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Finland’s Nokia and German company blackned, in which Rheinmetall holds a 51% stake, have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to create advanced deployable tactical networks for the defence sector, the companies jointly announced on 28 May 2025. The partnership brings together Nokia’s 5G technology and blackned’s expertise in defence digitalisation to develop high-performance, […]

Rheinmetall unveiled Battlesuite, its new digital platform for networked military systems, at the AFCEA 2025 defence exhibition, held in Bonn on 27-28 May. Battlesuite is based on blackned’s Tactical Core, which basically its operating system, and expands it with a theoretically infinite number of available or future applications similar to the app architecture of a […]

Honeywell’s JetWave X high-speed satellite communication (satcom) system has been selected by L3Harris Technologies to upgrade the US Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System (ARES) aircraft, Honeywell announced on 14 May 2025. The ARES platform, which is Bombardier Global 6000/6500-class business jet owned and operated by L3Harris, is a US Army demonstrator aircraft that […]

UK secure communications specialist Spectra Group has partnered with Indiana-based BATS Wireless to develop a new capability enhancement for Comtech troposcatter 10-Watt Compact Over-the-Horizon Mobile Expeditionary Terminals (COMET), the company announced on 1 May 2025. Called Troposcatter on the Move (TOTM), the capability is being launched at the SOF Week 2025 exposition, held in Tampa, […]

Denmark-headquartered command-and-control (C2) specialist Systematic has delivered some insight into its upcoming BattleCloud application: the latest cloud-based addition to the company’s SitaWare suite of C4ISR solutions. Delivering a presentation to a select audience at Systematic’s facilities at Farnborough Airport in the UK on 28 April 2025, Andrew Graham, the company’s UK senior vice president for […]

The dangers posed by cyber conflict are significant and require preparation by the joint force to counter such them, a senior US Department of Defense (DoD) specialist has warned. Remotely addressing the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command Cyber Expo 2025 in El Segundo, California, on 22 April, John Garstka, Director for Cyber Warfare within the […]

From 7 to 11 April 2025 representatives from 20 NATO government and national agencies exercised the alliance’s ability to co-ordinate responses to significant malicious cyber activities affecting critical national infrastructures. The exercise, organised by the Czech Republic, aimed to ensure that NATO’s Virtual Cyber Incident Support Capability (VCISC) mechanism can operate swiftly and smoothly. Launched […]

The Bulgarian Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) has selected Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) to upgrade its national spectrum monitoring network, the company announced on 14 April 2025. The CRC is to replace seven existing fixed monitoring sites that currently use R&S ESMB, R&S DDF195/190 and R&S ADD195/190 DF antennas with the future-proof R&S ESMW and R&S ADD597 direction-finding (DF) antennas, all […]

L3Harris Technologies signed a long-term agreement with the Dutch Ministry of Defence (MoD) on 27 March 2025 for the delivery of advanced Falcon IV tactical radios under the Dutch armed forces’ Foxtrot tactical digitisation programme, L3 Harris announced on 31 March. The agreement is valued at up to EUR 1 billion. “Our battle-proven communication systems […]

ELT Group Deutschland, the German arm of European defence electronics house ELT Group, has been awarded a contract by the Finnish Ministry of Defence for the design, implementation, documentation and support of an electronic protective measures (EPM) training system, the company announced on 11 March 2025 The value of the contract, if all options are […]

Thales unveiled a new vehicle-mounted version of its SquadNet radio on 12 March 2025. Offering full interoperability with the company’s individual soldier SquadNet radio, the Vehicle Mounted SquadNet Radio (VMSR) provides a secure and reliable voice connection while delivering low-latency blue force tracking between vehicles and troops to prevent fratricide and improve battlefield co-ordination. Furthermore, […]

The French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) has awarded the contract for the IP Network of the Naval Force (RIFAN) stage 3 to an industrial consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space and including Naval Group. The contract, which has a maximum value of EUR 480 million and a maximum duration of 10 years, covers the […]

General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) has been selected by the German Army for its procurement of a vehicle-based long-range telecommunications network as part of the Bundeswehr’s Tactical Wide Area Network (TaWAN) modernisation effort, the company announced on 20 February 2025. GDELS will supply up to 256 Piranha 5 8×8 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) under a […]

The UK Ministry of Defence’s Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) organisation has awarded Thales UK a GBP 250 million (EUR 300 million) contract to upgrade, maintain and support the communications systems of the Royal Navy’s warship and submarine fleet, the company announced on 12 February 2025. The 10-year long contract for Maritime Communications Capability Support […]

Elbit Systems announced on 10 February 2025 that it has been selected by a European country to provide a Joint National Digital Fire Command Centre (JNDFC) and to integrate the customer’s strategic and tactical firing platforms to the JNDFC. The Israeli company declined to name its client, as is often the case, although it usually […]

Rheinmetall has been awarded a contract by the Bundeswehr to act as prime contractor in setting up its future integrated communication network known as the Tactical Wide Area Network for Land Based Operations (TaWAN LBO), the company announced on 4 February 2025. The 10-year framework contract for the procurement of TaWAN LBO, which is worth […]

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced on 29 January 2025 that it has successfully integrated its ADA global satellite navigation system (GNSS) anti-jamming system with the new M-code GPS military receiver for an international customer. The integration enables the ADA system to deal with evolving and emerging threats to GNSS signals. The ADA system hardens military platforms […]

Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and the Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) of the UK Royal Air Force (RAF) have completed the first-ever live F-35 classified data share with a non-US command-and-control (C2) system, Lockheed Martin announced on 4 December 2024. The effort, dubbed Project Deimos, involved a real-time, live-fly demonstration in which an F-35 Lightning II fighter flying from Lockheed […]

L3Harris Technologies has received an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract award from the US Navy worth up to USD 999 million (EUR 947 million) to provide US and coalition forces with resilient communications technology, the company announced on 25 November 2024. Over the next five years L3Harris will deliver its Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio […]

UK-based technology group Cohort has strengthened its naval sector portfolio with the acquisition of EM Solutions, a leading Australian developer and producer of high-end naval satellite communication (satcom) terminals, Cohort announced on 21 November 2024. As part of Cohort’s ambitious growth strategy, the EM Solutions acquisition will reinforce the group’s market position in Australasia. Commenting on […]

The Austrian Armed Forces have contracted Systematic Defence to provide its SitaWare Headquarters and SitaWare Frontline command-and-control (C2) software, the company announced on 19 November 2024. The Systematic software, which was selected following a public tender process, will form a key component in the Austrian Armed Forces’ efforts to modernise their C2 infrastructure and ensure […]