Military Embedded Systems

PACIFIC OCEAN. The Ecuadorian and U.S. navies carried out a bilateral maritime engagement on April 7-8 during U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Southern Seas 2026 deployment, the U.S. Navy announced in a statement.

MCLEAN, Virginia. Booz Allen Hamilton, through its venture capital arm Booz Allen Ventures, invested in Portal Space Systems, a company developing maneuverable spacecraft for orbital operations, the company announced in a statement.

WARTON, England. BAE Systems completed a test firing of a low-cost precision weapon from a Eurofighter Typhoon to examine its use against threats from uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions won a $446.8 million Other Transaction Agreement from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to support the Ground Management and Integration effort for the Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program, the company announced in a statement.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan. General Dynamics Land Systems won a $450 million agreement from the U.S. Marine Corps for the Pre-Production Development phase of the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle competition, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies won a $150 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to sustain and modernize ground systems under the Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities program, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Abaco Systems introduced the VP892, a rugged 3U VPX field-programmable gate array processing card aimed at real-time defense, communications, and industrial workloads, the company announced in a statement.

CANBERRA, Australia. Australia is supporting Canada’s effort to develop an Arctic over-the-horizon radar system, with the Jindalee Operational Radar Network set to inform the first stage of the program, Australia’s Defence Department announced in a statement.

SLIDELL, Louisiana. Textron Systems won a $450 million Pre-Production Development agreement from the U.S. Marine Corps for the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle program, the company announced in a statement.

BERLIN, Germany. Exolaunch will deploy eight customer satellites for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kakushin Rising mission aboard a Rocket Lab Electron launch, the company announced in a statement.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts. Mercury Systems won a contract from L3Harris Technologies to provide solid-state data recorders for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Tranche 3 Tracking Layer satellites, the company announced in a statement.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Red Cat Holdings said a NATO ally selected its Black Widow small uncrewed aerial system (sUAS) through a competitive tender in March 2026, with deliveries of an undisclosed number of systems scheduled for 2026, the company announced in a statement.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Sweden placed an order worth about SEK 2.6 billion with Saab for a mobile, modular counter-uncrewed aerial system meant to protect the Swedish Armed Forces and civil infrastructure from drone threats, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, England. QinetiQ will support a five-year joint U.K.-Belgium program to help establish a Belgian Joint Electromagnetic Warfare Support Centre, the company announced in a statement.

SETE LAGOAS, Brazil. IDV inaugurated a new production line in Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, for the LMV-BR 2 4x4 multirole vehicle, the company announced in a statement.

WILMINGTON, Massachusetts. Analog Devices introduced the ADL8201, a direct current to 30 GHz reflective radio frequency limiter designed to protect sensitive circuitry, the company announced in a statement.

BALTIMORE, Maryland. Northrop Grumman won a contract from the U.S. Navy for as many as nine more Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 systems, including the first shipset planned for installation on an aircraft carrier, the company announced in a statement.

DUSSELDORF, Germany. Rheinmetall and Boeing Australia entered a strategic partnership to offer the MQ-28 Ghost Bat for Germany’s planned 2029 fielding of collaborative combat aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

OSLO, Norway. The Royal Netherlands Navy declared Shield AI’s V-BAT uncrewed aerial system (UAS) operational following testing aboard HNLMS Johan de Witt off northern Norway, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. SatShow Week 2026 put a spotlight on the hardware behind modern space operations, with exhibitors showing everything from onboard computers and power modules to anti-jamming antennas, software-defined radios, and virtual ground systems.