A General Atomics affiliate has won a potential $93.3M contract from the U.S. Army to conduct research, development, test and evaluation of artificial intelligence-based sensor technology for potential use in unmanned aerial systems.

The State Department has approved Taiwan’s request to buy four General Atomics-built MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft, related equipment and services under a potential $600M foreign military sales agreement.

Anantha Krishnan, a 15-year veteran of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and most recently associate laboratory director of the LLNL engineering directorate, has been appointed senior vice president of the energy business at General Atomics.

General Atomics has acquired Longmont, Colorado-based adaptive optics technology developer Guidestar Optical Systems as part of efforts to introduce “groundbreaking” platforms in both the defense and space sectors.

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has partnered with Aerojet Rocketydyne and General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business to form an industry team to compete for the Missile Defense Agency’s Next-Generation Interceptor program. Norm Tew -- vice president and general manager of the missile and weapon systems division at Boeing’s defense, space and security business -- said the Boeing-led team aims to deliver critical technology to improve the country’s homeland missile defense by building on the companies’ decades of combined experience in missile and weapons systems.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Atomics a potential five-year, $7.4B contract to deliver up to 36 units of the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle per year.

General Atomics' aeronautical systems business has received a $188.9M sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide four MQ-9B SkyGuardian unmanned air vehicles to Belgium as part of a foreign military sales transaction.

A General Atomics business unit has secured a potential six-year, $32.9M contract to develop spacecraft NASA will use on a mission to measure solar energy input to Earth. The company's electromagnetic systems group will help the space agency build and test the space vehicle for the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 effort, NASA said Thursday.

General Atomics and the Space Development Agency have partnered to conduct a series of tests for an optical intersatellite link with wavelength laser communication terminals as part of efforts to speed up data transmission in space.

General Atomics has bought the intellectual property, facilities and other assets of Pasadena, Calif.-based gimbal maker IJK Controls for an undisclosed sum to add payload stabilization technology to the former's unmanned aircraft system offerings.