Aerospace

Greece and Israel have signed the €3.035 billion Achilles Shield. The programme combines layered air defence with more than €750 million of Greek industrial participation and a domestic production base.

Pratt & Whitney has secured new F135 engineering development funding. The $240.8m modification advances Engine Core Upgrade work into engineering and manufacturing development while funding readiness improvements and long-lead hardware for a spare test engine.

Raytheon has completed a $50m expansion at its Mississippi plant. The 17,000-square-foot addition increases production, test, and integration capacity for electronic warfare and airborne radar systems while adding 100 skilled jobs by 2028.

Australia is testing Viper for automated military space surveillance operations. The optical telescope trial examines direct sensor tasking, automated analysis, and sovereign control of observations supporting future space-domain-awareness requirements.

Northrop Grumman’s IVEWS has surpassed 500 flight-test hours on F-16s. The milestone comes as the US Air Force prepares procurement of the internal electronic-warfare suite across more than 200 operational aircraft.

Lockheed Martin has demonstrated its Guam missile-defence battle manager prototype. The Phase 2 evaluation combined Aegis Guam and IBCS data while using algorithms to prioritise engagement recommendations for operators.

LeoLabs has secured a Space Force transportable radar prototype agreement. The $20.68 million award will adapt its containerised Scout architecture for a new defence mission while retaining rapid deployment and distributed sensing.