The Bulgarian government has approved the planned purchase of Stryker combat vehicles from U.S. company General Dynamics Land Systems for approximately $1.3 billion. At a military event on Friday, Defense Minister Todor Tagarev said following ratification by the unicameral parliament, the contract with GDLS will take effect once the country makes its initial payment. He...
The Space Development Agency has awarded QinetiQ US a five-year, $224 million systems engineering and technical assistance contract to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a low-Earth orbit satellite mesh network that will deliver secured communications and missile warning and tracking capabilities to the United States and its allies. Under the firm-fixed price contract, QinetiQ...
Serco has secured a $125 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide naval ship design and integration support for the Naval Systems Engineering and Logistics Directorate. The IT service management company will assist the directorate’s Surface Ship Design and Systems Engineering Group in executing combatant ship integration efforts to fulfill the contract’s requirements. In...
L3Harris Technologies will provide an undersea asset tracking field to the Royal Australian Navy under a $210.29 million contract from Defence Australia. The company said work on the contract, which falls under the third phase of the SEA1350 Maritime Underwater Tracking Ranges program, includes delivering undersea warfare capabilities to help Australian Defence Force assets better...
The Australian government has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to add a fourth MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system to the Royal Australian Air Force’s UAS fleet. The company said production of the three aircraft that were ordered initially is progressing as scheduled. According to Christine Zeitz, CEO and general manager of Northrop’s Australia and New...
Keysight Technologies has secured two Open Networks Ecosystem competition grants from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to develop an open radio access network intelligent controller. According to Mosaab Abughalib, senior director and general manager for Keysight’s Network Emulation Group, the project will use artificial intelligence and network security algorithms to design new...
Domo Tactical Communications has secured a contract to provide its advanced software-defined radio technology for Nordic Wing’s AsteroISR unmanned aerial vehicle system. Under the deal, DTC will integrate the SDR into AsteroISR to equip the UAV system with high-performance encryption and anti-jamming capabilities. Jonas Munster, chief security officer at Nordic Wing, said this ensures uninterrupted...
Elbit Systems will supply the Israeli Defense Forces Artillery Corps with the upgraded version of its Skylark small tactical unmanned aerial systems, one of the two Israeli drone acquisitions reported this week. The Skylark 1 tactical drone for IDF weighs up to 20 kg and is capable of vertical takeoff and landing, with the endurance...
Elbit Systems has received a $109 million contract from BAE Systems Hägglunds to deploy the Iron Fist Active Protection System for a European customer’s tracked armored Combat Vehicle 90 platform. According to Elbit, the APS features low volume, weight and power requirements and offers 360-degree protection in open terrain and urban environments. Its sensor employs...
Australia’s federal government will continue to purchase flood and bushfire data from natural catastrophe services company Iceye. Under the agreement with Iceye, the federal government, states and territories can access the Finland-based company’s Flood Insights and Bushfire Insights products, to be made available to agencies via Esri’s ArcGIS software. Using a combination of synthetic aperture...
