Military Embedded Systems

TEL AVIV, Israel. The Israel Ministry of Defense signed an approximately $130 million agreement with Elbit Systems to integrate Israeli command-and-control, avionics, electronic warfare, and directed infrared countermeasure capabilities onto 12 Israel Defense Forces Israeli Air Force CH-53K “Pereh” helicopters, the company announced in a statement.

Radar and electronic warfare (EW) teams face a growing mismatch: Threats in the electromagnetic spectrum change quickly, but many fielded systems are still built in ways that make upgrades slow and costly. The Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard is intended to reduce that gap by standardizing how radar and EW hardware and software fit together, making it easier to insert new processing and replace components without major chassis redesign. This feature explains what problems the SOSA approach is solving for radar and EW programs, why implementation can be difficult in practice, how the SOSA Technical Standard supports faster tech insertion to keep pace with emerging threats, and what obstacles remain as the ecosystem matures.

NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems won an $87.5 million U.S. Army order for mobile ad hoc network (MANET) devices supporting the transport layer for the Army’s Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype, the company announced in a statement.

OBERKOCHEN, Germany. Hensoldt won orders valued at more than €400 million from KNDS to provide digital optronics for the Boxer RCT 30 wheeled armored vehicle, known as Schakal, and the Leopard 2 A8 main battle tank, the company announced in a statement.

TUCSON, Arizona. Raytheon entered into five framework agreements with the U.S. military aimed at expanding production capacity and accelerating deliveries for Tomahawk cruise missiles, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) weapons, Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB and Block IIA interceptors, and Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) missiles, the company announced in a statement.

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania. BAE Systems won a $195 million contract to produce 30 additional Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACVs) for the U.S. Marine Corps, the company announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. HENSOLDT won orders worth more than €100 million from Diehl Defence to supply additional TRML-4D air defense radars for multiple European countries under the European Sky Shield Initiative, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. Lockheed Martin won a $328.5 million Foreign Military Sales production contract from the U.S. government to supply IRST21 Legion-ES infrared search-and-track (IRST) sensor systems for the Taiwan Air Force, the company announced in a statement.

OSLO, Norway. Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and consortium partner Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa have signed a contract with Poland’s Armaments Agency to deliver counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities under the SAN CUAS program, the company announced in a statement.

PORTSMOUTH, Rhode Island. Raytheon was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an advanced sensing and targeting system intended to help defend commercial shipping and naval logistics vessels against threats such as unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), the company announced in a statement.

WAYNE, New Jersey. Data Link Solutions won a $248 million U.S. Navy production contract to supply hundreds of Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) terminals for U.S. forces and allied users, the company announced in a statement.

NEW DELHI, India. Shield AI says the Indian Army has selected the company to supply V-BAT uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) along with licenses for its Hivemind autonomy software to be integrated onto the aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. Boeing will build four additional MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters and provide related sustainment for the U.S. Air Force under a contract award that brings cumulative program awards to more than $262 million, the company announced in a statement.

ALTENSTADT, Germany. Rheinmetall says it participated in a Bundeswehr exercise at the service’s Army Combat Training Centre in Saxony-Anhalt, using its LUNA NG uncrewed aerial system (UAS) for reconnaissance and networked operations, the company announced in a statement.

RESTON, Virginia. CACI International won a five-year task order valued at up to $250 million to support the U.S. Army Capability Program Executive -- Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors in efforts tied to spectrum dominance, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS won a subcontract to provide Infrared Mission Payloads for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 3 (TRKT3) effort supporting missile defense, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, England. Concurrent launched a 32-core 3U VPX computing board based on an Intel Xeon 6 system-on-chip (SoC) for rugged edge-computing applications, the company announced in a statement.

DELRAY BEACH, Florida. MarketsandMarkets projects the loitering munition market will grow from $5.36 billion in 2025 to $13.26 billion by 2030, representing a 19.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), the company announced in a statement.

GREENVILLE, Texas. L3Harris Technologies delivered the first MC-55A aircraft to the U.S. Air Force following integration and mission system testing tied to Australia’s Peregrine fleet, the company announced in a statement.

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii. Lockheed Martin demonstrated the first iteration of a Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype during the U.S. Army’s Lightning Surge 1 exercise with the 25th Infantry Division and other stakeholders, the company announced in a statement.