MADRID, Spain. Indra announced the acquisition of Deimos, a Spanish company specializing in space missions and satellite integration, as part of its strategic expansion in the space industry, according to an Indra statement.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. Wireless-power provider Yank Technologies won two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts with NASA to develop wireless-charging solutions for lunar and other off-Earth applications. 

MELBOURNE, Fla. The L3Harris Agile Development Group demonstrated its robotic, highly mobile, short-range air defense capability prototype at the recent Army-hosed Project Convergence Capstone 4 (PC-C4) field experiment. 

MCLEAN, Virginia. Booz Allen Hamilton won a five-year, $506 million contract to support the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team (FVL CFT) and Program Executive Office Aviation (PEO AVN) in enhancing military capabilities through technological solutions, the company announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. Growing export demand from smaller economies will fuel a $1.39 billion growth in the unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) market from 2024 through 2028 for a compound annual growth rate of 8.09%, a new report predicts.

MANASSAS, Virginia. Electra.aero demonstrated the flight capabilities of its EL-2 Goldfinch hybrid-electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) technology demonstrator aircraft at NASA's Langley Research Center, marking the first time a piloted electric aircraft has flown at the facility, the company announced in a statement.

FORT WORTH, Texas. The Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program has entered the Milestone B phase after approval by the United States Army, marking the start of its Program of Record (PoR), according to a statement from Bell Textron.

SAN DIEGO. BAE Systems has been awarded a $48 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to further advance the Insight system, an advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and resource-management system that uses machine learning (ML) and autonomy-based solutions to help analysts process massive volumes of complex data and quickly translate it into actionable intelligence.

ANDOVER, Mass.  Raytheon won a contract worth $478 million contract from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency [NSPA] to supply additional GEM-T missiles (Guidance Enhanced Missile, the Patriot Advanced Capability 2 [PAC-2] missile interceptor enhanced for defeating tactical ballistic missiles) to Germany; the contract supports the replenishment of Patriot missiles donated by Germany to Ukraine. 

AMSTERDAM. The worldwide military helicopter market, valued at more than $23.3 billion in 2019, is projected to reach $28.8 billion by 2027, with more than 66% of business coming from non-U.S. countries -- including Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa -- according to a new report from Market Forecast, "Global Military Helicopter -- Market and Technology Forecast to 2027."

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) ordered two additional MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters from Boeing, the company announced in a statement.

PALM BAY, Fla. Defense-communications provider Reticulate Micro announced that it completed shipment of its first government order for VAST, its advanced video encoding and compression platform that is built to work over virtually any network at the tactical edge.

RESTON, Va. CACI International and the U.S. Army signed a five-year task order -- valued at as much as $319 million -- under which CACI will provide intelligence systems expertise to the U.S. Army, Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), Software Engineering Center (SEC), Electronic Warfare and Sensors Directorate (IEWSD), Army Reprogramming Analysis Team-Program Office (ARAT-PO).

MCLEAN, Va. Simulation and analysis tool company DEFCON AI reports that it formally delivered its advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) tool, ARTIV, to the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command. 

WOBURN, Mass. Defense-autonomy developers Scientific Systems announced a new contract with the U.S. Army’s Humanitarian Demining Research and Development (HD R&D) Program to upgrade its Buried Object Reporting and Identification System (BORIS), which is an artificial intelligence-enabled, platform-agnostic software tool for humanitarian clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and range remediation.