Defense Budgets & Procurement

The core objective of the constellation is to provide the MoD with persistent imagery intelligence to strengthen Japan’s defense posture ...

The fight over the Space Development Agency's (SDA) budget was actually a proxy war between two acquisition philosophies: the SDA's open shop vs. a classified sole source alternative ...

PARIS — The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has awarded Airbus Defence and Space a framework contract valued at €50 million to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into the French Armed Forces' critical weapon and information systems. The agreement, which also ...

VIENNA, Va — Specialty Systems, Inc. (SSI), a subsidiary of Castellum, Inc., has received a contract valued at $66.2 million from the U.S. Navy to support the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD). Supporting the SHIELD Portfolio Under this ...

Parsons Corporation (NYSE: PSN) has been awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order valued at $88 million by the U.S. Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA). Under this agreement, Parsons will provide requirements analysis, design, integration, and testing for ...

Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has received a five-year contract extension with the Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) Telecommunications Program Office. Under this contract extension within the company’s Defense and Advanced Technologies segment, Viasat will continue providing managed connectivity services for ...

iGov has been awarded a position on the U.S. Special Operations Command’s next-generation Targeted Requirement Execution (TREX) contract—this $2.39 billion, multi-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) program supports USSOCOM worldwide operations from the organization's MacDill Air Force Base headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The ...

Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR) has received an $8.2 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RV) to develop next-generation nuclear power systems for spacecraft and lunar infrastructure. Intuitive Machines is using the funding ...

SD Government (SDG), the division of Gogo (NASDAQ: GOGO) that provides SATCOM to global governments, has received a five-year, federal contract to deliver multi-band, multi-orbit, airborne global satellite communications to a U.S. government agency. The new agreement, initially valued at ...

Vantor will be supporting U.S. Space Force (USSF) in tracking high-interest objects that pass through "blind spots" in space that are not visible to ground sensor networks. Under the contract, which will support the USSF's Joint Commercial Operations program, Vantor ...

Kepler Communications has been awarded a multi-year contract from Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) to demonstrate real-time data sharing and connectivity for Continental Defence, including the Canadian Arctic. The initiative will conduct research and analysis to support the development ...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT)has announced that Gilat DataPath has received orders of more than $7 million to provide additional Transportable SATCOM Terminals to the U.S. Army through a prime contractor. The orders include multiple units of ...

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW) has announced that the firm's wholly owned subsidiary, Edge Autonomy, has been awarded a contract from an undisclosed European NATO country to deliver its Edge Autonomy Stalker Group 2 fixed wing uncrewed aerial system (UAS) to ...

Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) has a new production agreement with AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (NASDAQ: AVAV) to support the U.S. Space Force’s Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program. AV was awarded the $1.4 billion SCAR contract in 2022 by the ...

SES’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SES Space & Defense, has been awarded a five-year Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract, to provide the U.S. Army with COMSATCOM services. Under the $89.6 million agreement, the initiative will support strategic long-haul network transport and base-support ...

MDA Space Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has been awarded two contracts to equip the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN)’s Halifax-class ships with up to six new Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS). Part of the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (ISTAR ...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT) has announced that its defense division, Gilat Defense, has been awarded a contract valued at more than $8 million by Israel’s Ministry of Defense for the delivery and integration of satellite communication ...

Artistic rendition of the Protected Tactical SATCOM payload will use the protected tactical waveform to provide anti-jamming communications to war fighters globally.Image is courtesy of U.S. Space Systems Command. The United States Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) continues ...

GovSat (LuxGovSat S.A.), a public-private joint venture between the Luxembourg Government and SES, together with Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), have signed a contract for the supply of a new defence geostationary communications ...

Ovzon has received an additional order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for the company’s mobile satellite terminals, to be used with Ovzon’s high-performance SATCOM services. The order is valued at SEK 72 million (~7.6 MUSD), with deliveries scheduled ...