASKING announced that it acquired LDRA (Wirral, U.K.), a provider of software tools for code analysis and software testing for safety-, mission-, security-, and business-critical markets.
Digital fires command center to be provided to European country by Elbit Systems - News
February 11, 2025HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won contracts totaling approximately $100 million to provide a Joint National Digital Fire Command Center (JNDFC) for a European country, the company announced in a statement.
JUMP 20 UAS selected by Danish military for tactical operations - News
February 11, 2025ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a contract from the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) to supply its JUMP 20 medium uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) to the Danish Armed Forces, the company announced in a statement. The contract, valued at up to $181 million, will span 10 years as part of Denmark’s tactical UAS program of record.
UK MOD awards Oberon satellite contract to Airbus - News
February 11, 2025LONDON, United Kingdom. Airbus won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to design and build two Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites under the Oberon program, the company announced in a statement.
Autonomous mine countermeasure drone system delivered to French Navy by Thales - News
February 11, 2025PARIS, France. Thales delivered the first serial production autonomous drone system for mine countermeasures to the French Navy under the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program, the company announced in a statement.
Acoustic minesweeping systems delivered to Royal Norwegian Navy by Patria - News
February 11, 2025OSLO, Norway. Patria delivered new SONAC ACS acoustic minesweeping systems to the Royal Norwegian Navy recently, which began operating the system last spring, the company announced in a statement.
PC-7 MKX training system selected by Royal Netherlands Air Force - News
February 10, 2025BREDA, Netherlands. Pilatus will supply the PC-7 MKX training system to the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the company announced in a statement.
Satellites launch on Rocket Lab mission for Kinéis Constellation - News
February 10, 2025LONG BEACH, Calif. Space and satellite component company Rocket Lab reported a successful launch of a mission to deploy five satellites to low Earth orbit for French Internet of Things (IoT) constellation operator Kinéis.
Soldier-system modernization to be performed by Rheinmetall for Bundeswehr - News
February 10, 2025BONN, Germany. The Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support of the Bundeswehr (BAAINBw) signed a framework contract with Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH for the procurement of additional Infantry Soldier of the Future – Enhanced System (IdZ-ES) units, the company announced in a statement.
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