Military Embedded Systems

FORT WORTH, Texas. Elbit Systems of America won a $212 million delivery order to produce Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) systems for the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. Skyborne Technologies received a U.S. Department of War Limited Safety Release for its CODiAQ armed unmanned ground system under a $6.5 million research, development, test, and evaluation contract supporting U.S. Special Operations Command evaluations, the company announced in a statement.

SOLANA BEACH, California. AEVEX Corp. will display autonomous systems, launched effects, airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), and related mission technologies during SOF Week 2026 in Tampa, the company announced in a statement.

BALABAC ISLAND, Philippines. U.S. and allied special operations and reconnaissance forces took part in maritime security training during Exercise Balikatan 2026 in the Philippines, including reconnaissance, airfield seizure, and crisis-response activities, the U.S. military announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment’s LOCUST high-energy laser system completed a counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in coordination with Joint Interagency Task Force 401 and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company announced in a statement.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California. Northrop Grumman’s XRQ-73 hybrid-electric uncrewed aircraft has started flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base in California for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the company announced in a statement.

HAWTHORNE, California. ThinKom Solutions won the Space Systems Command’s “Fight Tonight” competition for its Containerized Digital Array transportable satellite communications ground station, the company announced in a statement.

Across the U.S. military and allied forces, rotary-wing avionics are being rebuilt from the inside out: new architectures, smarter sensors, and software-defined systems designed to keep pace with threats that evolve faster than hardware-refresh cycles can keep up with.

TAMPA, Florida. Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, tactical communications, electronic warfare, counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) technologies, and acquisition pathways for small businesses will be among the major themes at SOF Week 2026 as U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) brings operators, government leaders, partner nations, and industry together in Tampa, according to event organizers.

CHANTILLY, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems’ GPS Source subsidiary won a three-year, $17 million contract for prototyping, demonstration, and testing of the NorthStar positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) Hub for the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

COSTA MESA, California. Anduril is leading a group of industry partners under contract to develop, test, and deliver space-based interceptor systems for the U.S. Space Force’s Space-Based Interceptor program as part of the Golden Dome for America initiative, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a U.S. Army prototype agreement for the Low-Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program to support development, delivery, and testing of its Switchblade 400 loitering munition, the company announced in a statement.

BINGEN, Washington. Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary, will provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) services to the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and other U.S. government customers using its ScanEagle and Integrator uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platforms under a contractor-owned, contractor-operated model, the company announced in a statement.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois. Northrop Grumman won a U.S. Army contract for second-phase development of its Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS), which is intended to support aircraft threat detection and survivability, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite is now operational after completing its in-orbit commissioning phase, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Lockheed Martin has been selected by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to develop capabilities for the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) program, the company announced in a statement.

CHANTILLY, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems won a $19 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to finish qualification and pre-production readiness work for the Next Generation Survival Radio (NGSR), the company announced in a statement.

FORT WORTH, Texas. Elbit America received a U.S. Army contract to develop and test the Binocular Night Observation Device and establish a path for future production orders, the company announced in a statement.

BLANDFORD, United Kingdom. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and the U.K. Ministry of Defence completed a demonstration showing F-35 data sharing with the U.K. NEXUS command-and-control environment and British Army ground effectors, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment plans to build Halo_Shield, a counter-uncrewed aerial system designed to detect, track, identify, and defeat airborne threats including small drones, drone swarms, and subsonic cruise missiles, the company announced in a statement.