Military Embedded Systems

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, California. Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Raider program is advancing through its flight test campaign and entering production, the company announced in a statement.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Companies displayed many different kinds of new technology in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and data storage at the Air & Space Forces Association’s annual Air, Space & Cyber Conference this week, demonstrating a clear trend in the industry toward finding innovative ways to use AI while handling all the data produced by today's systems.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Saab has delivered five Arthur systems, designated as TAIPAN by the British Army, which will provide advanced weapon locating radar capabilities, the company announced in a statement.

SYRACUSE, New York. Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force completed risk reduction testing for the TPY-4 radar, a key component of the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar (3DELRR) program, the company announced in a statement.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. L3Harris Technologies won a $182 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide advanced situational awareness capabilities via video data link technology, the company announced in a statement.

WIRRAL, United Kingdom. Safety- and mission-critical software testing firm LDRA announced in a statement that it has joined the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Consortium, The Open Group's vendor- and platform-agnostic forum for industry and government to collaboratively develop open standards and best practices.

NEW YORK, New York. The global military cybersecurity market will grow by $17.9 billion between 2024 and 2028, driven by the increasing adoption of cloud-based services and artificial intelligence (AI), a new report predicts.

YORK, Pennsylvania. BAE Systems won a $440 million contract to build more than 200 additional A4 variants of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle for the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Australia. Hanwha Defence Australia (HDC) chose Rohde & Schwarz to design and build an electromagnetic compatibility assurance (EMC) test solution for Australian armored vehicles, Rohde & Schwarz announced in a statement.

SYRACUSE, New York. The Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) will buy three additional TPY-4 ground-based multi-mission radars from Lockheed Martin, bringing the total number of units ordered to 11, the company announced in a statement.

DÜSSELDORF, Germany. Rheinmetall will expand its cooperation with ICEYE, a company specializing in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite operations, as part of a newly signed teaming agreement, Rheinmetall announced in a statement.

PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. L3 Technologies won a $587.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the engineering and manufacturing development of the Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ-LB) system, the Navy announced in a statement.

EL SEGUNDO, California. Sev1Tech won a $188 million contract from U.S. Space Systems Command (SSC) for the continued development of the meshONE-Terrestrial (meshONE-T) network, the command announced in a statement.

LONDON, England. Airbus Defence and Space and Rohde & Schwarz signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as part of an effort to enhance communication capabilities for the Royal Navy, the companies announced in a statement.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Exail has secured a contract with Precision Technic Defence A/S to provide its Advans Vega Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) for use in mobile surveillance systems by the land forces of a Northern European country, the company announced in a statement.

Imagine a battlefield where tanks predict enemy movements, armored personnel carriers self-diagnose mechanical issues, and infantry fighting vehicles automatically adjust their defensive systems based on incoming threats. Thanks to advancements in vehicle electronics – or vetronics – and open architecture initiatives like CMOSS [C4ISR/EW (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance/electronic warfare) Modular Open Suite of Standards] this vision is closer to reality than ever before.

TOKYO, Japan. Teledyne FLIR Defense will deliver its Star SAFIRE 380-HLD multi-spectral imaging systems to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) as part of a contract worth up to $20.8 million, the company announced in a statement.

MARIGNANE, France. Airbus Helicopters won a contract to deliver 12 H225M multi-role helicopters to the Republic of Iraq, the company announced in a statement. The Iraqi Army Aviation command will operate the helicopters, replacing its aging fleet of Mi-17s.

VIENNA, Austria. Schiebel’s Camcopter S-100 received the first-ever Design Verification Report (DVR) for a Rotary Wing Unmanned Air System (RWUAS) from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the company announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) recently tested a new compact radar system from Hensoldt designed to monitor uncontrolled airspace, the company announced in a statement.