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State Approves Software Deal To India, Patriot Upgrades to Kuwait

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, April 30th, 2025

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State Approves Software Deal To India, Patriot Upgrades to Kuwait

Patriot air and missile defense system. (Photo: Raytheon)

The State Department on Wednesday approved a $131 million software deal to India and $425 million in services work with the Patriot air defense system to Kuwait. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the two proposed sales on Wednesday. The foreign military sale to India is for Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness and related equipment. Hawkeye 360 of Herndon, Va., is the contractor involved in this deal. India has asked to buy SeaVision software (including requested software enhancements); Technical Assistance…

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