MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies won a contract from Millennium Space Systems to build eight electro-optical infrared payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Fire-control On Orbit-support-to-the-war Fighter (FOO Fighter) program, the company announced in a statement.

SOF WEEK 2024 -- TAMPA, Fla. Uncrewed-system developer Origin UAV announced the delivery of its first system to NATO member countries: Set to be on display from May 6-9 at the SOF Week exhibition, in Tampa, the Origin UAV Beak is a man-portable ISR [intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance] uncrewed aerial system (UAS) with precision bomb-drop capability.

SOF WEEK 2024 --TAMPA, Fla. SOF Week, a national convention dedicated to Special Operations Forces (SOF), is slated to return to Tampa May 6-10, with special focus this year on international attendance, new technology for the warfighter, and discussions about the future of SOF. 

TAMPA, Florida. Shift5 will showcase advanced GPS spoofing detection technology at the upcoming SOF Week show in response to rising GPS spoofing incidents in modern warfare that mislead systems about their true location, Shift5 Chief Technology Officer Egon Rinderer says.

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) reports that it accomplished full-scale, in-water testing of the Manta Ray prototype uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) -- built by Northrop Grumman -- during February and March 2024. 

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. The U.S. Army recently announced the cancellation of the Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool (EWPMT) task order competition under the RS3 Enterprise contract, a decision officials say was prompted by evolving requirements and a strategic realignment within the program.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. Boeing won a $178 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the production of seven additional MH-139A helicopters, along with sustainment and training support, which increases the total number of MH-139A aircraft ordered by the Air Force to 26, the company announced in a statement.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won a contract to supply its "Red Sky" Tactical Very Short-range Air Defense (VSHORAD) System to an international customer in a $50 million deal to provide two of the batteries over the next two years, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Qinetiq conducted the UK's inaugural Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming trial, demonstrating direct cooperation between a manned jet and an autonomous drone, the company announced in a statement.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates. Saab delivered a fourth GlobalEye Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) aircraft to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on April 18 as part of an effort to expand the UAE's capabilities in aerial surveillance and threat detection, the company announced in a statement.

LA DÉFENSE, Paris. The European Commission signed a Grant Agreement for the launch of the STORE [Shared daTabase for Optronics image Recognition and Evaluation] collaborative research project, to be coordinated by Thales and funded by the EDF (European Defense Fund).

WILMINGTON, Del. Second Front Systems (2F), a public-benefit software company that facilitates the delivery of mission-critical software solutions, announced that Learn to Win training software is now available for use by U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 6 (IL6, classified level) through 2F's Game Warden DevSecOps platform and secure cloud hosting environment. 

ALPHARETTA, Ga. Energy-storage provider Stryten Energy reports that it received a contract award from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Family of Advanced Standard Batteries (FAStBat) project to develop and evaluate a prototype 6T lithium-ion battery and potentially extend the technology to other cross-service platforms.

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Autonomy/autopilot company ModalAI is highlighting its updated and NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] regulation-compliant versions of its VOXL 2 development uncrewed aerial system (UAS).

XPONENTIAL 2024 -- SAN DIEGO. Cybersecurity solution provider Mobilicom is showing its line of integrated hardware and software solutions for use by uncrewed aerial system (UAS) and robotics operators and platform manufacturers at this week's AUVSI XPONENTIAL trade show.