Military Embedded Systems

PARIS, France. Thales has been selected by Pilatus to provide a radio management system for a fleet of PC-7 military trainer aircraft operated in Europe, the company announced in a statement.

FORT WORTH, Texas. Elbit Systems of America won a $49.9 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Army to produce heads-up displays for the Air Soldier System, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment has acquired Empirical Systems Aerospace, Inc. in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at about $200 million, adding engineering and manufacturing capacity in uncrewed aviation and propulsion, the company announced in a statement.

DALLAS, Texas. Lockheed Martin completed the first flight test of the Precision Strike Missile Increment 2, a version of the missile designed to engage moving land and maritime targets, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. BAE Systems completed the preliminary design review for the U.S. Space Force’s $1.2 billion Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking -- Medium Earth Orbit Epoch 2 program, which is intended to provide space-based missile warning and tracking against ballistic missiles and hypersonic glide vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI demonstrated an integration of L3Harris’ Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations battle management ecosystem with Shield AI’s Hivemind mission-autonomy software for autonomous electronic warfare, the company announced in a statement.

SYDNEY, Australia. DroneShield has established a counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) manufacturing line in the European Union through a collaboration with a contract manufacturer, the company announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, England. Blighter won a contract to supply border surveillance radars and related software to an undisclosed Eastern European army for fixed and vehicle-mounted border monitoring, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. DARPA’s X-76 experimental aircraft entered the build phase under Bell Textron as part of the SPeed and Runway INdependent Technologies program, the agency announced in a statement.

FORT WORTH, Texas. Elbit Systems of America won a $120.5 million Other Transaction Authority contract from the U.S. Army to develop the Soldier Borne Mission Command system, the company announced in a statement.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida. Autonomous drone and autonomous systems company Powerus is set to merge with Aureus Greenway Holdings in a deal that would create a combined company expected to trade on Nasdaq as PUSA, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) is no longer just a government acquisition goal -- it's now a business strategy for defense suppliers trying to move technology into the field faster, said panelists at the Military Embedded Systems MOSA Virtual Summit on Feb. 26.

HARSTAD, Norway. Shield AI says it demonstrated ship- and land-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions with its V-BAT uncrewed aerial system (UAS) during NATO’s HEIMDALL 26 exercise in Norway, the company announced in a statement.

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico. AeroVironment plans to invest more than $30 million to expand manufacturing across three existing sites in Albuquerque’s Sandia Science & Technology Park, the company announced in a statement.

DENVER, Colorado. Lockheed Martin will provide an anti-jamming communications payload for Japan’s Next-Generation Defense Satellite Communication System being developed by Mitsubishi Electric for Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the company announced in a statement.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Red Cat Holdings said Allen Control Systems joined its Futures Initiative and will work with the company on integrating the Bullfrog autonomous counter-drone system with Red Cat platforms, the company announced in a statement.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico. Hermeus flew its Quarterhorse Mk 2.1 aircraft for the first time at Spaceport America, beginning a flight-test campaign intended to reach supersonic speeds, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a $186 million U.S. Army delivery order for Switchblade 600 Block 2 and Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munition systems, the company announced in a statement.

Autonomous operations can range from small drones to autonomous surface vessels, with the real competitive edge shifting from who builds the best platform to who can upgrade it fastest. Open architectures promise plug-and-play tech insertion – with the hard part being the “glue”: the interfaces, timing, thermal and power behaviors, and configuration control that decide whether a new payload, compute card, or comms module drops in cleanly or triggers months of requalification. Designs that take a modular open systems approach (MOSA) help solve those interconnect challenges.

NETANYA, Israel. Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. won a $3.2 million follow-on order from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for the supply of satellite communication systems, the company announced in a statement.