Military Embedded Systems

PLYMOUTH, United Kingdom. Thales delivered the first autonomous mine hunting system to the Royal Navy under the Franco-British Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Anduril Industries won a $642 million, 10-year contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to deliver and sustain Installation-Counter small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (I-CsUAS), the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. BlueHalo conducted a live fire demonstration of its Freedom Eagle-1 (FE-1) Next-Generation Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System (C-UAS) Missile, marking a milestone for the program, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed its first series of flight tests for the Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) uncrewed aerial system (UAS) using a Proliferated Low Earth Orbit (PLEO) satellite constellation for communications, the company announced in a statement.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Collins Aerospace received approval to begin full-rate production of the Mounted Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Generation II system (MAPS Gen II) for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales delivered Ku-band Dual Travelling Wave Tubes (Dual-TWTs) for the ASTRA 1Q satellite, which was built by Thales Alenia Space for global content and connectivity provider SES, the company announced in a statement.

ASHBURN, Virginia. Curtiss-Wright won a $50 million firm-fixed-price Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to supply high-speed data acquisition systems and repair services for the Special Flight Test Instrumentation Pool, the company announced in a statement.

STRATFORD, Connecticut. Sikorsky flew a rotor blown wing uncrewed aerial system (UAS) in both helicopter and airplane flight modes, the company announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems won $29 million in contracts to provide mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) technology for a new multinational maritime security initiative in the Baltic Sea region, the company announced in a statement.

VIENNA, Austria. The European Defence Agency (EDA) chose Schiebel’s Camcopter S-100 unmanned aerial system (UAS) for its “Autonomous Systems for Cross-Domain Logistics (Air and Land)” program under the Hub for European Defence Innovation (HEDI), the company announced in a statement.

ASHBURN, Virginia. Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions Division won an $18 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)-based tactical communications technology for the Combat Data Network (CDN) program, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. The UK government signed a nearly £30 million contract with Anduril UK to supply Ukraine’s armed forces with Altius 600m and Altius 700m loitering munitions, the UK Ministry of Defence announced in a statement.

PETAH TIKVA, Israel. Gilat Satellite Networks won a $6 million contract to provide its SkyEdge II-c platform to an unnamed military organization in the Asia-Pacific region, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. The U.S. Air Force designated General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.'s (GA-ASI) Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) prototype as the YFQ-42A, the company announced in a statement.

DENVER, Colorado. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) and Integrated Solutions for Systems (IS4S), in collaboration with AEVEX Aerospace, completed flight tests for the Resilient-Embedded GPS/INS (R-EGI) system, demonstrating its ability to provide reliable navigation in GPS-denied environments, the program office announced in a statement.

WINDSOR LOCKS, Connecticut. Collins Aerospace completed testing of its Enhanced Power and Cooling System (EPACS), a power and thermal management system (PTMS) the company is pitching to replace the existing PTMS on the F-35, according to a company statement.

BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin, Nokia, and Verizon are teaming up to develop a 5G solution for military users, integrating Nokia’s 5G technology into Lockheed Martin’s 5G.MIL Hybrid Base Station (HBS), with the goal of enhancing interoperability between commercial 5G networks and military communication systems, the companies announced in a statement.

KONGSBERG, Norway. Kongsberg Discovery completed acceptance testing for the HUGIN Superior autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), marking a milestone in its contract with the U.S. Navy and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), the company announced in a statement.

MCLEAN, Virginia. HII’s Mission Technologies division won a five-year, $70 million task order to support the U.S. Air Force in securing its systems and software against cyber threats, the company announced in a statement.

MUNICH, Germany. Rohde & Schwarz won a contract from ELT Group to supply electronic warfare (EW) components for the German Navy's F124 Sachsen-class frigates and the Polish Navy's Miecznick-class multirole frigates, the company announced in a statement.