Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON, D.C. The U.S. Army is overhauling its acquisition process with a model that resemblles Silicon Valley in order to cut procurement timelines from years to weeks and contract directly with startup firms to deliver new technologies to soldiers, Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll announced Monday during his keynote at the AUSA 2025 conference.

WESTBOROUGH, Massachusetts. Kopin Corporation will showcase its latest soldier-worn augmented reality (AR) technologies during the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The L-SPIKE 4X launched effect, a loiter-capable member of the SPIKE missile family designed for engagements out to 40 kilometers and compatible with legacy SPIKE NLOS launchers on air, land and naval platforms, will be shown at the AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Leonardo DRS announced that it earned first place in a Department of Defense counter-drone competition after demonstrating a new electronic warfare system designed to detect and neutralize small uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Anduril will display a new system and several existing technologies at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting & Exposition next week, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Axon Vision will showcase its artificial intelligence-based counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition, the company announced in a statement.

MONTVILLE, New Jersey. Marotta Controls will supply a static inverter for Bell Textron’s MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA), the company announced in a statement.

A new General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) vehicle powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and designed in line with the modular open systems approach (MOSA) could serve as the “quarterback” of the Marine Corps’ future mobile reconnaissance battalions, according to a GDLS official involved with the program.

An Army radar detects incoming missiles while a Navy ship simultaneously tracks the same threats and an Air Force interceptor calculates engagement solutions. Within seconds, all three systems share data, coordinate responses, and execute a unified defense strategy without human operators manually relaying information between branches. This level of integration represents the end goal of Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2); achieving this level of connection requires fundamentally rethinking how military systems communicate in hostile environments.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Ultra I&C will showcase a suite of command and control technologies at the 2025 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Expo, including its Knox multifunction processors, Maxwell artificial intelligence (AI) agent, and Apex orchestration platform, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. One Stop Systems (OSS) plans to display its newest high-performance computing and storage systems at the 2025 Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition, the company announced.

WASHINGTON, D.C. EarlyBirds will unveil its Defense Innovation Platform at the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) 2025 Annual Meeting, highlighting how its tools can accelerate capability development across the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, and Marine Corps, the company announced in a statement.

NORWOOD, Massachusetts. Analog Devices introduced two new six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) inertial measurement units (IMUs), the ADIS16545 and ADIS16547, designed to deliver tactical-grade performance for applications traditionally served by fiber optic gyros, the company announced in a statement.

ROCHESTER, New York. Safran Federal Systems won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Robust Quantum Sensor (RoQS) program, which aims to develop positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities for Global Positioning System (GPS)-denied environments, the company announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems won a $34 million order from the U.S. Army to provide Wave Relay mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) devices for the Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype, the company announced in a statement.

LYSTRUP, Denmark. Terma announced the deployment of an integrated counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) solution across multiple strategic sites in Denmark to protect critical infrastructure and military facilities, the company announced in a statement.

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom. Blighter Surveillance Systems won a follow-on contract from a Southeast Asian military customer to provide B400 series mobile surveillance radars for border security operations, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a 10-year, single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued at $499 million from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for the High-Performance Electromagnetic Spectrum Survivable Materials Advancement (HELMSSMAN) program, the company announced in a statement.

OSHKOSH, Wisconsin. The U.S. Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal awarded Oshkosh Defense an $89 million order for Palletized Load System (PLS) A2 vehicles, kits, and installs under the Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV) V contract, the company announced in a statement.

WATERLOO, Canada. Pixus Technologies released a new line of 3U OpenVPX air transport rack (ATR) enclosures designed for use with 3U OpenVPX and boards aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.