Military Embedded Systems

HARLEYSVILLE, Pennsylvania. AMETEK PDS unveiled the AR-FS-20 series of tactical booster amplifiers, designed to enhance communication speed and reliability for military and tactical operations, the company announced in a statement.

BINGEN, Washington. Insitu Inc. won a $102,353,293 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to procure additional RQ-21A Blackjack and ScanEagle uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), the company announced in a statement.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB) signed an agreement with Spain-based Indra to equip the FA-400 offshore patrol vessel with advanced radar, electronic warfare, and counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities, the companies announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and CAE signed a long-term agreement for the development and production of next-generation mission trainers for the MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS), GA-ASI announced in a statement.

BONN, Germany. Rheinmetall won a contract from the Bundeswehr to supply the Distributed Naval Training Architecture (VTAM), a networked simulation-based operational training system for the German Navy, the company announced in a statement.

BOSTON, Massachusetts. Teledyne FLIR Defense’s Black Hornet 4 Personal Reconnaissance System won a spot on the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Blue UAS Refresh program, the company announced in a statement.

MCLEAN, Virginia. BAE Systems has been awarded a five-year, $251 million contract to provide systems engineering and technical support for the U.S. Navy’s AEGIS Combat System, the company announced in a statement.

ONTARIO, Canada. Pixus Technologies introduced a new C5ISR Modular Suite of Standards, or CMOSS, and Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard aligned development backplane designed to support a range of I/O intensive and compute-intensive applications, the company announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. Hensoldt won a contract extension worth approximately 350 million euros for further development of the Eurofighter Mk1 radar, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS won a contract of more than $7 million to supply and integrate C4I Battle Management System (BMS) hardware and software into the Royal Thailand Army’s newly acquired Stryker combat vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Helsing will manufacture 6,000 HX-2 strike drones for Ukraine, following a previous delivery of 4,000 HF-1 drones produced in partnership with Ukrainian industry, the company announced in a statement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. The Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) ordered 17 CH-47JA Block II Chinook Extended Range helicopters to modernize its fleet, with production to be carried out jointly by Boeing and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), Boeing announced in a statement.

REDMOND, Washington. Anduril Industries and Microsoft expanded their partnership to support the next phase of the U.S. Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) program, with Anduril taking on oversight of production, future hardware and software development, and delivery timelines, the companies announced in a statement.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico. Raytheon’s Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) detected and tracked a high-speed cruise missile and guided a Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) Guidance Enhanced Missile-T (GEM-T) to intercept the target in a live-fire test, the company announced in a statement.

Every second, military radar systems collect terabytes of data about potential threats in the skies above. But having data isn’t the same as having intelligence. In an age of information overflow, the U.S. Department of Defense faces a new kind of challenge: turning this tsunami of radar data into actionable battlefield insights.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won contracts totaling approximately $100 million to provide a Joint National Digital Fire Command Center (JNDFC) for a European country, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a contract from the Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) to supply its JUMP 20 medium uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) to the Danish Armed Forces, the company announced in a statement. The contract, valued at up to $181 million, will span 10 years as part of Denmark’s tactical UAS program of record.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Airbus won a contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to design and build two Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites under the Oberon program, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales delivered the first serial production autonomous drone system for mine countermeasures to the French Navy under the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) program, the company announced in a statement.

OSLO, Norway. Patria delivered new SONAC ACS acoustic minesweeping systems to the Royal Norwegian Navy recently, which began operating the system last spring, the company announced in a statement.