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The U.S. Navy has awarded Ursa Major a $10 million development contract to advance the company's MK 104 design through critical design review and static fire. "With this contract, we're expanding our partnership with the U.S. Navy to build a faster, more resilient, and more innovative solid rocket motor supply base. Ursa Major's MK 104 solution is designed to not only perform, but also optimize manufacturing, scale production, and deliver capability to Sailors in th

Agile Defense today announced that it has been awarded a $100 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement through the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace (TSM) to deliver its Workforce AI tool in support of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) (N&N2). The award will fund the prototyping of Force Deployed Engineering and Training (FDE&T), a novel delivery model that fuses embedded AI instruction with forward-deployed engi

Raft, a leading defense technology company, has been selected by the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to deliver a prototype Dynamic Planning & Battle Management System (DP-BMS) supporting the Kronos Family of Systems modernization effort. The Prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) award will leverage Raft's field-proven products, Raft Data Platform ([R]DP) and Raft AI Mission System ([R]AIMS), to provide operators with a unified environment for planning, coordina

Kopin Corporation a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays for defense, training, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products, today announced three major milestone achievements in its color MicroLED development program for the U.S. Government’s Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) program. These accomplishments represent significant progress toward establishing a fully U.S.‑based MicroLED manufacturing capabili

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to produce 18 Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3 (AMDT3) satellites to support the Golden Dome for America’s space-based capabilities. “L3Harris’ continued work in Indiana will deliver the next generation of space-based tracking capabilities that we need to protect the homeland and stay ahead of our adversaries,” said Sen. Jim Banks, R

L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received orders totaling $84 million in support of the U.S. Army for Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) manpack Falcon® systems. The AN/PRC-158C systems include high-throughput Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) and highly resilient waveforms for assured communications in all conditions. This is L3Harris’ second award in support of NGC2, following an initial $24 million order in October. The manpack systems will serve as part of th

nLIGHT, Inc. (NASDAQ: LASR), a leading provider of high-energy lasers for mission‑critical directed energy applications, today announced it has been selected for a Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS) Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement supporting the U.S. Department of War’s (DoW) next-generation cruise missile defense architecture. The initial award has a value of $44 million, with a total program ceiling of up to $627 million, inclusive of follow-on development, integ

Engineering Services Network, Inc. (ESN), a leading Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in engineering, maintenance, modernization, cybersecurity, and technology solutions for the Department of Defense, today announced it has been awarded a $15.9 million contract by the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office, Aircraft Carriers (PEO Carriers), Carrier Planning Activity (CPA). Under this five-year contract, ESN will deliver comprehensive life cycle ma

Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, announced today its Engineering Center of Excellence in Wolverhampton, U.K. is fully operational, advancing next-generation electric thrust reverser actuation systems (elecTRAS™). The CoE is home to a new state-of-the-art, modular and scalable test facility designed to facilitate innovation in aircraft actuation system design, testing and certification. With a more streamlined solution, elecTRAS supports the elimination of actuat

Conti Federal Services LLC, a leading federal construction and design-build firm, has been awarded a $43.9M firm-fixed-price contract for the B-21 60 Row South Environmental Protection Shelters (EPS) at Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), South Dakota. Awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Omaha District, the shelters provide protection for the B-21 Raider, extending the life of the aircraft. Conti Federal’s scope of work includes the construction of environmental pr

AeroVironment, Inc., a global defense technology leader, today announced that the German Bundeswehr, through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) under the UAS Partnership, has selected AV’s next-generation Puma™ family of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for the Luftgestützte Aufklärung mit Unbemannten Systemen (LARUS) airborne reconnaissance program. The purchase order, valued at $30.9 million, provides Germany with a comprehensive portfolio of advan

MicroTech, a leading Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing innovative technology solutions to the Federal Government, announced that it has been awarded three separate contracts on the NASA Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement VI (SEWP VI) GWAC, one in each of the contract's three award categories: Category A, Category B, and Category C, on this new $60 billion vehicle. Only 62 businesses nationwide earned awards in all three categories, placing MicroTech a

Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading supplier of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor platforms, today announced a collaboration with Givon Defense, the next-generation decentralized national security platform. The collaboration combines Givon Defense's expertise in counter-UAS systems with Innoviz's advanced LiDAR capabilities to explore new approaches for improving situational awareness and increasing the rel

Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY), and STORM have announced a partnership that will bring Teledyne FLIR’s Black Recon™ vehicle reconnaissance system to RADS™, the Rapid Adapt and Deploy System. As a RADS Application Partner, Teledyne FLIR gains a standardised route to field Black Recon across many more vehicle types, while joining STORM’s growing ecosystem of certified technology partners. The partnership was signed at Eurosa

Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, is developing a large-aperture telescope for the Lazuli Space Observatory, part of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System at Schmidt Sciences. Building on its work in adaptive telescope architectures, ultra-lightweight materials and digital engineering, Raytheon will deliver the largest unobscured aperture ever launched on a commercial platform. The telescope's 3.1meter off-axis aperture—the diameter of its primary light collec