MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies won a $34 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to modernize the B-52 Stratofortress bomber, focusing on integrating key roles within the crew, such as merging the functions of an electronic warfare officer and a navigator into a single position, the company announced in a statement.

PHOENIX, Ariz. Spirit Electronics, an end-to-end supply-chain services company, announced that it now offers authorized distribution for ISOCOM Limited, an optoelectronics and microelectronics manufacturer based in the U.K. that serves the defense and aerospace industries.

PARIS, France. Exail's new transoceanic Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV), the DriX O-16, successfully completed its initial sea trials in a demonstration shortly after it was launched in late May, the company announced.

BERLIN, Germany. Airbus Defence and Space and Helsing will collaborate to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies aimed at enhancing the teaming of manned and unmanned military aircraft, the companies announced at the ILA aerospace trade show.

DAYTON, Ohio. Leidos completed the conceptual design review and the system requirements review for the Mayhem air-breathing hypersonic system, a project under the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the company announced in a statement.

NASHUA, N.H. BAE Systems won a $95 million U.S. Navy contract to supply advanced electronic warfare (EW) countermeasure pods to protect the P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime aircraft from missiles and other threats; the EW pods are designed to detect and counter inbound threats to protect the Poseidon and its crew plus expand the aircraft’s operating range in contested environments.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. Aitech Systems announced the M622, a fully managed 10 GbE/40 GbE Ethernet switch/router on an XMC that is designed for use in embedded and harsh-environment applications with SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) constraints.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will provide the first 12 Gray Eagle 25M (GE 25M) uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to the Army National Guard, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Fla. EIZO Rugged Solutions debuted a new high-performance embedded computing module called the Condor AGX-ORIN64-HPC, a Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) aligned 3U VPX single-board computer (SBC) based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module (SoM).

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Terma won a contract to equip four anti-submarine warfare frigates, two for the Belgian Navy and two for the Netherlands Navy, with SCANTER 6002 naval surveillance radars -- an agreement that involves collaboration with Damen Naval and RH Marine to integrate these radar systems onto the vessels, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Amphenol Printed Circuits, a Nashua, New Hampshire-based maker of mission-critical printed circuit boards, will be showing its products and tools at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

WASHINGTON. Mission-critical data protection company Star Lab Corp. (a Wind River company) announced that its Kevlar Embedded Security product will now feature data protection capabilities at-rest and runtime for Linux-based embedded systems.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Altum RF, a company based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, says that it will show its RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave semiconductors at the IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The Space Development Agency (SDA -- a unit of the U.S. Space Force) debuted its its Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) program, which aims to assemble a pool of pre-approved vendors that are eligible to compete for upcoming space and satellite demonstration projects.

MANASSAS, Va. Uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designer/manufacturer RapidFlight signed a contract worth as much as $10 million with the U.S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) AFWERX Autonomy Prime program to develop and produce a customizable, autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft system known as the SPX.