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Radar/EW

Ground-based radar system for Romania to be developed by Northrop Grumman, ROMARM - News

July 02, 2025

BUCHAREST, Romania. Northrop Grumman signed a memorandum of understanding with Romanian defense company ROMARM to jointly offer a ground-based radar system to the Romanian Air Force, the company announced in a statement.

Avionics

New NAVAIR HOST open standards framework website launches - News

July 02, 2025

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)--PATUXENT RIVER, Md. NAVAIR’s open standards framework, Hardware Open Systems Technologies (HOST), launched its new website, which can be found at https://www.navair.navy.mil/host/

Unmanned

DriX H-8 uncrewed surface vessels ordered by European customer for ISR missions - News

July 01, 2025

PARIS, France. Exail won a contract to deliver five DriX H-8 uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to an unnamed European nation for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations, the company announced in a statement.

Avionics

A-29 Super Tucano aircraft delivered to Paraguayan Air Force - News

July 01, 2025

SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS, Brazil. Embraer delivered four A-29 Super Tucano light attack and trainer aircraft to the Paraguayan Air Force, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Protocol-based counter-drone tech integrated into Drone Dome system - News

July 01, 2025

TEL AVIV, Israel. Sentrycs’ protocol-based counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) technology has been integrated into Rafael’s Drone Dome defense system, the company announced in a statement.

Comms

Satellite-based maritime info pact signed between MDA Space, Canadian government - News

June 30, 2025

BRAMPTON, Ontario. Canadian space-industry player MDA Space Ltd. announced its plans to sign a contract extension with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to provide critical and continuous maritime-satellite surveillance data and analytics services for dark vessel detection. 

Unmanned

Diehl, Sener to collaborate on remote carriers, UGVs, and hypersonic technologies - News

June 30, 2025

PARIS, France. Diehl Defence and Sener signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on technologies related to hypersonic missiles, uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs), and remote carriers for future combat air systems (FCAS), the companies announced in a statement.

Radar/EW

Eurofighter radar Mk1 receives subsystem upgrade to enhance mission performance - News

June 30, 2025

MADRID, Spain. HENSOLDT and Indra completed production of the first Eurofighter Common Radar System Mk1 (ECRS Mk1) units equipped with advanced processor and antenna control subsystems, the companies announced in a statement.

Comms

Kongsberg, Thales to form tactical and secure communications joint venture - News

June 30, 2025

OSLO, Norway. Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Thales will merge their Norwegian-based tactical and secure communications businesses into a new 50/50 joint venture aimed at serving the growing communications needs of NATO and allied armed forces, the companies announced in a statement.

A.I.

AI-powered object detection technology to be provided to NGA by Maxar - News

June 30, 2025

WESTMINSTER, Colorado. Maxar Intelligence won a contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) Luno A program to deliver automated object detection services using artificial intelligence and machine learning, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Wildcat drone completes forward flight transitions for DARPA - News

June 27, 2025

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment’s Wildcat uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) has completed a series of flight milestones under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Early VTOL Aircraft Demonstration (EVADE), part of the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY (ANCILLARY) program, the company announced in a statement.

Comms

MOSA space RF payload to launch aboard K2 Space Gravitas Mission - News

June 27, 2025

EL SEGUNDO, California. A space radio frequency (RF) payload from Pacific Defense based on the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) will launch aboard the K2 Space Gravitas Mission in February 2026, the company announced in a statement.

Cyber

DARPA convenes colloquium to advance rigorous cybersecurity techniques - News

June 26, 2025

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held its Resilient Software Systems Colloquium, during which more than 300 participants from across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), defense industry, U.S. government, allies, academia, and formal-methods developers convened as part of DARPA's goal to catalyze widespread adoption of formal methods, mathematically rigorous techniques that can dramatically improve the security and reliability of software systems.

Unmanned

Newest MQ-4C Triton drone undergoes testing with U.S. Navy - News

June 26, 2025

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. Northrop Grumman’s newest MQ-4C Triton uncrewed aircraft is undergoing flight testing with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned

Crewed/uncrewed Ermine vehicles to be delivered to Ukraine - News

June 26, 2025

THE HAGUE, Netherlands. The Dutch Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with Rheinmetall Defence Nederland to deliver 20 Ermine ground vehicles to the Ukrainian armed forces, the company announced in a statement.