Military Embedded Systems

AUSTIN, Texas. Ultra Intelligence & Communications (Ultra I&C) will provide its Archer troposcatter communications system to the U.S. Army for training and evaluation, the company announced in a statement.

SICILY, Italy. QinetiQ provided live and virtual counter-drone training to the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group and NATO allies during Exercise Med Strike, a seven-day maritime exercise conducted off the eastern coast of Sicily, the company announced in a statement.

SEOUL, South Korea. BAE Systems and Hanwha Systems signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop a multi-sensor satellite system for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) applications, the company announced in a statement.

Drones that hunt targets without human pilots. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that predict when military equipment will break down weeks before it actually fails. Computer networks that keep working even when enemies jam communications or cut internet connections. These visions of the future are unfolding right now, as the defense industry moves beyond prototypes to deploy AI systems that military personnel can use in real operations.

TAMPA, Florida. Ombra won a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue development of robotic swarming technologies focused on runway repair and damage assessment, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies won an additional contract from the U.S. Department of Defense to supply more VAMPIRE counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platforms, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. The U.K. Ministry of Defence signed a support and sustainment contract with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) for logistics and maintenance of the Royal Air Force’s Protector RG Mk1 uncrewed aerial system (UAS), the company announced in a statement.

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. The U.S. Marine Corps received its final MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 Extended Range uncrewed aerial system (UAS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, concluding a three-year delivery program, the Naval Air Systems Command announced in a statement.

EL SEGUNDO, California. BAE Systems won a $1.2 billion contract from U.S. Space Systems Command to develop a medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite system for missile warning and tracking, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Northrop Grumman and Marshall Land Systems signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop command-and-control hardware in support of the United Kingdom’s Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) program, the company announced in a statement.

DULLES, Virginia. Northrop Grumman completed integration of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s robotic payload onto its Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV), a key milestone in the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the company announced in a statement.

PHOENIX, Arizona. Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-7000 weather radar system has received certification from Brazil’s National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) for installation on Bombardier Learjet 40 and 45 aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

MOORPARK, California. Quantum Systems opened a new 135,000-square-foot U.S. facility in Southern California to scale manufacturing and integration of its AI-enabled intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platforms, the company announced in a statement.

GREENLAWN, New York. BAE Systems won a $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to update the AN/APX-123A(V) Common Transponder (CXP) used for Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) applications, the company announced in a statement.

SYRACUSE, New York. The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration chose Lockheed Martin’s TPY-4 ground-based radar to expand the country’s long-range air surveillance capabilities, the company announced in a statement.

BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin will launch a new initiative called AI Fight Club later this year, a competitive simulation platform designed to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) systems for defense applications under Department of Defense (DoD)-aligned conditions, the company announced in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan. Embedded computing firm DFI introduced a new uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platform built around its QRB812 system-on-module (SoM), designed to Open Standard Module (OSM) specifications and integrated into a field-tested drone airframe, the company announced in a statement.

PHOENIX, Arizona. L3Harris Technologies chose Honeywell to support development of the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) system for the EA-18G Growler aircraft, Honeywell announced in a statement.

GRAND FORKS, North Dakota. DeTect Inc. is collaborating with the University of North Dakota (UND) and the North Dakota Air and Army National Guard to conduct a series of joint counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) training exercises, the company announced in a statement.

CHANDLER, Arizona. Northrop Grumman launched two GQM-163A supersonic sea-skimming target vehicles from the Hebrides Launch Facility in Scotland as part of NATO’s 2025 Formidable Shield exercise, the company announced in a statement.