Military Embedded Systems

INDIA HARBOUR BEACH, Florida. NewSat has won an $18 million contract from the U.S. Army for the Global Tactical Advanced Communications System II (GTACS II), the company announced in a statement.

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Florida. U.S. Space Force has launched the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit-6 (SBIRS GEO-6) satellite, which will provide missile warning capabilities to the U.S. military.

DUBLIN, Ireland. A new report predicts that the global market for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ground control stations will soar from $637 million in 2022 to $806.4 million by 2026, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5% over that period.

MCLEAN, Virginia. Huntington Ingalls Indutries (HII) has won a $127 million contract to support research, development, test, and evaluation of emergency technologies on behalf of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, according to a company statement.

LEAWOOD, Kansas. Data infrastructure artificial intelligence company Torch.AI has won a five-year contract from the U.S. Navy to provide next-generation AI and data infrastructure software capabilities for the Navy's Digital Warfare Office (DWO), the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Defense communications, networking, and computing solutions provider Fuse Integration has announced that, under Raytheon Missiles & Defense, they are entering into a formal DoD Mentor-Protégé agreement sponsored by the Missile Defense Agency Office of Small Business Programs.

DUBLIN, Ireland. A new report predicts that the air-based defense equipment global market will grow from $178.46 billion in 2021 to $246.42 billion in 2026, with artificial intelligence and big data analytics serving as big drivers of the growth.

HERNDON, Virginia. Peraton has won a contract worth $850 million to provide agile analytic platforms and data management solutions to the Department of Defense over the next five years, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies and Air Tractor have won a contract with a cost ceiling of $3 billion to provide 75 manned, fixed-wing aircraft to U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) to conduct irregular warfare and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions, L3Harris announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. The U.S. Air Force has chosen seven companies for the $762 million Visible Accessible Understandable Linked Trusted (VAULT) data platform contract, the Department of Defense announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Northrop Grumman has won a $3.3 billion contract from the Missile Defense Agency for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Weapon System (GWS), which is intended to defend against intermediate and intercontinental ballistic missile attacks, the company announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. The global C4ISR market will grow by $30.22 billion from 2020 to 2025 for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.15%, according to a new market research report from Technavio.

BERLIN, Germany. Diehl Defence and Elbit Systems signed a cooperation agreement for a protection system slated for German Armed Forces aircraft at the ILA Berlin International Air Show, Diehl said in a statement.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado. Ball Aerospace will conduct two 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program under a NASA contract, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully completed environmental testing of the onobard Argos-4 payload for its satellite in advance of a planned launch this fall, the company said in a statement.

LONG BEACH, California. Rocket Lab USA has been chosen to provide solar cell assemblies to power three Lockheed Martin missile warning satellites, according to a Rocket Lab statement.

ADELAIDE, Australia. Raytheon Intelligence & Space will upgrade Australian border surveillance aircraft with SeaVue Multi-Role radars under a contract with Cobham Special Mission, the company announced in a statement.

GREENBELT, Maryland. NASA has awarded two firms contracts for the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Spacecraft Phase A Study, which will be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for monitoring the ocean and the atmosphere, NASA announced in a statement.

STRATFORD, Connecticut. Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has delivered the third low-rate initial production (LRIP) CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter to the Marine Corps, the company announced in a statement.

MCLEAN, Virginia. HII's Mission Technologies division has won a task order from the Department of Defense's Chief Information Officer to provide assessments of the spectrum of invisible radio frequencies across technical, policy, and strategy areas, the company announced in a statement.