Military Embedded Systems

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Sea-Air-Space 2026 will bring together senior military leaders, policymakers, and defense industry representatives to examine how the sea services are preparing for future conflict, with a program centered on readiness, modernization, and the integration of emerging technologies across naval operations, according to event materials.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. U.S. Navy leaders are set to discuss readiness, modernization, and warfighting integration during a keynote panel at Sea-Air-Space 2026, scheduled for April 20, the event organizers announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. HII will present its shipbuilding, uncrewed maritime systems, and mission technologies portfolio at the Sea-Air-Space 2026 exposition, the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Kongsberg will present a range of maritime defense technologies, including missile systems, autonomous underwater vehicles, sonar, and radar, at the Sea-Air-Space 2026 exhibition, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. TKMS and Navantia signed a memorandum of understanding to explore cooperation on naval shipbuilding projects across Europe, NATO, and other markets, the companies announced in a statement.

WOOD DALE, Illinois. AAR won an approximately $305 million follow-on contract to provide contractor logistics support for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps C-40A fleet, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The U.S. Marine Corps conducted shipboard testing of the TRV-150C Tactical Resupply Unmanned Aircraft System aboard a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock to assess ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship resupply for Combat Logistics Battalions, the service announced in a statement.

EVANDALE, Ohio. Open standards such as IEEE 802.1 time-sensitive networking are a key part of the “digital backbone” GE Aerospace sees as critical to future vertical lift aircraft, enabling interoperability and faster technology upgrades, a company official said during a media briefing April 13.

LONDON, England. Babcock won a two-year extension to its Future Maritime Support Programme contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defence to continue fleet and infrastructure support for Royal Navy surface ships, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Massa Products Corporation will present its electroacoustic and ultrasonic technologies at the Sea-Air-Space 2026 maritime exposition, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Raytheon demonstrated an event-based mid-wave infrared (MWIR) camera designed to track high-speed objects in real time with reduced processing and power requirements, the company announced in a statement.

PACIFIC OCEAN. The Ecuadorian and U.S. navies carried out a bilateral maritime engagement on April 7-8 during U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet’s Southern Seas 2026 deployment, the U.S. Navy announced in a statement.

MCLEAN, Virginia. Booz Allen Hamilton, through its venture capital arm Booz Allen Ventures, invested in Portal Space Systems, a company developing maneuverable spacecraft for orbital operations, the company announced in a statement.

WARTON, England. BAE Systems completed a test firing of a low-cost precision weapon from a Eurofighter Typhoon to examine its use against threats from uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions won a $446.8 million Other Transaction Agreement from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to support the Ground Management and Integration effort for the Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program, the company announced in a statement.

STERLING HEIGHTS, Michigan. General Dynamics Land Systems won a $450 million agreement from the U.S. Marine Corps for the Pre-Production Development phase of the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle competition, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies won a $150 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to sustain and modernize ground systems under the Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities program, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Abaco Systems introduced the VP892, a rugged 3U VPX field-programmable gate array processing card aimed at real-time defense, communications, and industrial workloads, the company announced in a statement.

CANBERRA, Australia. Australia is supporting Canada’s effort to develop an Arctic over-the-horizon radar system, with the Jindalee Operational Radar Network set to inform the first stage of the program, Australia’s Defence Department announced in a statement.

SLIDELL, Louisiana. Textron Systems won a $450 million Pre-Production Development agreement from the U.S. Marine Corps for the Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle program, the company announced in a statement.