BONN, Germany. Rheinmetall won a contract from the Bundeswehr to supply the Distributed Naval Training Architecture (VTAM), a networked simulation-based operational training system for the German Navy, the company announced in a statement.

BOSTON, Massachusetts. Teledyne FLIR Defense’s Black Hornet 4 Personal Reconnaissance System won a spot on the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Blue UAS Refresh program, the company announced in a statement.

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon (an RTX business) announced completion of 10 successful subsystem demonstrations for the U.S. Army's Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor (NGSRI), a new short-range missile that is expected to eventually replace the decades-old Stinger surface-to-air missile.

MCLEAN, Virginia. BAE Systems has been awarded a five-year, $251 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical support for the U.S. Navy’s AEGIS Combat System, the company announced in a statement.

ONTARIO, Canada. Pixus Technologies introduced a new C5ISR Modular Suite of Standards, or CMOSS, and Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard aligned development backplane designed to support a range of I/O intensive and compute-intensive applications, the company announced in a statement.

ELMHURST, Ill. The global market for uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) -- commonly referred to as drones -- is  estimated to grow by $36.1 billion from 2024-2028, according to a report from Technavio, "Drone Market Analysis APAC, North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, South America -- China, US, Germany, Japan, UK - Size and Forecast 2024-2028."

ULM, Germany. Hensoldt won a contract extension worth approximately 350 million euros for further development of the Eurofighter Mk1 radar, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS won a contract of more than $7 million to supply and integrate C4I Battle Management System (BMS) hardware and software into the Royal Thailand Army’s newly acquired Stryker combat vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

CEDAR PARK, Tex. Space-launch services provider Firefly Aerospace announced that the company won a $21.81 million contract to launch the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) VICTUS SOL Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Helsing will manufacture 6,000 HX-2 strike drones for Ukraine, following a previous delivery of 4,000 HF-1 drones produced in partnership with Ukrainian industry, the company announced in a statement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) ordered 17 CH-47JA Block II Chinook Extended Range helicopters to modernize its fleet, with production to be carried out jointly by Boeing and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), Boeing announced in a statement.

DENVER, Colo. Boom Supersonic announced that it had achieved what it called "Boomless Cruise" with its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, as it strives to enable supersonic travel over land without an audible sonic boom.

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.  Northrop Grumman Corp. is modernizing the U.S. Navy’s airborne navigation capabilities with the implementation of the LN-251M, the next-generation upgrade of the LN-251 inertial navigation system/Global Positioning System (INS/GPS), which leverages M-Code technology.

REDMOND, Washington. Anduril Industries and Microsoft expanded their partnership to support the next phase of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, with Anduril taking on oversight of production, future hardware and software development, and delivery timelines, the companies announced in a statement.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico. Raytheon’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) detected and tracked a high-speed cruise missile and guided a Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T) to intercept the target in a live-fire test, the company announced in a statement.