WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced that $238 million in funding from the “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act” (known as the CHIPS Act) will be divided between eight Microelectronics Commons so-called regional innovation hubs this year, marking the largest fund allocation to date under the U.S. government's CHIPS Act.

MUNICH. Sensor solutions company Hensoldt will equip the U.S. Coast Guard's “Legend” class National Security Cutter (NSC) ship with its TRS-3D multimode naval radar, under a follow-on contract worth approximately 10 million euros ($10.6 million). 

THE NETHERLANDS. NATO's Counter Unmanned Aircraft System Technical Interoperability Exercise (C-UAS TIE23) took place Sept. 12-22 and included more than 300 participants from 15 Allied and three partner nations, the European Union, and the private sector, according to a NATO statement.

WIRRAL, United Kingdom. LDRA and Frontgrade Gaisler have announced a partnership to further software development for critical systems, the companies announced in a statement.

RESTON, Virginia. Leidos has won a prime contract to offer combined joint all-domain command and control (CJADC2) analysis and support to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Staff J6 Joint Assessment Division (JAD), the company announced in a statement.

CANBERRA, Australia. Northrop Grumman will produce one more MQ-4C Triton multi-intelligence uncrewed aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), bringing the total Australian fleet size to four, according to a company statement.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. Red Cat Holdings' subsidiary, Teal Drones, has won a contract to supply 106 Teal 2 drone systems to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for use by the U.S. Border Patrol, according to a company statement.

PHOENIX, Arizona. DDC-I has finalized multicore DO-178C verification to Design Assurance Level A (DAL A) for its Deos real-time operating system (RTOS) on ARM and PowerPC processors, the company announced in a statement.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems Ltd. has won a $95 million contract to provide its SkyStriker loitering munitions to an unnamed European country, according to a company statement.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has secured all initial task orders on the Department of the Air Force's Security Support Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract worth $4.5 billion, according to a company statement.

TAMPA, Florida. Core Avionics & Industrial Inc., commonly known as CoreAVI, recently announced the release of Dynamic Temperature Range (DTR) screened versions of the 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, aiming to serve military, aerospace, and other high-reliability markets, the company announced in a statement. The company will offer these processors with thermal throttling disabled to ensure consistent, deterministic behavior, the statement reads.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Rebellion Defense has won a contract to provide automated penetration testing to systems and applications of the Army Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T), the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Babcock has entered into an enterprise agreement with Palantir Technologies UK to bolster its data capabilities in the defense sector, according to a statement from both companies.

LONDON, England. Artificial intelligence was unsurprisingly a hot topic of conversation at this year's Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) event, but specifically the areas of data analytics and autonomous systems appeared to show the heaviest promise of AI usage for global militaries.

LONDON, England. NI will feature its latest products and solutions at the upcoming DSEI event in London, focusing on software-defined radio products, with options aligned to OpenCPI and OpenVPX standards, as well as its new T&E Scenario Generator demonstrator, according to a company statement.