Military Embedded Systems

LONDON. Rohde & Schwarz reports delivery of what it calls a "significant number" of ESMW ultra-wideband monitoring receivers to the Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) under the aegis of the World Trade Organization (WTO) project “New receivers for the quality assurance in the frequency spectrum.”

LONDON. Rohde & Schwarz is exhibiting its products at this week's Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London -- which will run from September 12-15 -- including the company's mission-proven solutions that help customers deal with all aspect of a signal to achieve full situational awareness and information superiority.

LONDON. SDK Embedded Systems (Ashkelon, Israel) -- a designer and manufacturer of rugged military-grade solutions -- will be showing its products at this week's Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition, which will run from September 12-15. 

LONDON. Thales announced that its lightweight multirole missile (LMM) will be on display at the upcoming Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London, which will run from September 12-15. 

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PORTSMOUTH NAVAL BASE, Portsmouth, U.K. A team made up of personnel from QinetiQ, Inzpire, and BAE Systems delivered a demonstration under Phase 2 of the Platform Enabled Training Capability (PETC) to the U.K. royal navy, under which the team connected simultaneously into three platforms docked at the naval base via satellite communications and enabled the crews of the ships to conduct realistic training against a peer adversary. 

LONDON. U.K. naval warships and RAF [Royal Air Force] patrol aircraft tracked a series of Russian vessels in waters close to the U.K. recently in what the British navy termed a "a concerted monitoring operation."

SAN DIEGO. Saab reports that it acquired artificial intelligence (AI) company CrowdAI (San Francisco, California) in a move intended to expand its holdings in AI and machine learning (ML). 

LONDON. High-performance embedded computing provider DFI will be making its initial appearance at the upcoming Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London, which will run from September 12-15. 

KIELCE, Poland. Poland's minister of national defense approved a Letter of Acceptance with the U.S. Army to expand its WISŁA medium-range air and missile defense capabilities with the introduction of 12 Lower-Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensors (LTAMDS) plus 48 Patriot launchers, making the Foreign Military Sale the first international customer to add the advanced 360-degree LTAMDS radar built by Raytheon (an RTX business) to its air and missile defense architecture.

LONDON. Saab is set to introduce at DSEI -- held in London September 12-15 -- its Future Operator Workspace, what it calls an immersive, intuitive user platform concept for superior management of critical systems in all battle situations. 

FirePoint Innovations – a partnership between Wichita State University (WSU) and the U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, Aviation and Missile Center (DEVCOM, AvMC) – recently cut the ribbon on its Applied Innovation Center (AIC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The AIC is a brand-new collaboration, prototyping, and testbed facility aimed at accelerating technology discovery and adoption for U.S. Army aviation.

ENDICOTT, N.Y. BAE Systems reports that its new vehicle-management computer (VMC) has been successfully flight-tested on the F-35 Lightning II stealth combat aircraft, with the trial demonstrating a technology upgrade for all three F-35 variants that is aimed at boosting computer performance and addressing obsolescence issues.

LOCKPORT, Ill. High-speed data acquisition and signal recording systems maker GaGe by Vitrek announced two new versions of its popular Razor Series line of dual-channel (2-CH) high-speed digitizers.

WOBURN, Mass. and COLCHESTER, U.K. Embedded-computing company Concurrent Technologies announced its acquisition of rugged-computing company Phillips Aerospace, in a deal valued at approximately $3.38 million.

CHANDLER, Ariz. Embedded solution provider Microchip Technology reports that the U.K. government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has "successfully reviewed" the security of its communications, industrial, aerospace, defense, nuclear, and other systems that rely on Microchip Technology’s PolarFire FPGAs [field-programmable gate arrays].

ASHBURN, Va. Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions introduced the CHAMP-XD4 (VPX6-485) and the CHAMP-FX7 engines, among the initial members of the company's new Fabric100 class of SOSA aligned system elements, for use in compute-intensive defense, aerospace, and industrial applications.

SLINFOLD, U.K. Electrical/electronics/optical distributor Lane Electronics announced that it will be welcoming visitors at DSEI 2023 [Defence and Security Equipment International trade show] where it will display its latest connector innovations and demonstrating its U.K.-based assembling and value-add services.

HELSINKI, Finland. Virtual-reality hardware/software provider Varjo won a contract to provide head-mounted display (HMD) technology for the U.S. Army’s Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainer (RVCT) Air Program.

TUCSON, Ariz. Ultrashort pulse laser technology company Applied Energetics won a contract from the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) to develop a high-peak/high-average power ultra-short pulse (USP) optical system.