Military Embedded Systems

ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon won a contract extension worth $1.8 billion with the U.S. Navy for its SPY-6 radar systems, building on the original hardware production and sustainment contract signed in March 2022.  

WINDSOR, Colo. Slingshot Aerospace won a $69.2 million award in support of the U.S. Space Force’s ongoing digital transformation efforts, which are aimed at delivering artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mission rehearsal and operational training capabilities for Space Force personnel. 

NASHUA, N.H. BAE Systems received a contract from Boeing to supply its electronic warfare (EW) system, the AN/ALQ-250 Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability Systems (EPAWSS), for use in the Republic of Korea's F-15K Slam Eagle fighter jets.

LONDON. A Raytheon-led consortium of partners -- called Omnia Training -- reports that it won a 2 billion pound ($2.7 billion) contract from the U.K. defense ministry to serve as the British army's strategic training partner and deliver the British army's Collective Training Service (ACTS).

LONDON. A defense partnership between Thales, RAF Digital, and NAD [National Armaments Director Group] reports that it has accomplished the first operational deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) from the Thales UK cortAIx Factory.

ASHBURN, Va. IT and data-management company Keeper Technology announced that it won a prime contract spot on the large (10 year/$60 billion) NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) under Category A, IT Solutions.

BELLEVUE, Wash. Space-technology firm Pulse Space announced that it won a contract worth $40 million from the United States Space Force for technology development. 

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Abaco Systems launched the SBC3618, a 3U VPX single-board computer (SBC) that is built on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors and is aligned to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, compute-intensive profile. 

DELRAY BEACH, Va. IT service provider MicroTech announced that it won three separate contracts on the 10-year/$60 billion (ceiling) NASA SEWP VI Contract for federal IT solutions, one in each of the contract's three award categories.

KOROPI, Greece. Missile-telemetry company Intracom Defense reports that it signed a contract with weapons manufacturer MBDA Deutschland to develop and produce the data link solution for the DEFENDAIR missile, formerly known as the SADM or Small Anti-Drone Missile. 

LINKÖPING, Sweden. Saab signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) to deliver 16 Gripen E fighter aircraft for Ukraine, an order valued at $2.53 billion (SEK 24.6 billion).  

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Pacific Defense announced it won a contract from the U.S. Army Program Manager Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PM PNT) for the CMOSS Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) Assured Position, Navigation and Timing (APNT) Block 2 plug-in-card (PIC) development program.

ARLINGTON, Va and KANAGAWA, Japan. Fabless semiconductor company EdgeCortix announced that it staged a demonstration of its edge artificial intelligence (AI) platform with the U.S. Air Force during an exercise supporting advanced multidomain battlefield connectivity and AI-enabled mission systems. EdgeCortix also noted that it received a Success Memorandum from the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) that recognizes the successful execution and technical validation of all prototype project objectives to date.

BOSTON, Mass. Information technology solutions provider NOBLE garnered a spot on the 10-year/$60 billion (ceiling) NASA SEWP VI Contract for federal IT solutions in Category A, which includes IT communications, audiovisual products, and cloud-based integration services.

SALT LAKE CITY. Collaborative autonomy company Palladyne AI announced that its subsidiary, GuideTech, signed a new $2.3 million contract with a defense prime contractor to deploy its BRAIN flight computer and FLEX flight software framework in support of development, testing, and deployment of the contractor's low-cost kinetic counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) interceptor system.

LOWELL, Mass. Networking technology company AiRanaculus won a $5 million award from NASA to supply several technologies that will support NASA lunar and space communications networks. 

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. The global market for airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) is projected to grow from $16.44 billion in 2026 to $21.40 billion by 2031, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.4% during the forecast period, according to a recent study by MarketsandMarkets, "Airborne ISR Market -- Global Forecast to 2031."

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon (an RTX business) won a contract worth $1.1 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to produce AIM-9X Block II missiles to strengthen U.S. military inventory and meet increased demand for the missiles from allied nations.

RESTON, Va. MIssion-critical IT provider Tyto Athene reports that it won a $51 million task order for the Department of the Air Force (DAF) Cyber Transport Systems Sustainment (CTS) contract. 

ARLINGTON, Va. Boeing won a contract worth as much as $2 billion to build two next-generation military communications satellites for the U.S. Space Force, succeeding in its bid to win the work to extend the life of one of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) most heavily used satellite networks.