Lockheed Martin Awarded Naval Electronic Warfare Program Contract http://www.defense.gov WASHINGTON - Lockheed Martin, Rotary and Missions Systems, Liverpool, New York, was awarded a $22.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-only modification to the previously awarded contract (N00024-24-C-5510) to exercise an option for SLQ-32(V)6 Design Agent Engineering, Incidental Material, and Travel. This contract involves Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to Canada.

Work will be performed in Liverpool, New York, and is expected to be completed by January 2027. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Source: U.S. Navy
Associated URL: http://www.defense.gov

STOCKHOLM - Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, FMV, for the Trackfire Remote Weapon Station (RWS). The order value is approximately SEK 1,5 billion and deliveries will take place 2026-2028. The order was booked in Q4 2025.

The FMV order will serve the Swedish Army and the Amphibious Battalion 2030, which is an ongoing defence project aimed at developing the future amphibious forces within the Swedish Armed Forces.

Trackfire RWS is a fully stabilized, remotely operated dual-weapon station that offers pinpoint accuracy while on the move, whether mounted on naval vessels, land vehicles, or stationary defense positions. The FMV order includes the new Trackfire ARES (Aerial Response) RWS, equipped with a 30x113 mm M230LF Bushmaster chain gun as its primary weapon, which provides effective anti-drone (C-UAS) capability.

Source: Saab
Associated URL: https://www.saab.com/

SYDNEY -- University of New South Wales (UNSW) researchers have been awarded $3,220,633 (approx. USD $2.15M) by the Australian Defence Force's Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies program.

The award will go toward the development of a new generation of multimodal foundation models.

The models are designed to operate in contested and dynamic environments faced by defense teams, where data is unpredictable, access is intermittent or limited and decisions must be made swiftly.

A key goal will be developing new security defenses for multimodal AI that are not currently available. This includes input and output filtering, along with adversarial training to help the system learn to identify and manage attacks and hostile environments.

Source: University of New South Wales
Associated URL: https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/01/unsw-sydney-lands-3m-defence-project-to-build-next-gen-ai