The Spy-6 air and missile defense radar system successfully completed its most challenging test, Raytheon and the U.S. Navy announced Tuesday.

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the USS Billings and three days announced the next littoral-class ship will be named after another U.S. city, USS Kingsville.

M7 Aerospace, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, was awarded a sub-contract worth up to $22 million to provide an avionics refresh for U.S. Air National Guard RC-26Bs.

The keel of the future USS Carl M. Levin, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was laid during ceremony at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine.

Kay and Associates Inc. was awarded a $63 million contract modification to maintain Kuwait’s F-18 fighter planes, the U.S. Defense Department announced.

Huntington Ingalls Industries was awarded a $15.2 billion contract to build 2 Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers at its Newport News Shipbuilding division.

The U.S. Navy laid the keel for its 12th Expeditionary Fast Transport, the future USNS Newport, at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala.

The U.S. State Department has approved Japan’s $2.15 billion purchase of two land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems.

Honeywell International Aerospace has been awarded an $85.7 million contract for software and hardware support services for the Air Force’s C-5 aircraft.

The U.S. Marine Corps has begun distributing about 1,300 helmet-mounted binocular night vision goggles to its infantry units.