Military Embedded Systems

WASHINGTON. Numerica plans to launch its new Spark multimission sensing platform -- what the company terms a wideband hemispheric radar -- during the upcoming AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, set to be held from October 14-16 in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. 

Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different organization that benefits the military, veterans, and their families. We are honored to cover the technology that protects those who protect us every day.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) reports that two teams have been chosen to compete in the 2024 AFRL Commander’s Challenge, which seeks solutions to the threats to troops posed by slow-moving, high-altitude, aerial adversaries.

WASHINGTON. Cubic Defense announced that it will showcase its multidomain convergence solutions during this year’s AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, set to be held from October 14-16 in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. 

WASHINGTON. Sensing and navigation company Emcore will display its range of products offering a broad range of tactical, navigation, and strategic-grade requirements for defense platforms in harsh land, sea, air, and space conditions at the upcoming Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition, set to take place from October 14-16 in Washington, D.C.

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. Raytheon (an RTX business), conducted a series of controlled environmental tests of the Barracuda Mine Neutralization System -- a semi-autonomous system that uses sonar and cameras to locate and neutralize undersea mine threats -- at the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division.

WASHINGTON. Sealevel Systems plans to showcase its Relio R1 Rugged Industrial Computers at the upcoming Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition, set to take place from October 14-16 in Washington, D.C.

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army's 21st Theater Sustainment Command (TSC) -- U.S. Army Europe and Africa's lead organization for all sustainment activities including logistics support, transportation, combat sustainment, human resources, finance, and contracting -- announced that it will participate in the upcoming Association of the United States Army (AUSA) 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition, set to take place from October 14-16 in Washington, D.C., with this year's theme being "Transforming for a Complex World." 

ALAMEDA, Calif. Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, today announced that Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform has achieved conformance to the latest Future Airborne Capability Environment, or FACE, Technical Standard, Edition 3.2.

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon (an RTX business) announced that it won a $525 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce ESSM Block 2 missiles and spares -- a short- to medium-range ship-launched, dual-mode, guided missile -- for the U.S. and its allies.  

GREENLAWN, N.Y. BAE Systems won a $19 million contract from the U.S. Navy to design and implement UPX-24 target data-processor capabilities into a single digital interrogator (DI) identification friend or foe (IFF) solution, which is intended to optimize data collection and processing to enable timely insights in order to enhance decision-making on Navy ships. 

PALM BAY, Fla. Reticulate Micro announced that it and several partners -- Curtiss-Wright and Nantenna -- successfully demonstrated what the the company says is the first-ever real-time video streaming over the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) tactical satellite network for a U.S. Special Operations organization.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. RF specialists CRFS announced that the company won the Army Technology Award 2024 for designing the RFeye Node 100-18 LW, a lightweight RF sensor aimed at use in uncrewed aerial systems (UASs), that weighs in at just 2 kg (4.4 pounds).

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Department of Commerce announced that Intel Corp. has received as much as $3 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act as part of the Secure Enclave program, which was started to expand the trusted manufacturing of leading-edge semiconductors for the U.S. government.

PHOENIX. Honeywell is launching a new counter-uncrewed aerial system (UAS) defensive system that detects, tracks, and counters UAS swarms by combining beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BLOS) communication with command-and-control capabilities. 

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) specialists Skyfire Consulting has been acquired by Echelon AI, a company that offers autonomous and swarming artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for UASs. 

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense will provide an encrypted Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) upgrade for U.S. Air Force (USAF) aircraft under a production order from the Air Force.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT -- a business unit of General Dynamics) -- announced its acquisition of Iron EagleX, Inc. (IEX), a company that provides artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), cyber, software development, and cloud services for the U.S. military Special Operations Forces and the intelligence community.

Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different organization that benefits the military, veterans, and their families. We are honored to cover the technology that protects those who protect us every day.

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) E-2/C-2 Airborne Command & Control Systems Program Office (PMA-231) awarded a $16 million contract to defense software company Fuse Integration to produce and install Fuse CORE 4.0 virtualized network systems for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft.