Military Embedded Systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif. Lockheed Martin reports that it fully assembled, powered on, and advanced the U.S. Space Force’s first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) Block 0 satellite to system level testing at the Lockheed Martin satellite facility.

61st AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & CONVENTION, NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Leonardo is set to highlight its new DRFM [digital radio frequency memory] jammer that is aimed at delivering platform protection and integrated air defense suppression at the Annual AOC [Association of Old Crows] International Symposium & Convention, set to take place December 11-13 in National Harbor, Maryland.

HERNDON, Va. Government IT provider Akima announced that its subsidiary, Akima Systems Engineering (ASE), won a contract with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) to modernize national-security IT and communications infrastructure. The contract has a total value of as much as $55 million and has a five-year period of performance if all options are exercised.

LITTLETON, Colo. Lockheed Martin’s newest technology demonstrator -- an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) spacecraft with a mission to prove specialized sensing and communications capabilities on orbit -- is is now ready for launch in 2025 aboard a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket. 

ALEXANDRIA, Va. and WOBURN, Mass. Parry Labs and Concurrent announced a nonexclusive partnership that the two companies say will strive to rapidly deliver scalable Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, aligned technologies that answer the needs of users in the modern battlespace.

61st AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & CONVENTION, NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. The theme for this year's Association of Old Crows (AOC) annual symposium is “Electromagnetic Spectrum Warfare – The Great Power Competition.” The 61st Annual AOC International Symposium & Convention is set to take place December 11-13 in National Harbor, Maryland.

61st AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & CONVENTION, NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. Mercury Systems will showcase technology from its Mercury Processing Platform as it shows the RFS1140 demonstration system -- featuring the first direct RF multi-chip module with AMD Versal -- at the Annual AOC [Association of Old Crows] International Symposium & Convention, set to take place December 11-13 in National Harbor, Maryland.

MERRIMACK, NH. BAE Systems' FAST Labs research and development organization agreed to a $6 million contract with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of the DARPA Pipelined Reasoning of Verifiers Enabling Robust Systems (PROVERS) program, which is aimed at further securing software development across the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). 

MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon reports successful completion of a Delta Design Review of its advanced electronic warfare (ADVEW) prototype for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, a system being developed to replace existing EW components on the aircraft to improve survivability and long-term sustainability.

HVIDOVRE, Denmark. The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and Danish communications and acoustics company INVISIO entered into a collaboration agreement under which the entities codeveloped INVISIO Link, a tactical communications solution for military operators at speed.

McLEAN, Va. Defense-technology company QinetiQ US reports that it won a four-year, $42 million task order to support the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) C5ISR Center's Research & Technology Integration (RTI) Directorate that focuses on development and enhancement of intelligent sensor-processing and advanced-imaging technologies.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) announced that it won two training support services task orders totaling $330 million by the Army Contracting Command -- Orlando as part of the $975 million Mission Training Complex Capabilities Support II (MTCCS) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

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WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Commerce finalized two separate awards under the CHIPS and Science Act's Incentives Program’s Funding Opportunity for Commercial Fabrication Facilities: The Commerce Dept. awarded BAE Systems Electronic Systems (a business unit of BAE Systems) as much as $35.5 million in direct funding and awarded Rocket Lab (the parent company of space power provider SolAero Technologies Corp.) as much as $23.9 million in direct funding.

PASADENA, Calif. Artificial intelligence (AI) decision intelligence company Virtualitics announced the renewal of its Automated Master Storage Planning (A-MSP) operational deployment contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) as part of a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award. 

DENVER, Colo. Hughes Network Systems (an EchoStar Corp. subsidiary) won a $6.5 million contract to deploy a 5G open radio access network (ORAN) prototype at U.S. Army post Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas that will feature a RAN intelligent ccontroller (RIC) aimed at enabling the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to test RIC-based software applications for military networks.

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan. Neousys Technology, a provider of rugged embedded systems, announced that its SEMIL industrial computer has been integrated into one of its user's data-logging defense vehicles and will be used to collect, process, and analyze critical real-time data in order to enhance military operations.

CHANDLER, Ariz. Comtech Telecommunications won a sole-source contract from the U.S. Navy Information Warfare Systems Command to supply its U.S sovereign software-defined SLM-5650B satellite communications (SATCOM) modems, upgrade kits, firmware options, and technical support. 

SAN JOSE, Calif. & WATERLOO, Ontario. Lynx Software Technologies, a company that supplies open architecture software solutions for edge computing, announced the acquisition of Core Avionics & Industrial (CoreAVI), a provider of development tools, software libraries, and deployable software packages that enable different types of safety-critical GPU-based computing, including certified graphics rendering, autonomy, and AI [artificial intellilgence] applications.

LISLE, Ill. Connectivity and electronics provider Molex announced it signed an agreement to purchase AirBorn, Inc. (Georgetown, Texas), a company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of rugged connectors and electronic components for OEMs in the defense, aerospace, space exploration, commercial air, and industrial markets.