Military Embedded Systems

ORLANDO, Florida. The U.S. Army chose Bohemia Interactive Simulations’ Virtual Battlespace 4 (VBS4) to enhance its Games for Training (GFT) program, upgrading the service’s primary game-based simulation platform under a contract modification, the company announced in a statement.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri. WingXpand won multiple new contracts from U.S. Special Operations Command, the Army, the Navy, and civil agencies to deliver smart uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) with expanded mission adaptability and onboard intelligence, the company announced in a statement.

CANNES, France. GovSat, a joint venture between the Luxembourg government and satellite operator SES, awarded a contract to Thales Alenia Space for the development and delivery of a new geostationary defense communications satellite, the company announced in a statement.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems will supply its J-MUSIC directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM) system for installation on Germany’s A400M military transport aircraft under a $260 million contract with Airbus Defence and Space, the company announced in a statement.

ANKARA, Turkey. Defense software and systems company HAVELSAN signed a memorandum of understanding with Turkish shipbuilder CEMRE Shipyard to begin co-development of a production-ready version of the ÇAKA Hybrid Unmanned Surface Vehicle (H-USV), the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Egypt of the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) and associated equipment for an estimated $4.67 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. HENSOLDT won a contract exceeding €340 million to supply multiple TRML-4D and SPEXER 2000 3D MkIII radar systems to support Ukraine’s air defense capabilities, the company announced in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan. 7STARLAKE introduced the SK901-AD5000, a rugged 3U OpenVPX general-purpose GPU (GPGPU) card designed for high-performance embedded computing applications in defense environments, the company announced in a statement.

ISTANBUL, Turkey. The governments of Turkey and the United Kingdom signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding the potential acquisition of Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft by Turkey, Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Denmark will acquire four MQ-9B SkyGuardian uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), along with three ground control stations, the company announced in a statement.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Saab received a contract from the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces of the Czech Republic to deliver its Mobile Short Range Air Defence (MSHORAD) system, the company announced in a statement.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida. Redwire was selected by Earth observation company DeepSat to provide digital engineering services in support of a planned satellite constellation operating in very low Earth orbit (VLEO), the company announced in a statement.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida. Two O3b mPOWER satellites built by Boeing for SES launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and are now en route to medium Earth orbit (MEO), the company announced in a statement.

VIENNA, Austria. The CAMCOPTER S-100 uncrewed aerial system (UAS) from Schiebel participated in the European Defence Agency’s (EDA) inaugural Operational Experimentation (OPEX) campaign, demonstrating cross-domain logistics missions in a simulated operational environment, the company announced in a statement.

CARLSBAD, California. Viasat was selected by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to prototype and demonstrate communications technologies for the Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA) initiative, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies received a $300 million contract from the Italian Ministry of Defence to deliver two Gulfstream G550 aircraft configured for airborne electronic warfare, the company announced in a statement.

HAMPTON, Virginia. NASA is testing a modular small satellite platform designed to accelerate deployment of spaceborne sensors and reduce mission costs, the agency announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Indra Group and Bittium signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of software-defined radio (SDR) technologies for military tactical communications, the companies announced in a joint statement.

IRVINE, California. Anduril Industries won a $99.6 million Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement from the U.S. Army to deliver a prototype for the service’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) program, the company announced in a statement.

PHOENIX, Arizona. Honeywell has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to participate in the Transition of Quantum Sensing (TQS) program, the company announced in a statement.