This milestone delivery keeps the program on track for full assembly of the payload, known as Flight Unit 1, expected to launch in 2028.

“We met multiple challenges across a multiyear timeframe to successfully deliver our components for the next stage of full payload assembly,” said Thai Sheridan, vice president and general manager of military space for BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems. “This program will provide essential next-generation defense and intelligence capabilities for the Space Force.”

The sensor subassembly built by BAE Systems is a significant component of the mission payload and provides the optics, pointing mechanism, controlling electronics and electrical bus interface to the spacecraft.

The sensor system controller interfaces directly to the space vehicle to receive commands and provide telemetry data for the mission. It provides power control and conversion for sensor assembly components as well as high-accuracy mirror direction.

The BAE Systems hardware originally was designed for use with the geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) element of the program. Featuring a highly adaptable design, the components were able to be repurposed for the NGP mission, allowing the program to meet challenging schedule needs.

Source: BAE Systems

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As the U.S. Department of War accelerates toward AI-first operations, the challenge is no longer whether AI can generate useful outputs. The challenge is whether AI can carry out real work across fragmented systems, contested environments, and high-consequence operations while keeping humans in command.

Legion is built for that shift, according to the company. The company is introducing the Command Layer, its architecture for turning intent into governed action across agents, mission systems, and operational environments. At SOF Week, Legion will demonstrate how that architecture becomes deployable capability through Mission Packs, which package AI agents into role-specific operational capabilities, and Centurion, its deployable edge AI system for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited environments.

“Agentic AI will only matter to national security if it can do real work under real constraints,” said Ben Van Roo, CEO and co-founder of Legion Intelligence. “The Command Layer is what makes that possible: agents execute the work, Mission Packs make them usable for the roles military teams already perform, and Centurion brings that capability to the edge where missions actually happen, with governance built in so human authority remains intact.”

Mission Packs put Legion’s AI agents, applications, data connections, and governance safeguards to work on the jobs teams perform every day. Instead of starting from a blank prompt, users start with purpose-built capabilities for the work they need to complete, from preparing intelligence products and coordinating operations to surfacing command decisions and improving maintenance readiness.

“Mission Packs make AI agents usable in the real world,” said Steve Mahoney, SVP of Product at Legion Intelligence. “They give teams a starting point for action, not another empty chat interface. Each Pack brings together agents, tools, data, and controls for a specific operational role, so teams start from mission-ready capability instead of a blank prompt.”

Legion is also introducing Centurion III, an ultra-small form factor that brings governed AI into a laptop-class footprint at the edge. It extends Legion’s deployable AI footprint into environments where cloud access, stable networks, and centralized infrastructure cannot be assumed.

Source: Legion Intelligence

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As adversary investments in maritime systems accelerate and the demand for distributed, survivable forces grows, Maritime Technologies is purpose-built to give the U.S. and allied warfighters the tools to outpace the threat. It brings together a suite of prototype, fielded, and field-ready systems under a single mission: deliver innovation on the high seas, at the speed of relevance.

“Along with our compelling portfolio in space, spectrum, and cyber, the maritime domain is where the next decade of strategic competition will be decided,” said Dr. Phil Root, chief technology officer of GRVTY and head of Maritime Technologies. “Maritime Technologies is our answer: a focused, mission-driven team that puts autonomy, range, precision navigation, and scale directly in the hands of the operators who need them most.”

Source: GRVTY

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Built on Avatara’s FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency platform foundation, MRO provides organizations with a fully managed Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) enclave that supports all 110 CMMC Level 2 controls and enables customers to inherit 80% of the CMMC Level 2 practice objectives on Day 1, accelerating CMMC readiness timelines to as little as 60 days.

The launch comes at a critical moment for the DIB. As CMMC requirements move into active enforcement across the Department of Defense (DoD) supply chains, thousands of contractors face mounting pressure to secure compliant infrastructure, complete documentation requirements, and schedule assessments in an increasingly constrained certification market.

“Companies should be focused on growing their business and supporting their customers — not spending years navigating fragmented infrastructure, disconnected security tools, and compliance uncertainty,” said Rob McCormick, founder and CEO of Avatara. “Our mission is to help organizations thrive in regulated environments by simplifying the path to secure operations and compliance readiness, and MRO is here and now for an industry that needs trusted solutions.”

“Enterprises across the DIB understand that compliance is no longer optional — but most do not have the time, internal resources, or operational runway to spend a year rebuilding infrastructure and documentation from scratch,” said Matt Pushkin, vice president of compliance and government Sslutions at Avatara. “MRO gives contractors a deterministic path forward. We provide the compliant platform foundation, the operational support, and the documentation acceleration needed to move organizations toward assessment readiness quickly and confidently.”

Source: Avatara

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Built for the realities of modern operations, Identifi enables Special Operations Forces to verify identities and assess threats securely and instantly entirely on-device, without network dependency. The system fuses multiple biometric modalities into a compact, rugged platform designed to perform when and where other technologies cannot.

“This milestone represents years of partnership with Special Operations Forces to deliver technology that works when and where they need it most,” said Garrett Smith, CEO of Reveal Technology. “Identifi gives operators the power to make faster, more confident decisions in the field and strengthens the safety of every mission it supports.”

Developed hand-in-hand with the SOF user community and the USSOCOM program office, Identifi reflects an operator-first design philosophy: fast to learn, resilient under pressure, and built for the tempo of real-world missions. The system integrates seamlessly into existing Special Operations workflows, delivering the speed, security, and interoperability required for modern identity intelligence operations.

“Becoming a Program of Record validates the trust SOCOM has placed in our team and technology,” said Noëlle Tuss, director of defense strategy at Reveal. “Identifi ensures that biometric identification and verification remain accessible, secure, and mission-ready across the spectrum of operations.”

Source: Reveal Technology

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From real-time media monitoring to influence campaign planning, Peraton IRIS supports the full analytical lifecycle — transforming multi-source data into clear, actionable intelligence at the speed operations demand.

“Peraton has long understood that the information environment is not a secondary theater: it is a primary one. Peraton IRIS represents the convergence of artificial intelligence and real-time data integration,” said Tom Afferton, president of Peraton’s Cyber and Intelligence Sector. “Combined with deep operational expertise, Peraton IRIS is a single platform that empowers our analysts, planners, graphics illustrators, researchers, and most importantly, operators, to stay ahead of adversary narratives, counter their messaging at scale, and support mission success across every domain. In an era of cognitive warfare, speed and clarity of understanding are decisive advantages, and Peraton IRIS delivers both.”

As adversaries increasingly weaponize information to erode public trust, manipulate perceptions, and undermine democratic institutions, Peraton IRIS equips operators and mission planners with the tools needed to detect, understand, and counter these threats at machine speed. The platform brings together continuously updated data sources into a single, intuitive interface that supports real-time decision-making across the full spectrum of information operations, according to the company.

Peraton IRIS orchestrates five of the nation’s most powerful AI models — and layers on top of them the mission data, domain context, and analytical workflows that turn raw AI capability into actionable national security intelligence. Peraton IRIS is vendor-agnostic, data agnostic, and contract-agnostic. The LLMs are powerful engines. Peraton IRIS is the vehicle — with the mission map, the fuel, and the driver already built in.

Peraton IRIS is designed around the realities of today’s information environment, where cognitive warfare —the deliberate targeting of human perception, belief systems, and decision-making—has emerged as one of the most consequential domains of modern conflict. Nation-state adversaries and non-state actors alike are deploying sophisticated influence campaigns, disinformation networks, and narrative manipulation strategies to achieve strategic objectives without firing a single shot.

Peraton IRIS addresses this challenge by providing advanced semantic search, natural language querying, sentiment trend analysis, and AI-assisted narrative tracking — enabling teams to identify influence operations in near real-time, map adversary messaging strategies, and develop data-driven counter-narratives. The platform’s cognitive warfare module supports Psychological Operations (PSYOP) and Information Operations (IO) planning and target audience analysis, giving commanders and planners an unprecedented edge in the battle for the information domain, the company said.

“What Peraton IRIS does is fundamentally change the relationship between the user and the data. Instead of spending hours aggregating information from disparate sources, operators can now ask complex, multi-layered questions in natural language and receive synthesized, citation-backed answers in seconds,” said Cliff Bean, senior director of cognitive warfare. “That shift — from data management to genuine insight generation — is what makes Peraton IRIS a force multiplier for every mission it supports.”

Source: Peraton

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The 450RM operates on iDirectGov’s Evolution Defense, Viasat GX, SES Flex and DVB-S2X networks, as well as the military-standard 188/165B Enhanced Bandwidth Efficient Modem (EBEM). It supports operations across geostationary (GEO), highly elliptical (HEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations, while maintaining the highest security standards.

Designed for space-constricted environments, the half-rack unit allows two 450RMs to be mounted side-by-side in the rack, minimizing rack space requirements while providing a protected, durable form factor.

“The 450RM is resilient, secure and flexible to suit our troops’ satellite communications at the tactical edge,” said Tim Winter, iDirectGov president. “Its multi-technology architecture delivers optimized performance and efficient operations.”

The 450RM is powered by the 4‑Series SDM architecture, which integrates iDirectGov’s Communication Signal Interference Removal (CSIR) technology and a Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)-140-3 Level 3 approved Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Cryptographic engine for secure, resilient communications. This architecture enables a TRANSEC‑compliant network design that exceeds U.S. government standards and delivers high‑quality voice, video and data across contested environments.

Source: iDirectGov

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National security enterprise leaders are currently caught in a technical debt dilemma: a $100M+ trap where the mandate for AI dominance is clear, but the cost and operational downtime of “ripping and replacing” legacy software and data lakes is prohibitive. Helix solves this dilemma by allowing users to bring AI to the data and existing software, rather than demanding the data move to a proprietary cloud, enabling agencies to preserve 100% of their current IT ROI while gaining immediate agentic capability, at scale.

Helix works with existing software and hardware, and operates in classified environments as well as NIPR (Non-Secure Internet Protocol Router). It is at Technology Readiness Level 7 and is already deployed within intelligence organizations, where it is actively saving thousands of man-hours, reducing operational risk, and accelerating time to decision. Unlike rigid systems for others in the government software space, Helix adapts instantly. As a part of scalable data solutions, it accesses, analyzes, and acts on petabytes (PB) of information in seconds, not days or weeks. Tasks that once took a team a month can now be completed by an individual in hours.

“Trust is earned in denied environments, not in labs,” said Joe Logue, CEO of Two Six Technologies. “Helix is not aspirational R&D; it is a proven, reliable operational product already deployed at two government agencies in classified environments, where it supports critical national security missions today. It was designed from day one to meet the most rigorous security and compliance standards of the national security community. Two Six’s ‘blueprint’ is to combine first-hand mission expertise with cutting-edge technology and operational deployment at speeds no other providers can achieve. Helix is no exception.”

Early adopter IC and DoW partners chose Helix for its ability to retain control of their data in their own trusted environment with a model-agnostic, industry protocol standard foundation that integrates seamlessly across classified, legacy, and modern systems without forcing infrastructure changes or requiring them to convert to a proprietary ontology.

Helix acts as a “brain” or orchestrator that integrates directly into existing workflows. It allows a single user, in role-based logic, to task AI agents to engage with existing data, tools, and software applications in a fully secure and compliant environment. By accelerating decision cycles and eliminating manual data stitching, Helix empowers defense and intelligence teams to act faster and with greater confidence in high-stakes environments where failure is not an option, according to the company.

Source: Two Six Technologies

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When an endpoint is compromised, responders must race against the clock to pull critical data before systems are wiped, reimaged or attacked again. But risky connections and legacy technology may spread malware, break chain of custody, and trigger costly enclave rebuilds. The Owl IRD solves this with hardware-enforced, protocol-aware one-way transfer per U.S. Government PFD requirements. As a PFD, the Owl IRD enhances the unidirectional nature of a simple diode with protocol filtering at the FPGA level — delivering a secure, repeatable evidence path that reduces reinfection risk and preserves forensic integrity. The Owl IRD extends Owl’s PFD suite to the endpoint, complementing Owl Talon’s always-on network flows with purpose-built incident response capabilities, from endpoint triage to evidence intake and one-way mission data collection. High-stakes collections become a consistent, defensible workflow.

“Every incident responder knows the uncomfortable tradeoffs they face when collecting evidence from a live, compromised system,” said Tim Fahl, chief technology officer at Owl Cyber Defense. “Their options are to rush ahead with tools that put their clean environments at risk, or slow everything down trying to engineer safer workarounds in the middle of a crisis. The Owl IRD eliminates that tradeoff by putting protocol-aware, hardware-enforced, one-way protection directly into the responder’s go-bag, so teams can confidently collect what they need without opening new paths for the adversary.”

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Developed as part of AV’s holistically integrated C-UAS strategy, Halo_Shield introduces a unique, tile-based layered defense architecture that is open, scalable, and adaptable to today’s evolving threats. The system is designed to support emerging homeland defense priorities by enabling resilient, area-wide protection of high-value U.S. and allied partner assets, including borders, military installations, and other critical infrastructure. AV is currently demonstrating capabilities and has deployed Halo_Shield tiles at select critical sites.

“The character of the air threat has fundamentally changed,” said Wahid Nawabi, chairman, president, and chief executive officer at AV. “Cheap, massed, and coordinated aerial systems are stressing traditional point defenses. Halo_Shield is our answer—a collaborative, modular approach that brings together the best of AV and a trusted supplier ecosystem to close those gaps.”

At the core of Halo_Shield is a mission-tailored, distributed and domain-specific tile architecture—comprising Sentinel, Terrestrial, Nautical, Aerial and Celestial tiles. Each tile delivers a specialized combination of sensors, effectors, and command-and-control capabilities, drawing on technology from AV and its trusted ecosystem of suppliers. The result is a cost-efficient defense architecture that is offense-ready, extends protection beyond point defense and sustains decisive situational advantage in contested battlespaces across air, land, sea and space.

Designed for plug-and-play integration, Halo_Shield is deployable as portable fly-away kits and integrates seamlessly with existing customer sensors, effectors, and command-and-control frameworks—delivering scalable, resilient, area-wide protection with minimal training and personnel demands. Powered by AV_Halo, AV’s unified software platform, the system is purpose-built yet agnostic, designed to incorporate new capabilities while seamlessly integrating with customers’ existing command-and-control systems.

“Halo_Shield is engineered like an edge processing-capable set of tiles for modern air defense,” said Larry Lloyd, senior vice president of strategic initiatives at AV. “Each tile is a self-contained capability that can operate on its own or snap together to build exactly the defense architecture a mission demands. That modularity lets operators scale, adapt, and reconfigure in real time as threats evolve, without redesigning the system or retraining the force. It’s how you move from static point defense to a living, mission-tailored shield.”

Source: AeroVironment

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