Military Embedded Systems

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia. Northrop Grumman and Aeronix launched a multimillion-dollar partnership to develop space-based cryptographic systems for secure defense communications, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS demonstrated software updates enabling its fielded SGT STOUT air-defense system to defeat Group 1 and Group 2 small uncrewed aerial system (UAS) threats during a U.S. government test event, the company announced in a statement.

BERLIN, Germany. Patria and KNDS Deutschland Maintenance signed a framework agreement covering assembly and final integration of Patria 6x6 armored personnel carriers for Germany under the multinational Common Armoured Vehicles (CAVS) program, the company announced in a statement.

DUSSELDORF, Germany. Boeing and Rheinmetall are proposing the MQ-28 Ghost Bat as a platform for Germany to develop Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) capabilities for air-to-ground and air-to-air operations, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Collins Aerospace received a U.S. Army contract worth up to $472 million to provide engineering services supporting modernization and sustainment of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter fleet, the company announced in a statement.

PORTSMOUTH, Rhode Island. Raytheon and Composite Energy Technologies demonstrated the submerged launch capability of HADALUS, a 34-foot unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV), during a U.S. Navy exercise, Raytheon announced in a statement.

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is a suite of standards that adds mathematical timing guarantees to standard Ethernet, enabling deterministic and best-effort traffic (or traffic that has no guarantees) to share the same network without one interfering with the other. What makes this year different from the years before? TSN is moving out of the lab: The military and aerospace use profile for TSN has been standardized and is now showing up in program specifications as a flow-down requirement. Vendors, in response, are delivering hardware.

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea. U.S. Marines completed the service’s first series of live-fire first-person-view attack drone flights in South Korea using Neros Archer systems for anti-armor and antipersonnel strikes, the Marine Corps announced in a statement.

PETAH TIKVA, Israel. Gilat Satellite Networks demonstrated an artificial intelligence (AI)-based signal-processing technology designed to detect and cancel interference affecting satellite communications links, the company announced in a statement.

EDMONDS, Washington. wolfSSL introduced seven developments extending post-quantum cryptography and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 support across embedded, Linux, networking, virtualization, and satellite systems, the company announced in a statement.

SWINDON, United Kingdom. TEKEVER was selected by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence for a contract worth up to £400 million over 10 years to provide the British Army with an AR5-based surveillance capability known as CORVUS, the company announced in a statement.

TAIPEI, Taiwan. Shield AI and Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated a coordinated search mission involving three Mighty Hornet III uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) controlled by artificial intelligence (AI), the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Northrop Grumman and Boeing demonstrated automated mission coordination between the uncrewed MQ-4C Triton and crewed P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft using artificial intelligence (AI) and an open-systems architecture, Northrop Grumman announced in a statement.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida. Mistral Inc., an Ondas company, received a U.S. Army order worth more than $50 million for tactical lethal uncrewed systems under a previously awarded $982 million multiyear contract, the company announced in a statement.

NOVI, Michigan. The Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering and Technology Symposium (GVSETS) will bring together military, industry, academic, and international representatives from Aug. 11 through 13 to discuss ground vehicle technologies and engineering, the organization announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is expanding an online marketplace designed to help military organizations, law enforcement agencies, and international partners evaluate and acquire validated counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) technologies, the department announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. Cyabra received a multiyear, six-figure contract to provide an Asia-Pacific intelligence agency with an artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform for monitoring online information dissemination and coordinating operations to influence that information, the company announced in a statement.

MARIGNANE, France. Airbus Helicopters delivered the first NH90 Standard 2 helicopter to the French Armament General Directorate for special-operations missions, the company announced in a statement.

WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany. Rheinmetall won a contract to modernize the German Navy’s F123-class frigate Bayern and extend its operational service life until at least 2035, the company announced in a statement.

SINGAPORE. The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) selected Thales to develop a next-generation air traffic management system and deploy new air traffic control radars, the company announced in a statement.