LONDON, England. Thales completed factory acceptance tests for both the mission and combat systems on the Royal Navy’s new Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON. Motorola Solutions and Nokia announced an agreement under which the companies will collaborate to deliver a next-generation, containerized tactical communications network solution for U.K. defense agencies.

KIRKLAND, Wash. Radar-platform company Echodyne announced that it has been chosen to be the radar provider within the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Project Land 156, the Australian government’s project to equip the ADF with continuous counterdrone capabilities. 

GRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth $9.8 billion for the production of 1,970 Patriot Advanced Capability – 3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) interceptors and associated hardware, marking the largest contract in the history of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control history

LONDON. Advanced Navigation, a provider of assured positioning navigation and timing (APNT) technologies and autonomous systems, has expanded its Boreas range with the new 50 Series -- its compact fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation system (INS) -- in conjunction with DSEI UK 2025, set to be held at the ExCel Centre in London, September 9-12, 2025. 

SYLMAR, California. Industrial Electronic Engineers (IEE) will showcase a lineup of ruggedized military display systems at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2025 exhibition in London, the company announced in a statement.

HERNDON, Virginia. L3Harris Technologies won a contract from Austal USA to provide integrated systems support for the U.S. Navy’s first T-AGOS-25 class ocean surveillance ship, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. HENSOLDT will present a range of sensor and electronic surveillance technologies at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2025 exhibition in London, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler Communications conducted a demonstration of bi-directional optical communications between an aircraft-mounted optical terminal and a low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite compatible with the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 0 architecture, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON. Thales will participate in DSEI UK 2025 -- set to be held at the ExCel Centre in London, September 9-12, 2025 -- by showing how its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mission-critical systems can deliver trusted help military users gain faster, clearer decisions in contested environments. 

ALVERCA DO RIBATEJO, Portugal. The Portuguese Air Force received its first A-29N Super Tucano aircraft at OGMA facilities following a transfer flight from Embraer’s site in Brazil, the company announced in a statement.

ANDØYA, Norway. Andøya Space and Rheinmetall Nordic AS signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to expand civil and military space operations with a focus on rapid satellite deployment, the companies announced in a statement.

LONDON. Teledyne FLIR OEM (part of Teledyne Technologies Inc.) announced the launch of its Boson+ IQ Development Kit, a solution that combines reference hardware with Prism software, enabling integrators to rapidly develop edge artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities using advanced thermal sensing across defense, security, and industrial platforms. Teledyne FLIR OEM will show the new kit at DSEI UK 2025, set to be held at the ExCel Centre in London, September 9-12, 2025.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Army awarded three Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreements under its Unmanned Systems (UxS) Autonomy effort to Forterra (Clarksburg, Maryland), Overland AI (Seattle, Washington), and Scout AI (Sunnyvale, California), the service announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. The U.S. Air Force is increasingly banking on open system designs to keep pace with fast-moving threats and ensure new capabilities reach the field quicker, Brig. Gen. Jason Voorheis, program executive officer for fighters and advanced aircraft, told attendees at the MOSA Summit here Friday.