Kopin Receives Contract Increase for US Army’s Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor (NGSRI) Visual Display Subsystem (VDS)

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. – Kopin Corporation (NASDAQ: KOPN), a leading provider of application-specific optical systems and high-performance microdisplays for defense, training, enterprise, industrial, consumer and medical products, today announced it has received a contract update for development Phase 2 of the Next-Generation Short-Range Interceptor (NGSRI) Visual Display Subsystem (VDS) from Lockheed Martin. As a global defense…

Electronic Warfare and Drones: Why Unmanned Platforms Need AI Capabilities

A recent Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) in Alaska tested low-cost attack drones under heavy EW (Electronic Warfare) environment. UAS prototypes struggled with one crash after losing signal, and the other missed its target and caught fire. These challenges highlight the growing complexity of deploying unmanned systems in contested, EW environments, especially when GPS and Comms…