Military Embedded Systems

WILMINGTON, Massachusetts. Analog Devices Inc. released the ADIS16607, a miniature micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) inertial measurement unit (IMU) designed for navigation, stabilization, instrumentation, and uncrewed and autonomous vehicle applications, the company announced in a statement.

LA CIOTAT, France. Exail completed sea trials validating the integration of third-party payloads on its DriX O-16 unmanned surface vessel (USV), the company announced in a statement.

KYIV, Ukraine. Airbus Defence and Space signed a memorandum of understanding with Brave1, Ukraine’s government-led defense technology coordinator, to work on defense technology projects for Ukraine, the company announced in a statement.

SAN MARCOS, Texas. Helix Defense announced that its STING counter-small uncrewed aerial system (UAS) munition is available for deployment by military, law enforcement, and homeland security organizations, the company announced in a statement.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado. BAE Systems entered into an agreement to build high-resolution imaging satellite buses for Vantor’s Vantage 20 cm-class imaging satellites for defense and intelligence programs, the company announced in a statement.

ROCHESTER, New York. L3Harris Technologies received two Foreign Military Sales orders for Falcon communication systems to support German military communications requirements, the company announced in a statement.

DAVIDSON, North Carolina. As military ground vehicles add more radios, sensors, electronic warfare systems, assured-positioning, navigation, and timing equipment, artificial intelligence compute, and autonomy functions, power delivery and thermal management are becoming central integration challenges for vetronics suppliers, a Curtiss-Wright official told Military Embedded Systems.

ÇORLU, Türkiye. Leonardo and Baykar completed the first phase of live flight tests for the K-SWARM program, which is focused on crewed-uncrewed teaming between aircraft, the companies announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Shield AI completed its acquisition of Aechelon Technology, a company focused on simulation, physics-based sensor modeling, and synthetic environment technologies, the company announced in a statement.

HENGELO, Netherlands. Thales and the Netherlands Ministry of Defence signed a strategic partnership agreement to expand production, development, and test capacity for radar systems in Hengelo, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies delivered the VC-25B Bridge aircraft to the U.S. Air Force for use in the Air Force One fleet, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Indra Group and BAE Systems OneArc signed a Memorandum of Agreement to collaborate on simulation technologies for Spanish Army land vehicle programs, the company announced in a statement.

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia. HII provided field-support personnel for a multinational mine countermeasures exercise in New Zealand involving HII REMUS 300 unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and ODYSSEY autonomy software, the company announced in a statement.

SYMONSTON, Australia. Electro Optic Systems Holdings Limited secured a $124 million order for its Slinger counter-drone remote weapon system (RWS) for Generation 5 Holding L.L.C. in the United Arab Emirates, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. BAE Systems launched a new indirect fire-control system for artillery operations at Eurosatory, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Savox Communications launched Savox MissionCore, a mission platform intended to integrate voice, video, and data across battlefield networks, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited and Paramount unveiled the Simha 4x4 light armored multipurpose vehicle for armed forces in India, Africa, South Asia, and other markets, the companies announced in a statement.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts. MKS introduced the Ophir LightIR 15-75 mm f/1.2 long-wave infrared (LWIR) motorized continuous zoom lens for defense, homeland security, surveillance, and industrial thermal-imaging systems, the company announced in a statement.

BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France. Renault Group and Thales unveiled 4 TROOP, a prototype tactical vehicle for land forces that combines Renault vehicle architecture with Thales onboard communications, connectivity, and decision-support systems, the company announced in a statement.

Today’s combat vehicles are being redesigned around their electronics, not the other way around. The compute backbone, the sensor architecture, the data fabric linking systems across the formation: these are no longer features bolted on after the fact but are actually the platform. The companies supplying them are being asked to solve problems that look less like ruggedized hardware integration and more like building a real-time data center that has to operate under armor, in contested environments, and inside the power/thermal/shock/vibration limits of a combat vehicle.