KIELCE, Poland. Poland's minister of national defense approved a Letter of Acceptance with the U.S. Army to expand its WISŁA medium-range air and missile defense capabilities with the introduction of 12 Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensors (LTAMDS) plus 48 Patriot launchers, making the Foreign Military Sale the first international customer to add the advanced 360-degree LTAMDS radar built by Raytheon (an RTX business) to its air and missile defense architecture.

LONDON. Saab is set to introduce at DSEI -- held in London September 12-15 -- its Future Operator Workspace, what it calls an immersive, intuitive user platform concept for superior management of critical systems in all battle situations. 

Technology provider CIRCOR International (Burlington, Massachusetts) and its brand, Hale Hamilton, will share a joint exhibition stand at next week's DSEI 2023 (held September 12-15) where the companies will showcase a number of their flow-control products and services tailored to meet defense and security users’ diverse needs.. 

ENDICOTT, N.Y. BAE Systems reports that its new vehicle-management computer (VMC) has been successfully flight-tested on the F-35 Lightning II stealth combat aircraft, with the trial demonstrating a technology upgrade for all three F-35 variants that is aimed at boosting computer performance and addressing obsolescence issues.

WOBURN, Mass. and COLCHESTER, U.K. Embedded-computing company Concurrent Technologies announced its acquisition of rugged-computing company Phillips Aerospace, in a deal valued at approximately $3.38 million.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Saab has introduced a new deployment set for its Giraffe 1X radar system that aims to enhance the radar's portability and speed of setup—particularly in dynamic battlefields and areas facing multidirectional air threats—and will showcase it at the Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2023 event in London, England, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. HENSOLDT will display a range of sensor technologies for air, sea, and land platforms at the upcoming DSEi 2023 in London, the company announced in a statement.

CHANDLER, Ariz. Embedded solution provider Microchip Technology reports that the U.K. government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has "successfully reviewed" the security of its communications, industrial, aerospace, defense, nuclear, and other systems that rely on Microchip Technology’s PolarFire FPGAs [field-programmable gate arrays].

RESTON, Virginia. Raft LLC, a digital consulting firm specializing in national security engineering, has won a prime contract to build a software factory for the Air Force's Cyber Operations, the company announced in a statement.

PARDUBICE, Czech Republic. Hensoldt and ERA, which produce Air Traffic Control and passive surveillance systems, have formed a strategic partnership to advance air surveillance and defense technology on behalf of the German Luftwaffe, according to a joint statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Raytheon has received funding to further the development and testing of its medium-range GhostEye MR radar, aimed at improving the capabilities of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), according to a company statement.

BOSTON, Massachusetts. Teledyne FLIR Defense has signed a contract with Norway's Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to provide mobile counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) platforms to Ukraine, Teledyne announced in a statement.

ASHBURN, Va. Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions introduced the CHAMP-XD4 (VPX6-485) and the CHAMP-FX7 engines, among the initial members of the company's new Fabric100 class of SOSA aligned system elements, for use in compute-intensive defense, aerospace, and industrial applications.

PARINTINS, Brazil. The M200 Vigilante radar system recently underwent its first operational test at Júlio Belém Airport in Parintins on a KC-390 aircraft from the Brazilian Air Force, according to an Embraer statement.

SLINFOLD, U.K. Electrical/electronics/optical distributor Lane Electronics announced that it will be welcoming visitors at DSEI 2023 [Defence and Security Equipment International trade show] where it will display its latest connector innovations and demonstrating its U.K.-based assembling and value-add services.