ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS won another contract to provide its Quantum Cascade Laser (QCL) technology, which will be incorporated into the Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) systems for U.S. military aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Defense industry and government experts discuss the challenges of certifying modular systems with open standard interfaces to meet airworthiness and security requirements on the "How can MOSA better support certification of safety- and security-critical systems?" panel at the MOSA Industry and Government Summit and Expo on June 17 at 3 pm EDT at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

HORSHAM, England. Chess Dynamics and SEA, both part of the Cohort Group, are developing a trainable decoy launcher system -- known as Ancilia -- for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) under the Maritime Electronic Warfare Programme (MEWP) in an effort to enhance the Royal Navy’s defense against advanced threats like hypersonic and ballistic missiles, the company says.

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, with encouragement to service members to initially experiment with using the AI tool for routine tasks including producing reports, assisting with IT issues, and computer coding.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). RF and microwave component provider SV Microwave will be showing its SOSA and VITA aligned suite of products at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

WIXOM, Michigan. Acromag introduced the VPX7600, a new SOSA aligned 3U VPX single board computer (SBC) that leverages Intel’s 11th Generation Tiger Lake-H Xeon W-11000E processor, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Escribano, Indra, and TRC formed a partnership to deliver an advanced counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) to the Spanish Armed Forces, the companies announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales won a contract from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence through the French Ministry of the Armed Forces to supply Ukraine with a second air defense system to help the nation boost its territorial security, the company announced in a statement.

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.