Military Embedded Systems

OTTAWA, Canada. Thales Canada won a contract from Lockheed Martin Canada to supply S2087 towed array sonar systems for the Royal Canadian Navy’s future River-class destroyers, the company announced in a statement.

ROME, Italy. Leonardo will supply two C-27J Spartan tactical transport aircraft to Romania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs under a contract that includes mission kits, logistics support, training, and infrastructure, the company announced in a statement.

MOORESTOWN, New Jersey. Lockheed Martin delivered the first Integrated Combat System (ICS)-enabled baseline to the U.S. Navy, the company announced in a statement.

OTTAWA, Canada. Airbus signed separate cooperation agreements with CAE Inc., L3Harris Technologies, and RTX’s Pratt & Whitney Canada to support future Canadian defense programs and industry collaboration, the company announced in a statement.

KRAKÓW, Poland. Kongsberg signed a contract with Poland’s Institute of Meteorology and Water Management to deliver a satellite ground station for Sentinel and polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, the company announced in a statement.

MONTRÉAL, Canada. Bombardier Defense will provide three Global 6500 aircraft for maritime surveillance missions operated by Metrea for the Australian Border Force, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment received an additional $20.2 million government investment to expand its Huntsville, Alabama facility for production of the Freedom Eagle-1 interceptor, the company announced in a statement.

CHATSWORTH, California. Aitech released two rugged single-board computers (SBCs) for military and aerospace systems that use Intel 14th generation Core Ultra processors for edge processing and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads, the company announced in a statement.

WATERLOO, Ontario. Pixus Technologies released the ruggedized RX420 NI software-defined radios (SDRs), which use Emerson’s NI Ettus universal software radio peripheral (USRP) X420, the company announced in a statement.

SARASOTA, Florida. Mountain Horse Solutions, working with AG3 Labs and Draganfly, was selected to take part in the Drone Dominance Program Phase II Qualifier in June 2026 at Camp Grayling, Michigan, the company announced in a statement.

LONG BEACH, California. Rocket Lab won a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to design, build, integrate, and operate two geostationary orbit satellites carrying Heimdall space domain awareness payloads, the company announced in a statement.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won a contract worth about $1.4 billion from a European customer for military modernization programs, the company announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) commander Adm. Frank Bradley used his keynote address at SOF Week to warn a room full of defense industry executives about one of the most important developments on the modern battlefield: the migration of commercial technology into adversary weapons systems. Both his remarks and technology showcased on the trade show floor indicate that the organization is in a race against adversaries to use that technology on the battlefield.

TAMPA, Florida. U.S. Special Operations Command is quietly assembling the institutional architecture of an organization that functions less like a combatant command and more like a full military department -- with its own civilian secretariat, its own acquisition system, its own industry ecosystem, and its own direct relationships with Congress and allied partners, a week of senior leadership keynotes and briefings at SOF Week 2026 revealed.

TAMPA, Florida. Frontgrade Technologies is showcasing its Modular Amplified Communications Suite (MACS) at SOF Week this week, displaying a scalable communications architecture designed for rapid deployment across tactical environments and vehicles of opportunity, the company says.

TAMPA, Florida. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (SOLIC) will hold its first quarterly industry day on July 24 in Washington, D.C., official in charge of the office announced during his keynote address at SOF Week.

TAMPA, Florida. Annapolis Micro Systems displayed its WILDSTAR SAF2 Small Form Factor Module at SOF Week this week, with the company pitching the system as a portable, high-performance signal processing solution designed for special operations forces operating in austere environments.

TAMPA, Florida. The head of Shield AI says that operating in GPS-denied environments remains a top challenge for the autonomous military systems industry, arguing that the vast majority of autonomous systems on the market cannot function in the communications-jammed environments that define modern battlefields.

TAMPA, Florida. The commander of Special Operations Command Africa said his command is looking at using the continent's operating environment to develop and refine emerging capabilities that cannot be tested in higher-end theaters without exposing them to adversary observation.

TAMPA, Florida. Senior special operations commanders cautioned this week against wholesale adoption of tactics and technologies from the war in Ukraine, arguing that future fights will require a different framework even as the conflict offers critical organizational lessons.