ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon (an RTX business) reports that it signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy worth $646 million to continue producing AN/SPY-6(V) radars for Navy ships; this is the fourth option exercised from the March 2022 hardware, production and sustainment contract that is valued up to $3 billion over five years.

NEW YORK. Mobile-networking company Persistent Systems announced that its Wave Relay devices gained approval from the National Security Agency (NSA) as IPsec VPN Gateway and MACsec components.

ARLINGTON, Va. In a series of recent tests held at the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program reported setting several new records for transmitting power over distance, with the POWER team recording more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser situated 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away; over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred.

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. The U.S. Marine Corps received its final MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 Extended Range uncrewed aerial system (UAS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, concluding a three-year delivery program, the Naval Air Systems Command announced in a statement.

EL SEGUNDO, California. BAE Systems won a $1.2 billion contract from U.S. Space Systems Command to develop a medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite system for missile warning and tracking, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Northrop Grumman and Marshall Land Systems signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop command-and-control hardware in support of the United Kingdom’s Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) program, the company announced in a statement.

DULLES, Virginia. Northrop Grumman completed integration of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s robotic payload onto its Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), a key milestone in the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the company announced in a statement.

PHOENIX, Arizona. Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-7000 weather radar system has received certification from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) for installation on Bombardier Learjet 40 and 45 aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

MOORPARK, California. Quantum Systems opened a new 135,000-square-foot U.S. facility in Southern California to scale manufacturing and integration of its AI-enabled intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platforms, the company announced in a statement.

GREENLAWN, New York. BAE Systems won a $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to update the AN/APX-123A(V) Common Transponder (CXP) used for Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) applications, the company announced in a statement.

SYRACUSE, New York. The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration chose Lockheed Martin’s TPY-4 ground-based radar to expand the country’s long-range air surveillance capabilities, the company announced in a statement.

GREENLAWN, N.Y. BAE Systems won a $30 million contract with the U.S. Navy to refresh the AN/APX-123A(V) Common Transponder (CXP), which is intended to enhance the system's cybersecurity and interoperability and support the latest U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) standards.

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon (an RTX business) won a contract worth $1.1 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to produce AIM-9X Block II missiles.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. Blighter launched what it says is its longest-range smart border-surveillance radar system,  which can detect a person 15 km (9.3 miles) away using only 4 W of power, or the same amount of juice needed to power a cellphone or an LED bulb.

BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin will launch a new initiative called AI Fight Club later this year, a competitive simulation platform designed to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) systems for defense applications under Department of Defense (DoD)-aligned conditions, the company announced in a statement.