Military Embedded Systems

HAWTHORNE, California. ThinKom Solutions won the Space Systems Command’s “Fight Tonight” competition for its Containerized Digital Array transportable satellite communications ground station, the company announced in a statement.

Across the U.S. military and allied forces, rotary-wing avionics are being rebuilt from the inside out: new architectures, smarter sensors, and software-defined systems designed to keep pace with threats that evolve faster than hardware-refresh cycles can keep up with.

TAMPA, Florida. Artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, tactical communications, electronic warfare, counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) technologies, and acquisition pathways for small businesses will be among the major themes at SOF Week 2026 as U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) brings operators, government leaders, partner nations, and industry together in Tampa, according to event organizers.

CHANTILLY, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems’ GPS Source subsidiary won a three-year, $17 million contract for prototyping, demonstration, and testing of the NorthStar positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) Hub for the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

COSTA MESA, California. Anduril is leading a group of industry partners under contract to develop, test, and deliver space-based interceptor systems for the U.S. Space Force’s Space-Based Interceptor program as part of the Golden Dome for America initiative, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment won a U.S. Army prototype agreement for the Low-Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program to support development, delivery, and testing of its Switchblade 400 loitering munition, the company announced in a statement.

BINGEN, Washington. Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary, will provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) services to the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and other U.S. government customers using its ScanEagle and Integrator uncrewed aerial system (UAS) platforms under a contractor-owned, contractor-operated model, the company announced in a statement.

ROLLING MEADOWS, Illinois. Northrop Grumman won a U.S. Army contract for second-phase development of its Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS), which is intended to support aircraft threat detection and survivability, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite is now operational after completing its in-orbit commissioning phase, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. Lockheed Martin has been selected by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to develop capabilities for the Space-Based Interceptor (SBI) program, the company announced in a statement.

CHANTILLY, Virginia. General Dynamics Mission Systems won a $19 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to finish qualification and pre-production readiness work for the Next Generation Survival Radio (NGSR), the company announced in a statement.

FORT WORTH, Texas. Elbit America received a U.S. Army contract to develop and test the Binocular Night Observation Device and establish a path for future production orders, the company announced in a statement.

BLANDFORD, United Kingdom. Lockheed Martin Skunk Works and the U.K. Ministry of Defence completed a demonstration showing F-35 data sharing with the U.K. NEXUS command-and-control environment and British Army ground effectors, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment plans to build Halo_Shield, a counter-uncrewed aerial system designed to detect, track, identify, and defeat airborne threats including small drones, drone swarms, and subsonic cruise missiles, the company announced in a statement.

ST. LOUIS, Missouri. Boeing and the U.S. Navy completed the first test flight of an operational MQ-25A Stingray under the Navy’s $805 million Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Indra Group is leading the European SCEPTER project to develop a multifunction radio frequency (RF) system demonstrator for defense platforms, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been selected to perform Phase 3 of the U.S. Space Force’s Enterprise Space Terminal (EST) program after government verification of its optical communication terminal (OCT), the company announced in a statement.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia. Thales announced new tactical communications work in Malaysia that includes a local radio assembly line, more than 100 radios for Malaysian Army vehicles, and 16 airborne radios for Royal Malaysian Air Force helicopters, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Bombardier Defense and SNC signed a 10-year service agreement covering two Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft operated for a U.S. military customer, the companies announced in a statement.

GREENVILLE, South Carolina. Lockheed Martin announced that Peru selected 12 F-16 Block 70 fighter aircraft to modernize the country’s fighter fleet and support national defense missions, the company announced in a statement.