EVERETT, Washington. DARPA held a christening ceremony for the USX-1 Defiant, an autonomous unmanned surface vessel (USV) built under the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program, the agency announced in a statement.

MANILA, Philippines. Lockheed Martin will expand their industrial collaboration in the Philippines’ Multi-Role Fighter program that includes a partnership with Southern Methodist University (SMU) to advance digital innovation, intellectual property creation, and workforce development, the company announced in a statement.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Vessel-construction company Tote Services won a firm-fixed-price contract with the U.S. Navy, worth as much as $311.4 million, to support the operations and maintenance of the Navy's Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1), which is a semi-submersible, self-propelled platform that provides ballistic missile tracking information for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). 

ANKARA, Türkiye. HAVELSAN is integrating its Corporate Artificial Intelligence Platform (MAIN) into the ADVENT Network-Enabled Data Integrated Combat Management System to enhance naval maintenance and operational decision-making, the company announced in a statement.

VILNIUS, Lithuania. Embraer Defense Europe signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with eight Lithuanian organizations to expand cooperation in aerospace, defense, and technology development, the company announced in a statement.

GROTON, Connecticut. ThayerMahan's Bluebottle uncrewed surface vessel (USV) platform is being acquired for use by Australia’s Maritime Border Command (MBC) and Royal Australian Navy to expand surveillance and patrol coverage, the company announced in a statement.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida. Redwire’s subsidiary Edge Autonomy won a prototype contract from the U.S. Army to provide its Stalker uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) for evaluation under the Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) program, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. BAE Systems made an equity investment in Oxford Dynamics, a UK-based startup focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, as part of a strategy to accelerate the integration of emerging technologies into defense systems, the company announced in a statement.

EL SEGUNDO, California. Boeing delivered the Satelit Nusantara Lima (SNL) communications satellite to PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), which will use the system to expand broadband connectivity across Indonesia and nearby Southeast Asian countries, the company announced in a statement.

SINGAPORE. Electro Optic Systems (EOS) will deliver a 100-kilowatt class high-power laser weapon system to a European NATO member for counter-drone operations, the company announced in a statement.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. The size of the military drone or UAS [uncrewed aerial system] market is projected to reach $47 billion by 2032, driven largely by increasing military spending and the growing procurement of military drones by defense forces, according to a market survey by MarketNewsUpdates. 

MCLEAN, Va. and RESTON, Va. Raft and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced they have been awarded the U.S. Air Force Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) HOPE 2.0 contract, under which the companies will support the Air Force's continued efforts to accelerate the operationalization of national space-based assets in order to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) assets to transform strategic intelligence into actionable capabilities at the tactical edge.

CEDAR PARK, Tex. Space and defense technology provider Firefly Aerospace won a $176.7 million NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract to deliver five NASA-sponsored payloads to the moon’s south pole in 2029.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Ukraine for transportation and consolidation services, with an estimated value of $99.5 million, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. RTX’s BBN Technologies won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support the Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) program, the company announced in a statement.