BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin announced a $50 million investment in Saildrone to accelerate development of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) equipped with military payloads and command-and-control systems, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. X-Bow Systems reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin’s Astris AI subsidiary to deploy the Astris AI Factory, a secure artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to enhance digital manufacturing operations for defense applications, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions is developing the Condor Thor 3U VPX series, a new line of rugged, single-board computers (SBCs) powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform and aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Saab won a $46 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver Giraffe 1X radar systems in support of U.S. security cooperation partners, the company announced in a statement.

PUTZBRUNN, Germany. Materials-engineering company W.L. Gore & Associates introduced its "High Speed Data Cables for Ultralight Solutions" product line, which it says weighs 50% less than many industry-standard high-speed data cables.  

AURORA, Ontario. Wolf Advanced Technology announced the development of a new family of rugged, SOSA aligned computing solutions -- which it says are accelerated by the NVIDIA IGX Thor platform -- that are designed to deliver data-center-class artificial intelligence (AI) performance at the tactical edge

LONDON, United Kingdom. The United Kingdom government announced a £5.4 billion agreement with the Republic of Türkiye for the sale of 20 Typhoon fighter aircraft, along with an associated weapons and integration package, according to a BAE Systems statement.

ULM, Germany. The Eurofighter Common Radar System Mark 1 (ECRS Mk1) will be integrated into the 20 new Eurofighter Tranche 5 aircraft ordered by the German Air Force, under a contract signed between the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA) and Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH, the companies announced in a statement.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland. The U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR Center has released updated documentation for several key Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) standards, marking a step toward greater interoperability and modularity across the service’s communications and electronic warfare systems, according to a special notice posted on SAM.gov earlier this month.

GETAFE, Spain. The SpainSat NG-II satellite, built by Airbus for secure government and military communications, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the company announced in a statement.

SEOUL, South Korea. Hyundai Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. artificial intelligence company Shield AI to jointly develop AI-based multipurpose drone operation technology for defense applications, the company announced in a statement.

LA SPEZIA, Italy. Fincantieri unveiled its first integrated underwater drone system, named DEEP, during a demonstration mission at the Naval Support and Experimentation Center in La Spezia, the company announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. HENSOLDT supported the live-fire testing of the German Navy’s frigate Baden-Württemberg using its non-rotating TRS-4D naval radar integrated with Diehl Defence’s IRIS-T SLM air defense system, the company announced in a statement.

BEDFORD, United Kingdom. Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) announced that three Airlander 10 aircraft have been reserved for defense use, marking the first military reservations for the platform, the company announced in a statement.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts. Mercury Systems won a multi-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee development contract to create a multi-mission, multi-domain subsystem for a U.S. defense prime contractor, the company announced in a statement.