Military Embedded Systems

SYLMAR, Calif.  Military-display manufacturer IEE is moving into the production phase of its contract with L3Harris that calls for IEE to deliver hundreds of 3ATI electronic warfare (EW) multi-function displays (MFDs).

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AUSTIN, Tex. Ultra I&C will provide the U.S. Army with its Archer troposcatter system under a new contract aimed at getting Archer into the hands of Army soldiers for training and evaluation in an effort to enhance network resiliency by adding an additional form of secure communications. 

ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon (an RTX business) reports that it signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy worth $646 million to continue producing AN/SPY-6(V) radars for Navy ships; this is the fourth option exercised from the March 2022 hardware, production and sustainment contract that is valued up to $3 billion over five years.

NEW YORK. Mobile-networking company Persistent Systems announced that its Wave Relay devices gained approval from the National Security Agency (NSA) as IPsec VPN Gateway and MACsec components.

ARLINGTON, Va. In a series of recent tests held at the U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program reported setting several new records for transmitting power over distance, with the POWER team recording more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission from a laser situated 8.6 kilometers (5.3 miles) away; over the course of the test campaign, more than a megajoule of energy was transferred.

GREENLAWN, N.Y. BAE Systems won a $30 million contract with the U.S. Navy to refresh the AN/APX-123A(V) Common Transponder (CXP), which is intended to enhance the system's cybersecurity and interoperability and support the latest U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) standards.

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.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. Blighter launched what it says is its longest-range smart border-surveillance radar system,  which can detect a person 15 km (9.3 miles) away using only 4 W of power, or the same amount of juice needed to power a cellphone or an LED bulb.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Ametek Abaco Systems introduced the GRA117SVIO, an Open VPX 3U video graphics and GPGPU card aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard.

ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon (an RTX business) announced that it won a $536 million contract from the U.S. Navy for its SPY-6 family of radars; the most recent contract is a follow-on to the previously awarded Integration and Production Support contract and includes upgrading Flight IIA destroyers with the SPY-6(V)4 variant, the company said.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Airspace-management software provider Vigilant Aerospace Systems and its FlightHorizon multisensor detect-and-avoid software has been chosen by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) as a new vendor on the USAF's wide-ranging $46 billion Enterprise-Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC). 

SAN FRANCISCO. The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture or SOSA Consortium today announced the release of the Technical Standard for SOSA Reference Architecture, Edition 2.0, Snapshot 3. New features and functionality described in Snapshot 3 are intended for inclusion in Edition 2.0 of the standard when officially released.

MUNICH. Infineon Technologies announced the first of a new family of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) gallium nitride (GaN) transistors, aimed at use in harsh space environments.

CHICAGO. Motorola Solutions announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Silvus Technologies, Inc. -- a Los Angeles-based provider of mission-critical mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) -- for $4.4 billion in up-front consideration.  

POWAY, Calif. General Atomics won a $99.3 million contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for work on what it calls a “hybrid-electric propulsion ducted fan next-generation intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance/strike unmanned aerial system,” which it calls GHOST. 

HELSINKI, Finland. Finland's Patria Group announced that it will lead an industry consortium for the new joint Artificial Intelligence Warfare Adaptive Swarm Platform (AI-WASP) program, which will develop a new generation, scalable, and cognitive multifunctional software-defined converged aperture and transceiver (AIMA).

WOODBRIDGE, Va. Cybersecurity and IT provider Sev1Tech reports that it won a $262 million contract with the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office, Command, Control and Communications Network.

SOF WEEK 2025 -- Tampa, Fla. Reticulate Micro, Inc. (RMX) announced that it is participating in a live tactical video demonstration during this week's SOF Week 2025 exhibition, currently underway in Tampa.  

SOF WEEK 2025 -- Tampa, Fla. L3Harris Technologies announced during this week's SOF Week exhibition that it won multiple orders -- expected to total $214 million -- under Germany’s Digitalization – Land Based Operations (D-LBO) program.