WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts. Kopin Corporation won a $15.4 million contract from the Office of the Secretary of Defense through the U.S. Army Contracting Command under the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) program to develop color MicroLED displays for ground soldier augmented reality applications, the company announced in a statement.

ASHBURN, Virginia. Curtiss-Wright was selected by Rheinmetall Air Defence to supply power management technology and gyroscopes for the Oerlikon Skyranger mobile ground-based air defense system, the company announced in a statement.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates. Terma signed a contract with Albwardy Damen to provide mission systems for a new series of naval vessels in the Middle East and Africa region, the company announced in a statement.

ISTANBUL, Turkey. The SANCAR armed unmanned surface vehicle (AUSV), developed by HAVELSAN and Yonca Shipyard, completed live-fire trials in the Marmara Sea, the companies announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) embarked on the initial phase of its Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program, the agency's effort to make quantum sensing viable beyond the lab and find uses on the ground, at sea, in the air, and even in space.

WASHINGTON. The global market for 3D and 4D military radars -- valued at $10.5 billion in 2024 -- is expected to undergo subtantial growth, to $17.2 billion by 2033, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.1%, according to a new report from Verified Market Reports. 

DSEI UK 2025, LONDON. BAE Systems and Thales officials kicked off a new collaboration today at DSEI in London to deliver next-generation submarine sonar capability, when they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

LONDON -- DSEI UK. Babcock International Group (Babcock) and HII signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bring together HII’s REMUS unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and Babcock’s submarine weapon handling and launch Systems (WHLS). The companies announced the MOU at the ongoing DSEI UK 2025 show, now ongoing in London. 

MEUDON, France. Thales today noted the Royal Navy’s announcement of the official in-service date (ISD) of the Thales Peregrine rotary wing uncrewed air system (RWUAS) capability, which the company called "a major milestone in strengthening the Fleet’s intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) effectiveness.

LONDON -- DSEI UK 2025. The MCM100 electronically controlled, closed-circuit, mixed-gas military rebreather with new diver-control attachment featured at Avon Protection Booth N3-310 at DSEI UK 2025 in London this week.

HORSHAM, U.K. Chess Dynamics (part of Cohort plc) announced two product launches in the area of advanced and modular land and maritime defense systems. 

LONDON -- DSEI UK. Shield AI and HII announced today at DSEI UK 2025 -- ongoing now in London -- a partnership to advance modular, cross-domain mission autonomy. Under the agreement, Shield AI’s Hivemind mission autonomy software will be leveraged with HII’s Odyssey suite to develop next-generation autonomous solutions.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Babcock International signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Australian company Critical Infrastructure Technologies (CiTech) to jointly develop a rapidly deployable hub that integrates 5G communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON -- DSEI UK. Integrated defense-technology solution company AeroVironment (AV) announced the opening of its new office in Hereford, U.K., a facility the company calls "strategically located to bring the full spectrum of the company's capabilities to the U.K. and European defense markets," thereby extending AV's global operations.

LONDON -- DSEI UK. Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace awarded Galleon Embedded Computing a multimillion-dollar contract to produce the company’s Realtime Computer XSR RTC Version 2 (RTC 2) for integration into Kongsberg’s National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), a globally deployed air-defense system.