Military Embedded Systems

FOREST, Mississippi. Raytheon has completed a $50 million, 17,000-square-foot expansion of its Forest manufacturing facility to increase production capacity for electronic warfare and radar systems, the company announced in a statement.

GOLETA, California. Teledyne FLIR OEM was selected to support the U.S. Army's Delivering Unmatched Thermal Capability Hastened (DUTCH) initiative to develop uncooled thermal infrared sensing technology for defense applications, the company announced in a statement.

EAST AURORA, New York. Moog and Voltaic Marine demonstrated the integration of Moog's Reconfigurable Integrated-weapons Platform (RIwP) turret aboard Voltaic Marine's AEU39 uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) during the U.S. Navy's Coastal Trident Demo, Moog announced in a statement.

OSLO, Norway. Patria will supply Norway with 20 Patria 6x6 armored vehicles in command-and-control configurations under the multinational Common Armoured Vehicle System (CAVS) program, the company announced in a statement.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. Destinus won a contract from the Netherlands Ministry of Defence to develop and integrate its Hornet B2 kinetic counter-uncrewed aerial system (counter-UAS) interceptor with Royal Netherlands Navy warships, the company announced in a statement.

KITCHENER, Canada. Pixus Technologies has released the SHM300-20, a Tier 3 chassis management card in a 3U OpenVPX slot-pluggable form factor aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.

ATHENS, Greece. AeroVironment will establish a defense-industry presence in Greece through AV Eagle, a joint venture with Athens-based Eyeonix SA that is expected to support future production of uncrewed and counter-uncrewed systems, the company announced in a statement.

KONGSBERG, Norway. Kongsberg signed a NOK 1.1 billion contract with General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada to supply PROTECTOR RS4 Remote Weapon Systems for the Canadian Army's Armoured Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV) program, the company announced in a statement.

BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin and Saildrone launched two Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) rounds from a Saildrone Surveyor-class uncrewed surface vessel (USV) during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2026 near Hawaii, Lockheed Martin announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C.  The Department of the Navy is working to establish a clearer set of minimum expectations for how acquisition programs implement a modular open systems approach (MOSA), with the goal of making open architectures a more consistent part of how the service develops and upgrades systems, a Navy official said during the Military Embedded Systems MOSA Summer Virtual Summit on Aug. 19.

SAN DIEGO, California. A U.S. Marine Corps XQ-58A Valkyrie Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) demonstrated electronic warfare (EW) capabilities and beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) command and control during a flight test in Southern California, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced in a statement.

CLIFTON, New Jersey. L3Harris Technologies was selected by the government of Peru to provide its Viper Shield electronic warfare (EW) system for the country's F-16 Block 70 aircraft program, the company announced in a statement.

CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada. Anduril's YFQ-44A Collaborative Combat Aircraft prototype completed a second exercise with the U.S. Air Force Experimental Operations Unit (EOU), expanding Air Force personnel involvement in mission execution and autonomy testing, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. Northrop Grumman completed a government-led critical design review for the Block II upgrade to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft, clearing the modernization effort to enter integration and testing, the company announced in a statement.

HOUSTON, Texas. KBR won a five-year NATO contract with an initial ceiling of $60 million to support the PATRIOT air and missile defense system and its integration with the Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS), the company announced in a statement.

CARLSBAD, California. Viasat selected Rocket Lab to build the satellite bus for a small geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellite supporting the U.S. Space Force Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global (PTS-G) program, the company announced in a statement.

LYSTRUP, Denmark. Terma entered into an agreement to acquire Danish cybersecurity company Dencrypt A/S, which develops end-to-end encrypted communications technology for defense, government, critical infrastructure, and commercial users, the company announced in a statement.

CANBERRA, Australia. Northrop Grumman, the U.S. Navy, and the Royal Australian Air Force are working to integrate the MQ-4C Triton autonomous surveillance aircraft into Australian maritime operations, the company announced in a statement.

COCHSTEDT, Germany. Rheinmetall launched its FV-014 loitering munition from a containerized launcher mounted on an HX truck during stationary and moving tests, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions introduced the Condor T5-IOX, a 3U VPX single-board computer (SBC) for artificial intelligence (AI) processing at the tactical edge aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.