Military Embedded Systems

EAST AURORA, New York. Astronics Test Systems has been awarded a five-year, $40 million contract to produce portable radio test equipment for the U.S. Marine Corps' Handheld Radio Test Sets program (HHRTS), the company announced in a statement.

PUNE, India. A new report predicts that the global military drone market will soar from $9.3 billion in 2020 to $21.93 billion by 2029 for a compound annual growth rate of 12.56% over the next six years.

DENVER, Colorado. York Space Systems has made first contact with all eight of its satellites launched as part of the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche 0 (T0) of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is partnering with Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) to explore using HAV's Airlander aircraft to help with maritime logistics, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) operations, and communications in the Pacific, HAV said in a statement.

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. Engineers at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) are testing the U.S. Navy's current fleet of aerial refueling store pods for compatibility with the new MQ-25 Stingray air-to-air refueling tanker in an effort to save money, Naval Air Systems Command said in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales will supply next-generation primary and secondary approach radars to French air and naval bases by 2025, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. CAES has won a contract from the U.S. Navy for the initial pre-production phase of the AN-ALQ-99 low band consolidation (LBC) transmitter, the company announced in a statement.

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2023--NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. The U.S. Navy's 85-foot uncrewed submarine -- the Orca extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle (XLUUV) -- is now scheduled to be forward-deployed by fiscal 2026, a Navy unmanned systems program manager told attendees of the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space symposium on Tuesday.

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2023--NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. The U.S. Navy is exploring how ship-based radar systems can be further shrunk to accommodate uncrewed systems, and a modular approach is helping them to do that, a Navy official said at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space exhibition on Monday.

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2023--NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. The U.S. Navy has focused heavily over the past year on developing future fleet concepts that involve teams of manned and unmanned assets as part of a "hybrid fleet" where drones play an increasingly important role in the sea service, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Michael Gilday said at the Navy League's annual Sea-Air-Space exposition on Monday.

LONDON, United Kingdom. The British Army is experimenting with future urban combat operations concepts that involve having a drone operator that assists the combat team, according to a statement from the UK Ministry of Defence.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) recently used an MQ-9A uncrewed aerial system (UAS) to support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command (MAGTFTC) during an exercise, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Babcock has won a one-year contract extension to continue support for the U.K. implementation of the U.S. Integrated Broadcast Service, an initiative known as Skysiren, the company announced in a statement.

TUCSON, Arizona. Raytheon Technologies has won a $619 million contract to produce AN/SPY-6(V) radars for the U.S. Navy, the second option exercised from a March 2022 contract valued at up to $3 billion over five years, the company announced in a statement.

YUMA, Arizona. The U.S. Army's Joint Counter-Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) recently tested BAE Systems’ Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) for a counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) mission, the company said in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Lockheed Martin and a Raytheon-Northrop Grumman team have both won contracts from the U.S. Army to develop their designs for the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 4 program, according to statements from both companies.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies has reached an agreement with the U.S. Army to collaborate on the implementation of the Army's Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for the service's ground combat vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

VIENNA, Austria. Thales has won a contract from the Austrian Ministry of Defense to provide 2,500 tactical radios to support the Austrian army, the second "significant" European order after Belgium, the company announced in a statement.

PRINCETON, New Jersey. SciTec Inc. has won a $45.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force for continued development of a ground system framework responsible for collecting and processing data gathered by satellites for missile warning, missile defense, battlespace awareness, and technical intelligence, the company announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. The global low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite market is expected to grow by $7.1 billion from 2022 to 2027, according to a new report from Technavio.