Military Embedded Systems

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Shield AI is showcasing its ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) technology at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space symposium this week, highlighting advanced passive wide area search capabilities for maritime and land surveillance applications.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Advantech is displaying its industrial-grade SOM-5993 computer-on-module series at this year's Navy League Sea-Air-Space symposium, highlighting compact computing solutions designed to withstand harsh environments for military applications.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. An RTX official at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space symposium says that the Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) system is expected to achieve a full-rate production decision as early as May, just months after reaching its initial operational capability (IOC) milestone in December.

RESTON, Virginia. Leidos won a single-award contract from the National Security Agency (NSA) to deliver signals intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities and engineering support over a potential five-year period, the company announced in a statement.

VILNIUS, Lithuania. Kongsberg NanoAvionics signed a contract with SpinLaunch to supply 280 microsatellites for the company’s low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband communications constellation, the company announced in a statement.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil. The Panamanian National Air and Naval Service (SENAN) chose the A-29 Super Tucano aircraft from Embraer as its new platform for surveillance and border protection operations, the company announced in a statement.

HELSINKI, Finland. Norway and Denmark joined Finland and Sweden in a joint framework agreement for the procurement of military optronics from Finnish manufacturer Senop, according to a statement by parent company Patria.

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey. Lockheed Martin won a $15.8 million cost-plus fixed fee contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop a tactical electronic warfare (EW) software suite under the Ephemeral Paragon program, according to a U.S. government announcement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS unveiled a new ruggedized artificial intelligence processor designed to deliver real-time threat detection and mission computing capabilities to U.S. Army ground vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The Department of the Navy has authorized attendance for its military and civilian personnel at the upcoming Sea-Air-Space Symposium, to be held April 6–9, 2025, at National Harbor, Maryland, according to a statement from the Navy League of the United States, which hosts the event.

WATERLOO, Ontario. Pixus Technologies and COMINT Consulting are partnering to provide enhanced capabilities for ruggedized versions of Emerson's Ettus Research software-defined radios (SDRs), the companies announced in a statement.

RESTON, Virginia. CACI International signed a five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the United States Military Academy at West Point to jointly advance electronic warfare (EW) technologies, the company announced in a statement.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. GE Aerospace won a subcontract by Bell Textron to design and deliver avionics systems for the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Shield AI delivered its first ViDAR (Visual Detection and Ranging) payloads to NAVAIR’s Program Office for Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMA-263), where they will be fielded by the U.S. Marine Corps, the company announced in a statement.

RYGGE, Norway. Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services signed a contract with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency to provide long-term maintenance and upgrade support for Norway’s F-35 fighter aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

SANTIAGO, Chile. Havelsan signed an agreement with the Chilean Navy to provide its ADVENT Combat Management System (CMS) for the upgrade of two naval frigates, the company announced in a statement.

GEELONG, Australia. Airbus and Australian aerospace company Drone Forge signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to collaborate on the deployment and operational integration of the Flexrotor uncrewed aerial system (UAS) in the Asia-Pacific region, the companies announced in a statement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC) awarded Boeing a $240 million contract to remanufacture five additional MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS won a $16.9 million prototype project award from the U.S. Army to modernize the electric weapon control system on the M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzer, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. State Department approved a potential Foreign Military Sale to Qatar of MQ-9B uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) and associated equipment for an estimated $1.96 billion, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced in a statement.