Military Embedded Systems

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) acquired a portfolio of patents and intellectual property from San Diego-based Achates Power, Inc., the company announced in a statement.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas. Airbus U.S. Space & Defense and Shield AI completed an autonomous helicopter test flight using the H145 platform integrated with Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software, Shield AI announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions released two new XMC form factor video graphics and AI coprocessor cards that use NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 2000 and RTX PRO 500 Blackwell GPUs, the company announced in a statement.

READING, England. Operational Solutions Ltd. (OSL) won a contract valued at up to NOK 938 million (USD 91 million) from the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency to supply counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities, the company announced in a statement.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri. Q-Net Security received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop secure communication technologies for tactical edge operations, the company announced in a statement.

BYDGOSZCZ, Poland. The Polish Ministry of National Defence finalized a Letter of Offer and Acceptance with the U.S. government to upgrade its 48 F-16 Block 52+ aircraft to the F-16 Viper (F-16V) configuration, Lockheed Martin announced in a statement.

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts. Kopin Corporation won a follow-on production contract valued at approximately $9 million to supply custom thermal imaging assemblies for a U.S. defense prime contractor, the company announced in a statement.

CHATSWORTH, California. Aitech released its A230 Vortex AI general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) supercomputer, designed to deliver artificial intelligence capabilities at the edge for military applications across sea, land, air, and space environments, the company announced in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan. Rohde & Schwarz developed and delivered an integrated satellite test solution to the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) that combines electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and antenna measurement capabilities in a single chamber, the company announced in a statement.

KOUROU, French Guiana. The first satellite in Europe’s MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG) program, MetOp-SG A1, launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, the European Space Agency announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS completed its first open-water demonstration of a maritime Mission Equipment Package (MEP) designed for counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) operations from small uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), the company announced in a statement.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. Northrop Grumman and U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) integrated multiple ground-based antennas at the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 1 in Western Australia, the company announced in a statement.

PETAH TIKVA, Israel. Gilat Satellite Networks won a multimillion-dollar contract from Israel’s Ministry of Defense to deliver and integrate satellite communications (SATCOM) systems, the company announced in a statement.

EVERETT, Washington. DARPA held a christening ceremony for the USX-1 Defiant, an autonomous unmanned surface vessel (USV) built under the No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) program, the agency announced in a statement.

MANILA, Philippines. Lockheed Martin will expand their industrial collaboration in the Philippines’ Multi-Role Fighter program that includes a partnership with Southern Methodist University (SMU) to advance digital innovation, intellectual property creation, and workforce development, the company announced in a statement.

ANKARA, Türkiye. HAVELSAN is integrating its Corporate Artificial Intelligence Platform (MAIN) into the ADVENT Network-Enabled Data Integrated Combat Management System to enhance naval maintenance and operational decision-making, the company announced in a statement.

VILNIUS, Lithuania. Embraer Defense Europe signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with eight Lithuanian organizations to expand cooperation in aerospace, defense, and technology development, the company announced in a statement.

GROTON, Connecticut. ThayerMahan's Bluebottle uncrewed surface vessel (USV) platform is being acquired for use by Australia’s Maritime Border Command (MBC) and Royal Australian Navy to expand surveillance and patrol coverage, the company announced in a statement.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida. Redwire’s subsidiary Edge Autonomy won a prototype contract from the U.S. Army to provide its Stalker uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) for evaluation under the Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) program, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. BAE Systems made an equity investment in Oxford Dynamics, a UK-based startup focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, as part of a strategy to accelerate the integration of emerging technologies into defense systems, the company announced in a statement.