WATERLOO, Ontario. Pixus Technologies introduced new 1-slot 3U OpenVPX backplanes, including versions compatible with MultiGig RT3, the company announced in a statement.

IRVINE, California. The U.S. Army chose Anduril Industries’ Ghost-X small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) for the Company Level Small Unmanned Aircraft System Directed Requirement (DR), the company announced in a statement.

BILLERICA, Massachusetts. Teledyne FLIR Defense won contracts from the U.S. Army Contracting Command with a combined potential value of up to $47 million to provide a range of uncrewed ground systems to the U.S. government, the company announced in a statement.

SYDNEY, Australia. Anduril Australia won a three-year contract with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to demonstrate its autonomous air and ground defense capabilities at RAAF Base Darwin, the company announced in a statement.

QUANTICO, Virginia. Electra conducted flight demonstrations of its hybrid-electric Ultra Short aircraft prototype for U.S. military stakeholders at Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico and Felker Army Airfield at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, the company announced in a statement.

LOS ANGELES, California. Epirus is developing the Leonidas Expeditionary high-power microwave (HPM) system under a $5.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR), the company announced in a statement.

GREENLAWN, N.Y. BAE Systems won a $19 million contract from the U.S. Navy to design and implement UPX-24 target data-processor capabilities into a single digital interrogator (DI) identification friend or foe (IFF) solution, which is intended to optimize data collection and processing to enable timely insights in order to enhance decision-making on Navy ships. 

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom. Boeing completed the first flight of the UK's E-7 Wedgetail aircraft, marking a milestone in the Royal Air Force's (RAF) test and evaluation phase, the company announced in a statement.

DUSSELDORF, Germany. Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland have agreed to continue their collaboration on laser weapon technology, aiming to develop a joint maritime product within the next five to six years, the companies announced in a statement.

PALM BAY, Fla. Reticulate Micro announced that it and several partners -- Curtiss-Wright and Nantenna -- successfully demonstrated what the the company says is the first-ever real-time video streaming over the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) tactical satellite network for a U.S. Special Operations organization.

DEADHORSE, Alaska. Northrop Grumman Corporation demonstrated the MQ-4C Triton uncrewed aerial system’s (UAS) navigation capabilities in the Arctic region, the company announced in a statement.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) won a $299 million contract to continue supporting the Pentagon's network infrastructure, the company announced in a statement.

ROME, Italy. Thales won a contract to begin the serial production of seven additional sections of the SAMP/T New Generation (NG) air defense system for the French Air and Space Forces, the company announced in a statement.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California. Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Raider program is advancing through its flight test campaign and entering production, the company announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. RF specialists CRFS announced that the company won the Army Technology Award 2024 for designing the RFeye Node 100-18 LW, a lightweight RF sensor aimed at use in uncrewed aerial systems (UASs), that weighs in at just 2 kg (4.4 pounds).