Military Embedded Systems

FORT WAYNE, Indiana. L3Harris Technologies has completed a $125 million expansion of its Fort Wayne space systems facility to increase production capacity for satellite-based missile warning and defense programs, the company announced in a statement.

SANTA CLARA, California. Intel reached an agreement to sell a 51% stake in its Altera business to private equity firm Silver Lake, establishing Altera as an independent company focused solely on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions won a sole-source contract valued at approximately $30 million to produce air defense system hardware for a U.S. national security customer, the company announced in a statement.

PARDUBICE, Czech Republic. Retia entered into a strategic partnership with Israeli company Axon Vision to integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled situational awareness systems into Czech-manufactured armored vehicles, the company announced in a statement.

WEST WALES, U.K. The British Army has completed its largest counter-drone swarm trial, demonstrating a radiofrequency directed energy weapon (RF DEW) system capable of neutralizing multiple uncrewed aerial targets simultaneously, the U.K. Ministry of Defence announced in a statement.

ULM, Germany. Thales delivered a full set of dual traveling wave tubes (TWTs) for the Optus-11 satellite, a Ku-band spacecraft developed by Airbus Defence and Space under the OneSat reconfigurable satellite program, the company announced in a statement.

SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will invest in two Dutch companies—Emergent Swarm Solutions and Saluqi Motors—following their participation in the 2024 Blue Magic Netherlands (BMN) innovation event, the company announced in a statement.

FORT IRWIN, California. The U.S. Air Force joined other services and allied forces during Project Convergence Capstone 5 (PC-C5) to evaluate joint command-and-control (C2) technologies, including the Tactical Operations Center–Light (TOC-L), the service announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems was added to the U.S. Navy’s Family of Systems (FoS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide data link technologies for unmanned surface vessels (USVs), the company announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Shield AI acquired the Data Driven Readiness (DDR) software toolset from Crowdbotics to enhance its artificial intelligence-enabled autonomy products, the company announced in a statement.

LEEUWARDEN AIR BASE, Netherlands. The Royal Netherlands Air Force and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works demonstrated the first live, in-flight transfer of classified F-35 targeting data to a non-U.S. command-and-control system during the Ramstein Flag multi-domain operations exercise, the company announced in a statement.

CHANDLER, Arizona. Microchip Technology released its BR235 and BR235D series of hermetically sealed electromechanical power relays, qualified to MIL-PRF-83536 standards and intended for high-reliability defense and aerospace applications, the company announced in a statement.

GETAFE, Spain. The first Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft acquired by the Spanish Ministry of Defence has entered service with the Spanish Air and Space Force’s 45th Wing, the company announced in a statement.

MADRID, Spain. Indra won a contract from the Sultanate of Oman to supply new long-range Lanza 3D early warning radars to the Royal Air Force of Oman (RAFO), the company announced in a statement. 

SAN DIEGO, California. Cubic Defense won a position on an eight-year, multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract to support live training and range systems for the U.S. Army, the company announced in a statement.

PETAH TIKVA, Israel. Gilat Defense won a contract valued at over $11 million to supply DKET 3420 transportable satellite communication hubs to an undisclosed uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) company, the company announced in a statement.

HELSINKI, Finland. Patria signed a supply agreement with Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH and Rheinmetall Hungary to deliver at least 24 Patria NEMO 120 mm turreted mortar systems for integration into Lynx KF41 armored vehicles as part of Hungary’s ZRINYI modernization program, the company announced in a statement.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida. Sidus Space and Reflex Aerospace signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a joint venture aimed at producing integrated satellite platforms for defense, commercial, and government applications, the companies announced in a statement.

BOSTON, Massachusetts. Teledyne FLIR Defense won a $74.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to continue development of a modernized sensor suite for the M1135 Stryker Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV), the company announced in a statement.

HUNT VALLEY, Maryland. Textron Systems won a contract worth up to $100 million over three years from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to provide software support and payload integration for the U.S. Navy’s Mine Countermeasures (MCM) Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), the company announced in a statement.