– AeroVironment, Inc. and BlueHalo LLC have announced the execution of a definitive agreement under which AV will acquire BlueHalo in an all-stock transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $4.1 billion, creating a more diversified global leader in all-domain defense technologies. Continue reading
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Volz Servos to Supply Actuators for BETA Technologies Fly-By-Wire Aircraft System
– Volz Servos has signed a production agreement with BETA Technologies as an electromechanical actuator partner for the ALIA project. Continue reading
Anduril Gets $34M US Space Systems Center Surveillance Contract
– Anduril Industries Inc., Costa Mesa, California, has been awarded a $23,000,000 contract modification (P00017) to a previously awarded contract (FA8823-21-C-0002) for fielding of latticed mesh network to additional space surveillance setwork sites, implementing an unpriced change order definitization action. Continue reading
Poland Orders 52 More FlyEye UAS for $24M
On Friday, November 15, at the headquarters of the Ministry of National Defense, in the presence of Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense, and Paweł Bejda, Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defense, another implementation agreement for 13 FlyEye UAV sets for the Polish Armed Forces was signed. Continue reading
Skyfly’s eHarrier eVTOL Selected for UK Ministry of Defence Heavy-Lift UAS Supplier Framework
UK eVTOL manufacturer Skyfly has been selected to join the UK Ministry of Defence’s UASHLC (Uncrewed Air Systems Heavy Lift Capability) Framework with the eHarrier unmanned electric vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Continue reading
US Defense and Security Customers Buy 17 eBee TAC Drones
– AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc., a provider of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), sensors and software solutions for customers worldwide in the commercial and government verticals, announced that it has secured 17 new purchase orders for eBee TAC drones from U.S. defense and security customers. Continue reading
JSW Defence Invests $90M to Manufacture Shield AI’s V-BAT in India
– JSW Defence Pvt. Ltd., part of the $24 billion JSW Group and Shield AI, Inc, a U.S defense technology company, today announced a strategic partnership to indigenize and manufacture Shield AI’s V-BAT, a Group 3 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). Continue reading
D-Fend Solutions to Test C-UAS Technology with Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division
– D-Fend Solutions, a provider of field-proven radio frequency (RF) cyber-based, non-kinetic, non-jamming, counter-drone takeover technology, has announced a new agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) under its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) program. Continue reading