Military Embedded Systems

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems was chosen by the United States Marine Corps to support evaluations under the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Uncrewed Expeditionary Tactical Aircraft (MUX TACAIR) Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program, the company announced in a statement.

TOULON, France. Naval Group will take a 20% stake in cortAIx France, Thales’ artificial intelligence effort focused on critical systems, as part of a partnership aimed at developing what the companies describe as sovereign, cyber-secure artificial intelligence for French defense programs, the companies announced in a statement.

LONG BEACH, California. Boeing won a contract from the U.S. Air Force to design and deliver a modernized flight deck for the C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama. BAE Systems won $137 million in Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contracts from the United States Army to deliver its Common Missile Warning System (CMWS) to allied nations, the company announced in a statement.

TEL AVIV, Israel. Elbit Systems won multiple contracts totaling more than $100 million from the Directorate of Defense Research & Development within the Israel Ministry of Defense to develop new digitization capabilities for the Israel Defense Forces, the company announced in a statement.

BUDAPEST, Hungary. CAE is participating in a research and development effort in Hungary to develop a graphical user interface for large-scale Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) simulation environments, the company announced in a statement.

TEL AVIV, Israel. The Israel Ministry of Defense signed an approximately $130 million agreement with Elbit Systems to integrate Israeli command-and-control, avionics, electronic warfare, and directed infrared countermeasure capabilities onto 12 Israel Defense Forces Israeli Air Force CH-53K “Pereh” helicopters, the company announced in a statement.

Radar and electronic warfare (EW) teams face a growing mismatch: Threats in the electromagnetic spectrum change quickly, but many fielded systems are still built in ways that make upgrades slow and costly. The Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard is intended to reduce that gap by standardizing how radar and EW hardware and software fit together, making it easier to insert new processing and replace components without major chassis redesign. This feature explains what problems the SOSA approach is solving for radar and EW programs, why implementation can be difficult in practice, how the SOSA Technical Standard supports faster tech insertion to keep pace with emerging threats, and what obstacles remain as the ecosystem matures.

NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems won an $87.5 million U.S. Army order for mobile ad hoc network (MANET) devices supporting the transport layer for the Army’s Next-Generation Command and Control (NGC2) prototype, the company announced in a statement.

OBERKOCHEN, Germany. Hensoldt won orders valued at more than €400 million from KNDS to provide digital optronics for the Boxer RCT 30 wheeled armored vehicle, known as Schakal, and the Leopard 2 A8 main battle tank, the company announced in a statement.

TUCSON, Arizona. Raytheon entered into five framework agreements with the U.S. military aimed at expanding production capacity and accelerating deliveries for Tomahawk cruise missiles, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) weapons, Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB and Block IIA interceptors, and Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) missiles, the company announced in a statement.

JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania. BAE Systems won a $195 million contract to produce 30 additional Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACVs) for the U.S. Marine Corps, the company announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. HENSOLDT won orders worth more than €100 million from Diehl Defence to supply additional TRML-4D air defense radars for multiple European countries under the European Sky Shield Initiative, the company announced in a statement.

ORLANDO, Florida. Lockheed Martin won a $328.5 million Foreign Military Sales production contract from the U.S. government to supply IRST21 Legion-ES infrared search-and-track (IRST) sensor systems for the Taiwan Air Force, the company announced in a statement.

OSLO, Norway. Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and consortium partner Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa have signed a contract with Poland’s Armaments Agency to deliver counter-uncrewed aerial system (C-UAS) capabilities under the SAN CUAS program, the company announced in a statement.

PORTSMOUTH, Rhode Island. Raytheon was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop an advanced sensing and targeting system intended to help defend commercial shipping and naval logistics vessels against threats such as unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), the company announced in a statement.

WAYNE, New Jersey. Data Link Solutions won a $248 million U.S. Navy production contract to supply hundreds of Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) terminals for U.S. forces and allied users, the company announced in a statement.

NEW DELHI, India. Shield AI says the Indian Army has selected the company to supply V-BAT uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) along with licenses for its Hivemind autonomy software to be integrated onto the aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania. Boeing will build four additional MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters and provide related sustainment for the U.S. Air Force under a contract award that brings cumulative program awards to more than $262 million, the company announced in a statement.

ALTENSTADT, Germany. Rheinmetall says it participated in a Bundeswehr exercise at the service’s Army Combat Training Centre in Saxony-Anhalt, using its LUNA NG uncrewed aerial system (UAS) for reconnaissance and networked operations, the company announced in a statement.