RTX business Raytheon has received a $126.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce and deliver Stinger missiles. Under the agreement, Raytheon will also provide ancillary equipment and support services to help the Army operate the man-portable anti-aircraft weapons, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The Army Contracting Command solicited the opportunity online and ..read more

HII has appointed Nanda Ramanujam, a technology and strategy executive in the aerospace and defense industry, as vice president of strategic technology initiatives and artificial intelligence operations. Ramanujam announced his new position at the engineering and defense technology company in a LinkedIn post published Thursday. In this capacity, the newly appointed VP oversees strategic partnerships ..read more

Ultra Intelligence & Communications has secured a contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to support the Program Executive Officer Land Systems. The $39 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is a recompete for the Marine Corps’ Common Aviation Command and Control System, the Autin, Texas-headquartered company said Thursday. Ultra I&C will supply its ADSI command and control gateway ..read more

Anduril Industries estimates that its Autonomous Surveillance Towers, or ASTs, now cover 30 percent of the 100-kilometer U.S. southern land border. The company cited the estimate as it announced on Thursday the deployment of the 300th Anduril AST to support the homeland security functions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Anduril’s sentry tower offerings, including ..read more

The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a follow-on contract to produce and deliver the next generation of an electronic warfare tool designed to counter improvised explosive devices and hostile unmanned aircraft systems. The JCREW/DRAKE 2.0 tool combines the Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare counter-IED system and the Drone Restricted Access Using ..read more

Portal26 and Carahsoft Technology are partnering to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning risk services to the public sector. Carahsoft said Thursday it will be the Master Government Aggregator for Portal26 and distribute its Trust, Risk and Security Management platform to government agencies. Under the collaboration, Portal26’s AI TRiSM platform will be available through Carahsoft’s reseller partners ..read more

HawkEye 360 has secured a contract extension and a $2.5 million task order from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to continue providing radio frequency mapping support and other services. The six-month extension is a third option year for the Radio Frequency Emitter Data contract while the task order covers emerging commercial analytics services, the company specializing in ..read more

A request by Iridium to make extending the functionality of narrowband internet of things for non-terrestrial networks an official part of the Work Plan for 3GPP Release 19 — set for completion by the fourth quarter of 2025 — has been approved by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project. Iridium said Wednesday that the approval will ..read more

Agile Space Industries announced the completion of a fully subscribed financing round led by Lockheed Martin Ventures, which had participated in the company’s seed round in 2023. Chris Moran, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Ventures, said in a press statement Thursday, “Our continued investment in Agile demonstrates our dedication to accelerating groundbreaking ..read more

CACI International has secured a five-year task order worth up to $314 million from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services and technology to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Under the NUWC Engineering and Modernization Operations program, CACI will train sailors to provide integration support, logistics, project management, cyber capabilities and analysis, the company said Tuesday ..read more