Military Embedded Systems

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2025--NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. SATCOM provider Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. is set to highlight its MPT30Ka and MPT46Ka SATCOM systems at the upcoming Sea-Air-Space Conference & Exhibition, set to be held April 6-9 in National Harbor, Maryland. 

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army awarded positions to 11 companies on its LTRaC MAC 3 contract, which provides for life cycle support for the Army’s live-training ranges and combat-training centers.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. Supercomputing company Cerebras Systems announced it won a new contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the development of a state-of-the-art high-performance computing system -- optimized for real-time artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) -- that is ultimately aimed at use in the U.S. defense sector and by commercial concerns.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Slingshot Aerospace announced that it will work with the U.S.Air Force's AFWERX innovation arm to support the Slingshot Rapid Analysis of Photometric Tracks for space Object identification and behavior Recognition RAPTOR) program, which is aimed at satellite and space object identification and behavior recognition.  

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2025--NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Newly confirmed Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming Sea-Air-Space Conference & Exhibition, set to be held April 6-9 in National Harbor, Maryland. Secretary Phelan's address is scheduled for Wednesday, April 9, at 7:30 a.m. at the Sea-Air-Space Breakfast.

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2025--NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Shipbuilding and maritime services giant HII (Huntington Ingalls Industries) is set to showcase its technologies and capabilities at the upcoming Sea-Air-Space Conference & Exhibition, set to be held April 6-9 in National Harbor, Maryland. 

SEA-AIR-SPACE 2025--NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Mercury Systems will highlight its Mercury Processing Platform -- a group of tools that delivers delivers signal, compute, and data management technologies at the edge to support maritime defense and security -- at the upcoming Sea-Air-Space Conference & Exhibition, set to be held April 6-9 in National Harbor, Maryland. 

ASHBURN, Va. National-security and artificial intelligence (AI) company Cypher announced an agreement with the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division under which the Army will integrate Cypher’s "Battlemind" AI agent into the 25th Infantry Division’s tactical environment.

ARLINGTON, Va. Uncrewed and robotic systems company AeroVironment (AV), through its wholly owned subsidiary Telerob (which is located near Stuttgart, Germany), won a contract with Germany's federal armed forces to deliver 41 large-sized uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) that specialize in explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and counter-IED missions. 

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense reports that it won a spot on a ten-year, multiple-award contract to support U.S. Army Program Executive Officer (PEO) Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (STRI) TESS programs, which are aimed at providing engineering and manufacturing for fielded and new TESS systems and supporting home-station training, the Combat Training Centers (CTC), and Foreign Military Sales (FMS).

ARLINGTON, Va. Raytheon reports that it won a follow-won contract from the U.S. Army Futures Command, Futures and Concepts Center under which the Army Futures Command will continue to use the Raytheon Rapid Campaign Analysis and Demonstration Environment (RCADE) modeling and simulation capability. 

FALLS CHURCH, Va. Northrop Grumman reports that it recently was able to integrate and test the enhanced combat ID capabilities for its Multi-Role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) -- a multifunction surveillance sensor for combat aircraft -- using an operational E-7 aircraft. 

NEW YORK. Mobile networking company Persistent Systems reported that it demonstrated the maturity of its mobile ad hoc network (MANET) networking capability in line with U.S. military objectives during a recent portion of Project Convergence-Capstone Five (PC-C5), a Combined Joint All-Domain Command-and-Control (CJADC2) experiment.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. The global market for drone or uncrewed aerial system (UAS) communications -- estimated to be $2.46 billion in 2024 -- will reach $3.67 billion by 2029, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets, "Drone Communication Market by Technology (Radio Frequency, Cellular (LTE/4G, 5G/6G), Satellite, Meshed Network), Application (Military (ISR, Combat), Commercial), Component (Transmitter, Receiver, Antenna, Data Link) and Region - Global Forecast to 2029." 

ANNAPOLIS, Md. Northrop Grumman Systems won a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) worth a cumulative value of $24.88 million to advance the "Full Spectrum Undersea Warfare Innovative Naval Prototype Autonomous Undersea Exploitation" initiative, under which Northrop Grumman is working on research into technologies designed to enhance the U.S. Navy’s ability to perceive and respond to undersea threats autonomously.

BETHESDA, Md. Lockheed Martin secured a contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop a quantum-enabled inertial navigation system (INS) prototype, which is aimed at enabling precise location measurements even in GPS-denied environments. 

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. Saab Inc. received a contract modification award from the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) for additional Marine Corps Training Instrumentation Systems (MCTIS) equipment; the order value for this award is $37 million (SEK 375 million). 

MCLEAN, Va. Shipbuilders and military-training company HII announced that its Mission Technologies division won a task order valued at approximately $182 million to provide logistics support for U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot-training devices.