Military Embedded Systems

VIENNA, Austria. Beyond Gravity won a contract to supply electric propulsion pointing mechanisms for a fleet of five small geostationary HummingSat telecommunications satellites built by SWISSto12, the company announced in a statement.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. GE Aerospace and Merlin have launched a joint initiative to develop an “autonomy core,” a platform leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enable reduced crew, single-pilot, and ultimately uncrewed operations for military and civil aircraft, the companies announced in a statement.

NEWPORT, Rhode Island. The Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT) will award a sole-source contract to Curtiss-Wright DS, Inc. for VPX-based computing hardware, according to a government solicitation.

CHANTILLY, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems won a $15.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide security toolkit shipsets for submarine and aircraft carrier platforms, the company announced in a statement.

STRATFORD, Connecticut. Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, won a $10.855 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to build up to 99 CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps over a five-year period, the company announced in a statement.

DULLES, Virginia. Northrop Grumman demonstrated autonomous rendezvous and docking operations between its Cygnus spacecraft and the Starlab commercial space station, the company announced in a statement.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won a contract worth approximately $120 million to deliver its Hermes 900 uncrewed aerial system (UAS) for long-range maritime surveillance to an international customer, the company announced in a statement.

MUNICH, Germany. Helsing revealed the CA-1 Europa, an autonomous uncrewed combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), with development and testing underway at its Grob Aircraft subsidiary, the company announced in a statement.

LISBON, Portugal. The European Defence Agency (EDA), NATO, and the Portuguese Navy co-organized the 15th Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping using Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS), which brought together 24 nations to test uncrewed platforms across sea, air, and land domains, the EDA announced in a statement.

FALLS CHURCH, Virginia. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) won a $1.5 billion contract to modernize enterprise IT systems supporting U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), the company announced in a statement.

LA CIOTAT, France. Exail’s DriX O-16 uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) completed a 1,100-nautical-mile voyage from La Ciotat, France, to Troia, Portugal, to participate in NATO’s REPMUS 2025 exercise, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. Babcock International signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Finnish radio manufacturer KNL to collaborate on high-frequency (HF) communications solutions for land, sea, and air forces, the company announced in a statement.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri. Boeing will relocate its F/A-18 Super Hornet Service Life Modification (SLM) program from the St. Louis region starting in 2026, with all work at the site scheduled to conclude in 2027, the company announced in a statement.

EAST HARTFORD, Connecticut. Pratt & Whitney completed a round of testing on its small turbofan engine family to validate performance for use on Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), the company announced in a statement.

BOCA RATON, Florida. Terran Orbital delivered 42 satellite bus platforms to Lockheed Martin in support of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 1 Transport Layer, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Shield AI and Airbus Defence and Space conducted an autonomous flight demonstration of the DT25 target drone in Andøya, Norway, through integration of Shield AI’s Hivemind autonomy software, the companies announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) and Palantir will collaborate to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) software across BDS production facilities and defense programs, the companies announced in a statement.

MELBOURNE, Florida. L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI demonstrated an artificial intelligence-enabled system for detecting and tracking uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) during a Department of Defense Technology Readiness Experimentation event, the companies announced in a statement.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida. GE Aerospace completed a series of supersonic captive carry flight tests of its Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) Flight Test Vehicle, advancing development of solid-fueled ramjet (SFRJ) propulsion, the company announced in a statement.

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Massachusetts. Bombardier Defense delivered its ninth Global series aircraft to the U.S. Air Force for use in the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) program, the company announced in a statement.