Military Embedded Systems

ROCHESTER, N.Y. Mastodon Design, a CACI International company, won a contract worth approximately $100 million to produce a manpack version of the U.S. Army’s Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team (TLS-BCT) electronic warfare (EW) platform.

HERNDON, Va. Space-based RF data and analytics firm HawkEye 360 reported that its Cluster 8 satellites have entered initial operating status and are now providing enhanced revisit rates and expanded data coverage over the world’s most populous regions.

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army performed an end-to-end flight test of a hypersonic missile from the Pacific Missile Range Facility as the serivces sought to collect data on the end-to-end performance of the Conventional Prompt Strike and Long Range Hypersonic Weapon All Up Round.

HARRISBURG, Pa. TE Connectivity is expanding its line of VITA 66 optical backplane interconnects with the new VITA 66.5 Style D optical modules, which it describes as high-density modules that enable a rugged, blind-mate optical interconnect solution for defense, marine, and aerospace applications including avionics, secure communications, radar, and imaging systems.

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its plans to drive interoperability and integration in information technology (IT) across the department, with a new blueprint called "Fulcrum: DOD Information Technology Advancement Strategy" that emphasizes an IT approach that ensures future capabilities align with warfighter needs. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) reports that a partnership under its Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II (SBIR Phase II) program completed its $1.25 million contract to deliver innovative software to enhance transmission of mission-critical intelligence to the edge and support next-generation communcations technology.

PALO ALTO, Calif. The efforts of university students involved in the Hacking for Defense (H4D) program will continue this summer with the help of the H4XLabs enterprise accelerator; students involved in H4D work on solving national security-problems related to challenges such as unmanned aircraft systems, autonomous space operations, and efficient use of satellites. 

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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military is getting a lot of press these days, and indications are that the buzz around it will only increase.

BURLINGTON, Mass. Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled sensing company MatrixSpace won a $1.25 million contract from AFWERX to develop a prototype low size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) multifunction, multiband antenna payload based on the MatrixSpace radar hardware platform.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) conducted a planned flight test of the unarmed, developmental Mk21A reentry vehicle -- which will serve as the front-end of the USAF's future intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) weapon system --  in the Pacific Ocean during mid-June 2024. 

TAMPA, Fla. Safety-critical hardware and software company CoreAVI announced the release of enhancements to its accelerated compute framework to further facilitate use of the AMD E9171 Radeon GPU capabilities and has extended the availability of the AMD E9171 Radeon GPU for the defense and aerospace markets.

PHOENIX, Arizona, and WIRRAL, U.K. DDC-I and LDRA announced an enhanced integration between the Deos safety-critical DO-178C certifiable RTOS [real-time operating system] and the LDRA tool suite with the integrated solution qualified to Design Assurance Level A (DAL A), 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- MOSA Industry & Government Summit & Expo.  Green Hills Software and Mercury Systems announced that they have entered the verification phase for providing DO-178C and AC 20-193 (formerly CAST-32A) airworthiness evidence for the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178 tuMP safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS) running on quad-core 11th- gen Intel Core i7 processors (formerly Tiger Lake).

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Nuvotronics, the microelectronics business of Cubic Corporation, will be showing its SOSA and VITA aligned suite of products at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. New Wave Design, a provider of high-performance FPGA-based solutions, announced the release of its new V6065 3U VPX Versal Premium Adaptive SoC FPGA Optical I/O Module with XMC Site, a module aimed at demanding applications in defense, aerospace, telecommunications, and industrial automation.

BERLIN, Germany. Rust consultancy and developer Ferrous Systems announced its membership in the Rust Foundation's newly formed Safety-Critical Rust Consortium. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, with encouragement to service members to initially experiment with using the AI tool for routine tasks including producing reports, assisting with IT issues, and computer coding.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). RF and microwave component provider SV Microwave will be showing its SOSA and VITA aligned suite of products at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

PHOENIX, Ariz. Spirit Electronics, an end-to-end supply-chain services company, announced that it now offers authorized distribution for ISOCOM Limited, an optoelectronics and microelectronics manufacturer based in the U.K. that serves the defense and aerospace industries.