HOUSTON. Hughes Network Systems reports that it will collaborate with Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies Inc (EACOWT) -- operating in combination as a wholly owned independent U.S. proxy company and subsidiary of Eutelsat Group -- to develop an enterprise-grade OneWeb capable low-Earth orbit (LEO) modem transceiver circuit card assembly (CCA) intended to support EACOWT’s contract with L3Harris Technologies for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) Call 003 program.

MUNICH. Safety-critical embedded software company TASKING announced that it acquired LDRA (Wirral, U.K.), a provider of software tools for code analysis and software testing for safety-, mission-, security-, and business-critical markets.  

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won contracts totaling approximately $100 million to provide a Joint National Digital Fire Command Center (JNDFC) for a European country, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a contract from the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) to supply its JUMP 20 medium uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) to the Danish Armed Forces, the company announced in a statement. The contract, valued at up to $181 million, will span 10 years as part of Denmark’s tactical UAS program of record.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Airbus won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to design and build two Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites under the Oberon program, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales delivered the first serial production autonomous drone system for mine countermeasures to the French Navy under the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program, the company announced in a statement.

OSLO, Norway. Patria delivered new SONAC ACS acoustic minesweeping systems to the Royal Norwegian Navy recently, which began operating the system last spring, the company announced in a statement.

BREDA, Netherlands. Pilatus will supply the PC-7 MKX training system to the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the company announced in a statement.

LONG BEACH, Calif. Space and satellite component company Rocket Lab reported a successful launch of a mission to deploy five satellites to low Earth orbit for French Internet of Things (IoT) constellation operator Kinéis.

BONN, Germany. The Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support of the Bundeswehr (BAAINBw) signed a framework contract with Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH for the procurement of additional Infantry Soldier of the Future – Enhanced System (IdZ-ES) units, the company announced in a statement.

CANNES, France. Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with NIBE Space to supply a high-resolution optical satellite, marking the first step in NIBE’s Earth observation constellation project, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched what it named the Intensity-Squeezed Photonic Integration for Revolutionary Detectors (INSPIRED) program that has as its goal to develop compact, cost-effective optical detectors that can operate at unprecedented sensitivities, enabling optical signals previously buried in quantum noise to be clearly detected.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. A NATO country placed an order for Saab’s 9AIR C4I air command and control system in a contract valued at approximately 250 million Swedish kronor (MSEK), the company announced in a statement.

SCHLESWIG, Germany. A German Heron TP drone conducted a test flight in both military- and civilian-controlled airspace between Germany and the Netherlands, marking progress toward integrating remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) into general air traffic, the European Defence Agency (EDA) announced in a statement.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. Lockheed Martin -- together with partners Intel Corp. and Radisys Corp. -- conducted demonstrations showcasing 5G capabilities during the "Steel Knight" U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) exercise during December 2024.