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EDGE entity Oryxlabs, a specialist in digital risk protection and advanced cyber solutions, has launched Dark Eye: a dark web monitoring and brand protection platform. Launched at Defense & Security Thailand 2025, held in Bangkok from 10 to 13 November, Dark Eye marks the latest addition to Oryxlabs’ portfolio in threat detection and attack surface […]

The Alliance for European Secure Software Defined Radio (a4ESSOR), a multinational joint venture that develops secure software-defined radio (SDR) technology, has signed a procurement contract with Europe’s intergovernmental Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) to carry out the capability deployment of the ESSOR High Data Rate Waveform (EHDRWF), a4ESSOR announced on 3 November 2025. The […]

Spain’s Indra Group announced on 30 October 2025 that it has officially launched IndraMind: the first Spanish technological initiative that develops sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) in a cyber-resilient environment for the comprehensive protection of citizens, territories and critical physical and digital infrastructures and assets. The move is intended as a decisive step towards strategic superiority […]

ELT Group unveiled two new artificial intelligence (AI)-related initiatives at the Seafutures 2025 event, held in La Spezia, Italy, from 29 September until 2 October. One project focuses on ‘Virtual & Extended Reality in Maintenance and Training’, while the other centres on ‘Maintenance and Customer Service Management’. Both initiatives involve the integration of AI with augmented-reality and […]

Scandinavian communications specialist Invisio has secured a 10-year Production Other Transaction Agreement (P-OTA) with the US Coast Guard (USCG) worth up to SEK 930 million, with the first SEK 25 million order of Invisio systems to be delivered in 2025, the company annunced on 25 September 2025. Under the agreement Invisio will provide wireless interface […]

On 10 September 2025, Systematic and Helsing announced that they were partnering to offer a type of sensor-to-shooter capability based around the two companies’ software platforms. This is intended to be used with networked intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and effectors such as Helsing’s HX-2 loitering munitions. As […]

Israel’s Orbit Communication Systems has high hopes for its recently launched MPT30Ka Satcom On-The-Move (SOTM) deployable multi-purpose satellite communications (satcom) terminal (MPT): its most compact satcom system designed to provide satcom-on-the-move capabilities for military vehicles, maritime vessels and for rapid dismounted deployment. Speaking to ESD at the DSEI 2025 defence exhibition in London on 11 […]

With an expertise in optimising data performance that stretches back over 40 years, Hampshire-headquartered Bridgeworks is looking for its artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced data transmission technology to provide Western armed and security forces with true decision advantage. The speed and assurance with which data can be transferred in a military context has long been recognised as […]

Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) Australia announced on 11 August 2025 that it has awarded a contract to STS Defence to provide the twin integrated main configurable communications masts for the Royal Australian Navy’s first three warships being delivered under the Hunter Class Frigate Program (HCFP). When integrated with R&S’s NAVICS naval integrated communications Multi-Level Security (MLS) system, […]

RTX’s BBN Technologies business has been awarded a contract from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support its Intelligent Generation of Tools for Security (INGOTS) programme, RTX announced on 5 August 2025. INGOTS aims to strengthen cyber security by developing advanced methods to identify and mitigate complex exploit chains, preventing their use […]

Leonardo has strengthened its cyber security portfolio by acquiring Swedish firm Axiomatics, the Italian company announced on 9 July 2025. “The operation adds a key component in completing the company’s offering in the field of ‘Zero Trust’: a model of cyber security in which trust is never implicit, and every single system, network and data […]

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 […]