Military Embedded Systems

AUSTIN, Tex. Mission-critical communications firm Ultra I&C reports a successful demonstration of its Orion radio and Archer troposcatter systems to European NATO allies in Poland, marking what it calls a "critical advancement in secure, multi-domain and mobile communications networks."

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) autonomous long-duration prototype ship is seen underway on the water in the first video of it operating at sea. 

LOS ANGELES. National-security technology company Epirus announced that it won a $43.5 million contract from the U.S. Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) under which Epirus will deliver two Integrated Fires Protection Capability High-Power Microwave (IFPC-HPM) Generation II (GEN II) systems, along with associated test events, support equipment, and spares with options for additional tests, components, and support.

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. The military connectors market is expected to reach $2.28 billion by 2030, up from $2.05 billion in 2025, realizing a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.1% according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets, "Military Connectors Market -- Global Forecast to 2030."

SARATOGA, Calif. Software supply-chain security provider Lineaje announced that it received a contract worth $1.8 million from AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force innovation arm.  

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense UK, a division of Cubic Corp., won a two-year, sole-source contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defence (UK MOD) for the delivery of the company's Instrumented Live Training – Area Weapons Effects System (ILT-A).

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Raytheon reports that it won a $74 million contract to produce RAM Guided Missile Launching Systems (GMLS) for the U.S. Navy.

GOLETA, Calif. Semiconductor company Aeluma announced it signed new contracts with NASA and the U.S. Navy that it expects will accelerate development and commercialization for next-generation quantum and sensing systems.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. MIssion systems company Pacific Defense won a $18.4 million contract with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the delivery, integration, and optimization of a networked set of integrated systems aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard plus electronic warfare (EW) signal-processing software suites aimed at addressing emerging peer and near-peer capabilities.

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario. AirMatrix reports that it officially deployed its Libra artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled command-and-control software platform to support the Canadian government in securing its national airspace and identifying threats from unidentified uncrewed aerial systems (UASs).

Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)--PATUXENT RIVER, Md. NAVAIR’s open standards framework, Hardware Open Systems Technologies (HOST), launched its new website, which can be found at https://www.navair.navy.mil/host/. 

BRAMPTON, Ontario. Canadian space-industry player MDA Space Ltd. announced its plans to sign a contract extension with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to provide critical and continuous maritime-satellite surveillance data and analytics services for dark vessel detection. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently held its Resilient Software Systems Colloquium, during which more than 300 participants from across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), defense industry, U.S. government, allies, academia, and formal-methods developers convened as part of DARPA's goal to catalyze widespread adoption of formal methods, mathematically rigorous techniques that can dramatically improve the security and reliability of software systems.

CHANDLER, Ariz. Semiconductor company Microchip Technology introduced its new part, the SA15-28 off-the-shelf radiation-hardened (rad-hard) DC-DC 15W power converter with a companion SF100-28 EMI filter. both of which are designed to meet MIL-STD-461 specifications.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Space Test Program (STP) office has awarded spots to 12 vendors through the Space Test Experiments Platform (STEP) 2.0 contract, which establishes a 10-year multi-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with a $237 million ceiling to bolster spacecraft procurement within STP. 

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon announced that it won a contract worth $250 million with Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) for ESSM Block 2 licensed production.

HELSINKI. European space and defense technology company ICEYE reports that it has been chosen to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems to the Royal Netherlands air force (RNLAF).

Syracuse, N.Y. Defense research and development company SRC announced that it agreed to deliver a suite of its advanced counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS) technologies to international buyers as a part of a $1 billion foreign military sales (FMS) agreement between the U.S. government and the state of Qatar. 

NORFOLK, Va. The U.S. Navy reported that the USS Delaware -- a Virginia-class attack submarine -- successfully executed the first-ever forward-deployed submarine torpedo tube launch and recovery of an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to complete a tactical objective, using the Yellow Moray UUV, marking a major technological milestone in autonomous system development.

PARIS AIR SHOW. Critical-system test and simulation provider Spherea announced at the now-underway Paris Air Show that it will acquire the U.S. subsidiary of the Germany-based Konrad Group.