WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Commerce finalized two separate awards under the CHIPS and Science Act's Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial Fabrication Facilities: The Commerce Dept. awarded BAE Systems Electronic Systems (a business unit of BAE Systems) as much as $35.5 million in direct funding and awarded Rocket Lab (the parent company of space power provider SolAero Technologies Corp.) as much as $23.9 million in direct funding.

KONGSBERG, Norway. Kongsberg signed a NOK 12 billion contract with the Netherlands for the delivery of NASAMS (National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System) and NOMADS (National Manoeuvre Air Defence System) as part of the country's CITADEL air and missile defense program, the company announced in a statement.

PASADENA, Calif. Artificial intelligence (AI) decision intelligence company Virtualitics announced the renewal of its Automated Master Storage Planning (A-MSP) operational deployment contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) as part of a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award. 

EL SEGUNDO, California. Anduril Industries won a $99.7 million contract and a five-year program of record designation by U.S. Space Systems Command to provide its Lattice platform for modernizing the U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN), the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) chose Anduril Industries to deliver mission autonomy software for coordinating uncrewed and autonomous systems under its Autonomous Collaborative Teaming (ACT) contract, the company announced in a statement.

MILAN, Italy. Teledyne FLIR Defense will deliver UltraFORCE 380X-HDc multi-spectral imaging systems to NL EASP AIR for installation on three Dornier DO328-110 aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

DENVER, Colo. Hughes Network Systems (an EchoStar Corp. subsidiary) won a $6.5 million contract to deploy a 5G open radio access network (ORAN) prototype at U.S. Army post Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas that will feature a RAN intelligent ccontroller (RIC) aimed at enabling the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to test RIC-based software applications for military networks.

IRVINE, California. Anduril Industries won a $200 million, five-year contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to develop and deliver a Counter Uncrewed Aerial System (CUAS) Engagement System (CES) for the Marine Air Defense Integrated System (MADIS), the company announced in a statement.

AUSTIN, Texas. BAE Systems won a follow-on contract from the U.S. Army to further develop its Multi-Class Soft Kill System (MCSKS) countermeasures, which aim to enhance the survivability of ground combat vehicles against guided missiles and nearby threats, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed the final qualification test for its 200-horsepower Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) 2.0 at the company's El Mirage, California, flight facility, the company announced in a statement.

DONAUWÖRTH, Germany. Airbus Helicopters delivered the first of up to 82 H145M helicopters to the German Armed Forces less than a year after signing the contract, the company announced in a statement.

HUNT VALLEY, Maryland. Textron Systems won a task order worth up to $47 million from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to provide contractor-owned/contractor-operated (COCO) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) services for three additional Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), the company announced in a statement.

LISBON, Portugal. Thales won a contract with the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to supply the ForceShield air defense system to the Portuguese Army, the company announced in a statement.

LOWELL, Massachusetts. MACOM Technology Solutions acquired ENGIN-IC, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in Gallium Nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) and integrated microwave assemblies, MACOM announced in a statement.

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan. Neousys Technology, a provider of rugged embedded systems, announced that its SEMIL industrial computer has been integrated into one of its user's data-logging defense vehicles and will be used to collect, process, and analyze critical real-time data in order to enhance military operations.