Military Embedded Systems

BETHESDA, Maryland. Lockheed Martin announced a $50 million investment in Saildrone to accelerate development of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) equipped with military payloads and command-and-control systems, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. X-Bow Systems reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin’s Astris AI subsidiary to deploy the Astris AI Factory, a secure artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to enhance digital manufacturing operations for defense applications, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions is developing the Condor Thor 3U VPX series, a new line of rugged, single-board computers (SBCs) powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform and aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Saab won a $46 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver Giraffe 1X radar systems in support of U.S. security cooperation partners, the company announced in a statement.

LONDON, United Kingdom. The United Kingdom government announced a £5.4 billion agreement with the Republic of Türkiye for the sale of 20 Typhoon fighter aircraft, along with an associated weapons and integration package, according to a BAE Systems statement.

ULM, Germany. The Eurofighter Common Radar System Mark 1 (ECRS Mk1) will be integrated into the 20 new Eurofighter Tranche 5 aircraft ordered by the German Air Force, under a contract signed between the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management Agency (NETMA) and Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH, the companies announced in a statement.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland. The U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR Center has released updated documentation for several key Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) standards, marking a step toward greater interoperability and modularity across the service’s communications and electronic warfare systems, according to a special notice posted on SAM.gov earlier this month.

GETAFE, Spain. The SpainSat NG-II satellite, built by Airbus for secure government and military communications, was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the company announced in a statement.

SEOUL, South Korea. Hyundai Rotem signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. artificial intelligence company Shield AI to jointly develop AI-based multipurpose drone operation technology for defense applications, the company announced in a statement.

LA SPEZIA, Italy. Fincantieri unveiled its first integrated underwater drone system, named DEEP, during a demonstration mission at the Naval Support and Experimentation Center in La Spezia, the company announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. HENSOLDT supported the live-fire testing of the German Navy’s frigate Baden-Württemberg using its non-rotating TRS-4D naval radar integrated with Diehl Defence’s IRIS-T SLM air defense system, the company announced in a statement.

BEDFORD, United Kingdom. Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) announced that three Airlander 10 aircraft have been reserved for defense use, marking the first military reservations for the platform, the company announced in a statement.

ANDOVER, Massachusetts. Mercury Systems won a multi-year, cost-plus-fixed-fee development contract to create a multi-mission, multi-domain subsystem for a U.S. defense prime contractor, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Shield AI unveiled its X-BAT aircraft, an AI-piloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) combat jet designed for expeditionary and maritime missions in contested environments, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. AeroVironment won a $95.9 million contract to deliver its Freedom Eagle (FE-1) kinetic counter-uncrewed aircraft system (C-UAS) missile as part of the U.S. Army’s Long-Range Kinetic Interceptor (LRKI) program, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Shield AI’s V-BAT uncrewed aerial system (UAS) supported intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations for U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command and the U.S. 4th Fleet during the multinational maritime exercise UNITAS 2025, the company announced in a statement.

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico. Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) demonstrated its operational capabilities during a recent U.S. Army flight test at White Sands Missile Range, the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. AUSA 2025 put embedded technologies at the center of the Army’s modernization push, with show floors and keynotes converging on themes of counter-UAS, edge artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), open architectures, thermal management for high-power compute, and resilient radio frequency/positioning, navigaton, and timing (RF/PNT).

WASHINGTON, D.C. nVent SCHROFF is showcasing its new Liquid Flow Through cooling module at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2025 Annual Meeting, a solution designed to meet growing thermal challenges in high-performance embedded computing applications, a company representative said at the show.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Times Microwave Systems is featuring its MilTech line of hermetically sealed RF and microwave cable assemblies at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2025 Annual Meeting, emphasizing high-reliability interconnects for military airborne and mission-critical platforms.