ALTENSTADT, Germany. Rheinmetall says it participated in a Bundeswehr exercise at the service’s Army Combat Training Centre in Saxony-Anhalt, using its LUNA NG uncrewed aerial system (UAS) for reconnaissance and networked operations, the company announced in a statement.

RESTON, Virginia. CACI International won a five-year task order valued at up to $250 million to support the U.S. Army Capability Program Executive -- Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors in efforts tied to spectrum dominance, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS won a subcontract to provide Infrared Mission Payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 3 (TRKT3) effort supporting missile defense, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, England. Concurrent launched a 32-core 3U VPX computing board based on an Intel Xeon 6 system-on-chip (SoC) for rugged edge-computing applications, the company announced in a statement.

DELRAY BEACH, Florida. MarketsandMarkets projects the loitering munition market will grow from $5.36 billion in 2025 to $13.26 billion by 2030, representing a 19.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), the company announced in a statement.

PINNEBERG, Germany. TEWS Technologies announced an expansion of its embedded VITA 93-QMC product portfolio as it introduced eight new single-width QMC modules and a CompactPCI Serial QMC carrier, all of which the company says enable users to realize greater flexibility, simplified integration, and improved scalability for demanding embedded computing applications. 

GREENVILLE, Texas. L3Harris Technologies delivered the first MC-55A aircraft to the U.S. Air Force following integration and mission system testing tied to Australia’s Peregrine fleet, the company announced in a statement.

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii. Lockheed Martin demonstrated the first iteration of a Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype during the U.S. Army’s Lightning Surge 1 exercise with the 25th Infantry Division and other stakeholders, the company announced in a statement.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Mission-critical systems company Picogrid recently supported U.S. Army testing efforts at the National Training Center (NTC -- Fort Irwin, California) in the area of counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) defense, as the Army seeks to modernize its UAS efforts.

CHICAGO. Wireless communications provider Silvus Technologies announced the launch of the StreamCaster MINI 5200 (SM5200), what the company calls its smallest, fully-featured mobile ad hoc network (MANET) radio that is designed to equip ground forces with next-generation mesh networking to securely share voice, video, and data without the need to set up dedicated infrastructure.

REDMOND, Wash. Artificial intelligence (AI) platform provider AIM announced the award of $4.9 million in contracts with the U.S. Air Force for remote base and airfield construction and repair, under which the AIM platform enables the fully autonomous operations needed for rapid airfield damage recovery (RADR) operations.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. The HII Ingalls Shipbuilding division reports successful conclusion of builder’s sea trials for USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) -- the lead ship of the Zumwalt-class U.S. Navy destroyers -- during which the Ingalls and Navy team conducted a comprehensive series of at-sea tests following an extensive modernization availability as the Navy’s first Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) platform. 

ALPHARETTA, Ga. Mission systems provider Spectra Defense Technologies announced that it recently achieved Final Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 (C3PAO) for all locations after it underwent an independent assessment.

RESTON, Va. Critical-technology provider V2X, Inc. was awarded a spot on the massive (as much as $151 billion) contract under the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract vehicle, known colloquially as "Golden Dome." 

ARLINGTON, Va. Following 20 years of high-level innovation and testing with U.S. Army and Marine Corps partners, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Grand Challenge -- a first-of-its-kind race to foster the development of self-driving ground vehicles -- is nearing its conclusion as the Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program gets ready to wrap up.