PALM BAY, Fla. Defense communications company Reticulate Micro announced that it successfully streamed live video over a UHF TACSAT radio link in a demonstration for the U.S. Army, in what the company says is a first for the industry. 

DALLAS, Texas. Lockheed Martin won a $219 million contract to increase production of the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) for the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

YORK, Pennsylvania. BAE Systems has delivered an Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) Turreted Mortar prototype to the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

EL SEGUNDO, California. Boeing won a $440 million contract to construct the 12th Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) communications satellite for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command, the company announced in a statement.

BOCA RATON, Florida. Terran Orbital Corporation won a $15.2 million contract to deliver Ambassador Class satellite platforms to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the company announced in a statement.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. A team of researchers at the University of Florida (UF) report they have made a wireless communication breakthrough by using semiconductor technology to produce 3D processors, which they say can vastly improve the way large amounts of data are transmitted across the globe and could basically reshape the current wireless-communication arena.

MADRID, Spain. EDGE Group and Indra Sistemas (Indra) will create a joint venture (JV) to develop and manufacture next-generation radar systems in the United Arab Emirates, the companies announced in a statement.

OBERKOCHEN, Germany. Hensoldt sold 54 units of its all-round vision system, SETAS (See Through Armour System), to KNDS in Germany for integration into the RCH 155 self-propelled artillery gun, the company announced in a statement.

ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland. Kraken Robotics Inc. entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) to develop Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) sensor technologies and signal processing techniques, the company announced in a statement.

DUBLIN. Global revenue for the military simulation, modeling, and virtual training market in terms of value -- standing at $14.2 billion so far in 2024 -- is expected to show strong revenue growth through to 2034, according to a report from Research and Markets, "Military Simulation, Modelling and Virtual Training Market Report 2024-2034."

ANDOVER, Massachusetts. Mercury Systems won a five-year, $243.8 million contract with the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division to provide electronic warfare combat training subsystems that are reprogrammable, the company announced in a statement.

BLACKSBURG, Va. High-reliability power conversion provider VPT Inc. (a Heico company) launched its new VSC100-2800S DC-DC converter, a new entrant in its VSC Series of space COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] DC-DC converters designed for use in the so-called New Space market.  

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a contract worth $3.4 billion to start work on 14 P-8A Poseidon aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force and three additional P-8s for the German Navy.

GERMANTOWN, Md. Hughes Network Systems (an EchoStar company) announced that it won a contract with SES Space & Defense to provide a flexible, software-defined, multi-orbit, auto-PACE [primary, alternate, contingency and emergency] solution and associated modems in support of SES Space & Defense's and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet (DEUCSI) program.

Intel official announced that the company is spinning off their nProgram Solutions Group (PSG) as a standalone company, named Altera, the group’s original name when first acquired by intel in 2015. Altera’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices are key components in military sensor and signal procession applications like radar, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, and others.