LONDON, England. Airbus Defence and Space and Rohde & Schwarz signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as part of an effort to enhance communication capabilities for the Royal Navy, the companies announced in a statement.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Exail has secured a contract with Precision Technic Defence A/S to provide its Advans Vega Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for use in mobile surveillance systems by the land forces of a Northern European country, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense will provide an encrypted Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) upgrade for U.S. Air Force (USAF) aircraft under a production order from the Air Force.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT -- a business unit of General Dynamics) -- announced its acquisition of Iron EagleX, Inc. (IEX), a company that provides artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), cyber, software development, and cloud services for the U.S. military Special Operations Forces and the intelligence community.

TOKYO, Japan. Teledyne FLIR Defense will deliver its Star SAFIRE 380-HLD multi-spectral imaging systems to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) as part of a contract worth up to $20.8 million, the company announced in a statement.

MARIGNANE, France. Airbus Helicopters won a contract to deliver 12 H225M multi-role helicopters to the Republic of Iraq, the company announced in a statement. The Iraqi Army Aviation command will operate the helicopters, replacing its aging fleet of Mi-17s.

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) E-2/C-2 Airborne Command & Control Systems Program Office (PMA-231) awarded a $16 million contract to defense software company Fuse Integration to produce and install Fuse CORE 4.0 virtualized network systems for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.

VIENNA, Austria. Schiebel’s Camcopter S-100 received the first-ever Design Verification Report (DVR) for a Rotary Wing Unmanned Air System (RWUAS) from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the company announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) recently tested a new compact radar system from Hensoldt designed to monitor uncontrolled airspace, the company announced in a statement.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Connectivity engineering firm Applied Dynamics International (ADI) announced that it successfully completed its project to modernize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite-emulator systems, an effort ADI says uses an open-architecture framework based on the modular open systems approach (MOSA) principles.

FARNBOROUGH, England. BAE Systems acquired Kirintec, a U.K.-based company specializing in cyber and electromagnetic activities (CEMA) and counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) technologies, the company announced in a statement.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina. Honeywell completed its $1.9 billion acquisition of CAES Systems Holdings LLC (CAES) from Advent International, the company announced in a statement.

FAIRFAX, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) won a $491.6 million contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) to support the Ground Management and Integration (GMI) program, the company announced in a statement.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois. Northrop Grumman’s AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) completed U.S. Air Force testing at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Sensors (J-PRIMES) facility, the company announced in a statement.

SAN FRANCISCO. The global market for military uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) or drones, measured at $36.14 billion in 2024, is expected to grow at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.8% to 2030, according to a study from Grand View Research, "Military Drone Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Type (Fixed-wing, Rotary Blade, Hybrid), By Operation Mode, By Range, By Application, By Region, And Segment Forecasts, 2024 - 2030."