Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), one of two large warship manufacturing companies for U.S. naval services, is continuing to make headway in its efforts to diversify its business portfolio with a major new U.S. Air Force contract to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).

The U.S. Air Force is planning to hold its second demonstration of the Advanced Battle Management System in April, in which an unmanned aircraft system will fly with a government-owned open communication system used for translating waveforms to communicate with the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II.

BAE is expected to pay $1.925 billion for Collins’ GPS business and another $275 million for Raytheon’s radio business

The U.S. Navy wants to replace the radio-frequency countermeasures and radar-warning receiver systems on its Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets with a new electronic warfare system.

The new pod will become one of the key capabilities for the F/A-18E/F Block III that is scheduled to enter flight testing in a few months.

BridgeComm and Boeing’s HorizonX are exploring applications for a new, ultra-high-speed communications network for systems on land, in the air and in space.

Thales and Leonardo, plans to study potential military uses of the Stratobus as part of a contract issued by the French defense materiel agency, DGA, and announced on Jan. 8.

The Pentagon acquisition executive and her Indian counterpart have agreed to a U.S.-India Defense Technology Initiative.