SOUTH BEND, Indiana. AM General is set to present its next light tactical vehicle, the HUMVEE Saber, during the Defence Security and Equipment International (DSEI) tradeshow at the ExCel London Exhibition Centre this week, where it will showcase its counter-drone and remote weapons systems, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON. SDK Embedded Systems (Ashkelon, Israel) -- a designer and manufacturer of rugged military-grade solutions -- will be showing its products at this week's Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition, which will run from September 12-15. 

LONDON. Thales announced that its lightweight multirole missile (LMM) will be on display at the upcoming Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London, which will run from September 12-15. 

KYIV, Ukraine. BAE Systems, during a recent meeting in Kyiv, proclaimed the establishment of a local legal entity and the signing of agreements with the Ukrainian Government, the company announced in a statement.

GREENVILLE, South Carolina. Lockheed Martin revealed the Slovak Republic's first F-16 Block 70 aircraft at its facility in Greenville, South Carolina, in the presence of the country's Minister of Defence, Martin Sklenár, the company announced in a statement.

KIELCE, Poland. Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) and the Javelin Joint Venture (JJV) — a collaboration between Raytheon and Lockheed Martin — have initiated an agreement for the potential production of the Javelin anti-tank weapon system on Polish soil, according to a recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).

PARIS, France. The eurosam joint venture -- which is backed by the shareholders MBDA France, MBDA Italia and Thales -- is in the process of developing a new generation of long-range surface-to-air systems based on ASTER missiles, namely the SAMP/T NG ground system and the ASTER B1NT missile, with a new management team in place, the company announced in a statement.

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BASE, Portsmouth, U.K. A team made up of personnel from QinetiQ, Inzpire, and BAE Systems delivered a demonstration under Phase 2 of the Platform Enabled Training Capability (PETC) to the U.K. royal navy, under which the team connected simultaneously into three platforms docked at the naval base via satellite communications and enabled the crews of the ships to conduct realistic training against a peer adversary. 

LONDON. U.K. naval warships and RAF [Royal Air Force] patrol aircraft tracked a series of Russian vessels in waters close to the U.K. recently in what the British navy termed a "a concerted monitoring operation."

SAN DIEGO. Saab reports that it acquired artificial intelligence (AI) company CrowdAI (San Francisco, California) in a move intended to expand its holdings in AI and machine learning (ML). 

LONDON. High-performance embedded computing provider DFI will be making its initial appearance at the upcoming Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London, which will run from September 12-15. 

KIELCE, Poland. Poland's minister of national defense approved a Letter of Acceptance with the U.S. Army to expand its WISŁA medium-range air and missile defense capabilities with the introduction of 12 Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensors (LTAMDS) plus 48 Patriot launchers, making the Foreign Military Sale the first international customer to add the advanced 360-degree LTAMDS radar built by Raytheon (an RTX business) to its air and missile defense architecture.

LONDON. Saab is set to introduce at DSEI -- held in London September 12-15 -- its Future Operator Workspace, what it calls an immersive, intuitive user platform concept for superior management of critical systems in all battle situations. 

Technology provider CIRCOR International (Burlington, Massachusetts) and its brand, Hale Hamilton, will share a joint exhibition stand at next week's DSEI 2023 (held September 12-15) where the companies will showcase a number of their flow-control products and services tailored to meet defense and security users’ diverse needs.. 

ENDICOTT, N.Y. BAE Systems reports that its new vehicle-management computer (VMC) has been successfully flight-tested on the F-35 Lightning II stealth combat aircraft, with the trial demonstrating a technology upgrade for all three F-35 variants that is aimed at boosting computer performance and addressing obsolescence issues.