REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama. The U.S. Army assigned the designation MV-75 to its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program, marking a formal milestone in the effort to replace portions of the Black Hawk fleet with a faster, longer-range platform, the Army announced in a statement.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida. Lockheed Martin launched its eighth GPS III space vehicle (SV08) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, achieving signal acquisition shortly after liftoff, the company announced in a statement.

VALMIERA, Latvia. Assembly and maintenance of ASCOD infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) will begin at the Defence Partnership Latvia (DPL) facility in Valmiera through a new collaboration between Patria and General Dynamics European Land Systems–Santa Bárbara Sistemas (GDELS), the company announced in a statement.

RESTON, Virginia. CACI International won a contract modification from the U.S. Army to continue delivering, training, and fielding the Terrestrial Layer System Brigade Combat Team Manpack (TLS BCT Manpack), the company announced in a statement.

IRVINE, California. Anduril Industries and Meta have partnered to develop extended reality (XR) products for military use, aiming to improve warfighter situational awareness and streamline control of autonomous systems, the companies announced in a statement.

RESTON, Virginia. Leidos acquired Kudu Dynamics to strengthen its portfolio of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cyber capabilities supporting defense, intelligence, and homeland security operations, the company announced in a statement.

TEL AVIV, Israel. The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD), in collaboration with the Israeli Air Force (IAF) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, deployed high-power laser system prototypes during the ongoing Swords of Iron conflict, the company announced in a statement.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Red Cat Holdings partnered with ESAero to scale production of its Teal Black Widow small uncrewed aerial system (sUAS) through AS9100-certified manufacturing and engineering support, the company announced in a statement.

MARKNESSE, Netherlands. The Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) opened a new research facility focused on rapidly developing uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) in collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Defence, the organization announced in a statement.

MUNICH. Infineon Technologies announced the first of a new family of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) gallium nitride (GaN) transistors, aimed at use in harsh space environments.

CHICAGO. Motorola Solutions announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Silvus Technologies, Inc. -- a Los Angeles-based provider of mission-critical mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) -- for $4.4 billion in up-front consideration.  

POWAY, Calif. General Atomics won a $99.3 million contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for work on what it calls a “hybrid-electric propulsion ducted fan next-generation intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance/strike unmanned aerial system,” which it calls GHOST. 

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia. QinetiQ US won a $41 million task order to support software and technology integration for the U.S. Army’s counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) initiatives, the company announced in a statement.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California. Hermeus completed a flight test of its Quarterhorse Mk 1 uncrewed aircraft, marking a key milestone in its development of high-speed and hypersonic platforms, the company announced in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan. 7Starlake released a new 3U VPX liquid-cooled ATR system designed for defense and aerospace applications, the company announced in a statement.