Military Embedded Systems

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation and Martin UAV (a Shield AI company) have completed flight testing of a V-BAT unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with new features including GPS-denied navigation and target designation capabilities.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Collins Aerospace launched the world’s first Military Underwater Navigation System with M-Code (MUNS-M), a handheld diver navigation system that is designed to provide the diver with precise position and includes secure anti-jamming capabilities during deep sea missions.

FALLS CHIRCH, Va. Northrop Grumman announced it has delivered the Arrays at Commercial Timescales Integration and Validation (ACT-IV) system to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies business, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held FlightAware, a digital aviation company providing global flight tracking solutions, predictive technology, analytics, and decision-making tools.

MANASSAS, Va. Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing Company, was selected to continue to Phase 1 of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program.

SPRINGVILLE, Utah. IMSAR has announced the release of the NSP-7 Block II synthetic aperture radar (SAR)/Moving Target Indication (MTI) radar. The Block II variant is designed to increase the range of the original NSP-7 by over 50% with no increase in the size, weight, and power (SWaP). 

WILMINGTON, Maa. Analog Devices, Inc. announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Maxim stockholders received 0.63 of a share of ADI common stock for each share of Maxim common stock. Maxim common stock will no longer be listed for trading on the NASDAQ stock market.

UNITED KINGDOM. PPM Systems is returning to the Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade show in September to present its concept-proven, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) radio frequency (RF) over fiber equipment.

DALLAS, Texas and SAN DIEGO, Calif. COMSovereign Holding Corp., a U.S.-based developer of 4G LTE Advanced and 5G Communication Systems and Solutions, announced that its Innovation Digital LLC unit and IQ-Analog, developer of wideband transceiver products targeting military communications and technology, entered into a strategic development alliance targeted at "beyond 5G" wireless communication.

Mobilicom has entered into a partnership with designer and manufacturer of RF/microwave amplifiers and integrated radio systems, Triad RF Systems (‘Triad’).

ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md. ELTA North America has announced the final contractual delivery of its advanced counter-small unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) solution, the On-The-Move V4 (OTM V4) C-sUAS capability.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. Shield AI, a defense technology company developing artificial intelligence (AI) and self-driving technologies for aircraft, announced it has raised $210 million in equity financing as part of a Series D fundraising round, increasing its valuation past the billion-dollar mark. 

UNITED KINGDOM. Leonardo has signed a long-term pricing agreement with Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide pointer/trackers for the U.S. Army’s Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) program as it enters full-rate production.

BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin announced that the company has invented a new type of satellite dish technology with a wide range of use on satellites and ground terminals, including space-based 5G.

ARLINGTON, Va. BAE Systems has announced that its radiation-hardened RAD510 System on Chip (SoC) for space-based computing is entering fabrication. Manufactured by GlobalFoundries (GF), the RAD510 SoC will be the core of a single board computer (SBC) designed with twice the performance capability of the RAD750 microprocessor.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation’s RQ-4B Block 30 Global Hawk, with imagery and signals intelligence collection capabilities, was utilized by the U.S. Air Force during Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) exercises for the U.S. European Command. 

ARLINGTON, Va. Leonardo DRS announced today it has completed formal interoperability testing of its Link-22 Signal Processing Controller (SPC) within the NATO Improved Link Eleven (NILE) Link-22 Network.

MELBOURNE, Fla. The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded L3Harris Technologies a five-year, $96 million IDIQ contract to procure WESCAM MX-electro-optical, infrared and laser designator sensor suites and services.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University are designing a simulator to train Navy ROTC students, or midshipmen, in how to identify cybersecurity threats. In order to do so, officials at the university are leveraging virtual reality (VR) expertise found on the Daytona Beach Campus.   

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman Corporation has validated the open architecture nature of its advanced gateway system offering by integrating and demonstrating a new High Capacity Backbone (HCB) capability provided by L3Harris Technologies with one of Northrop Grumman’s platform agnostic gateway systems.