Military Embedded Systems

EL SEGUNDO, California. Pacific Defense introduced its SABER product line of multi-function electronic warfare and signals intelligence (EW/SIGINT) systems, beginning with the EWS1090VP, a 9-slot 3U OpenVPX platform designed for modular deployment across multi-domain missions, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. RTX and Shield AI entered a strategic partnership to integrate Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy system into RTX defense platforms, including loitering munitions and sensor suites, the companies announced in a statement.

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. The U.S. Navy, in coordination with Skydweller Aero, completed a three-day continuous flight of a solar-powered uncrewed aerial system (UAS) during recent testing at Stennis, Mississippi, the service announced in a statement.

PETAH TIKVA, Israel. Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. won a contract worth more than $8 million from Israel’s Ministry of Defense to provide satellite communication (SATCOM) systems and services for military operations, the company announced in a statement.

MINERAL WELLS, Texas. The U.S. Air Force chose Moog Inc.’s Genesys Avionics Suite for its T-6A Texan II Avionics Replacement Program, the company announced in a statement.

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.