Military Embedded Systems

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.

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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.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Connectivity engineering firm Applied Dynamics International (ADI) announced that it successfully completed its project to modernize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite-emulator systems, an effort ADI says uses an open-architecture framework based on the modular open systems approach (MOSA) principles.

SAN FRANCISCO. The global market for military uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) or drones, measured at $36.14 billion in 2024, is expected to grow at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.8% to 2030, according to a study from Grand View Research, "Military Drone Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Type (Fixed-wing, Rotary Blade, Hybrid), By Operation Mode, By Range, By Application, By Region, And Segment Forecasts, 2024 - 2030."

MONTREAL, Canada. Haivision Systems announced that its subsidiary Haivision MCS won a five-year production agreement with the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to equip U.S. Navy vessels with a comprehensive suite of Haivision ultra-high- performance video-processing solutions for mission-critical display along with video transcoding, storage, and distribution components.

LINKÖPING, Sweden. Saab AB received an order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV), a government agency acting under Sweden's defense department, to supply the Giraffe 1X radar for one of Sweden’s ground-based air defense (GBAD) solutions.

RESTON, Va. CACI International won a five-year task order -- valued at as much as $80 million -- to continue providing engineering support expertise to the U.S. Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Corona Division.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. MIssion-critical software company Real-Time Innovations won a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract intended to help the U.S. Air Force create a secure, standardized, and reliable artificial intelligence (AI) framework for interaction between software agents, humans, and target environments. 

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Army chose the Sierra Nevada Corporation to be the lead system integrator for its High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES), a program the Army is fielding in order to realize transformational increases in speed, range, payload, and endurance for Army aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.

WASHINGTON. The Wireless Innovation Forum (WInnForum) announced the formation of the Highly Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Task Group within the Wireless Innovation Committee (WInnCmte).

MCLEAN, Va.  Digital-training provider V2X announced that it secured an agreement under the Warfighter-Training Readiness Solutions (W-TRS) combat-readiness task order to provide training capabilities to the U.S. Army worldwide. The agreement is valued at $3.7 billion over five years, including option periods.

ENDICOTT, N.Y. BAE Systems announced that Boeing has chosen it to upgrade the fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control computers (FCC) for the F-15EX Eagle II and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter jets.

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND -- PATUXENT RIVER, Md. The U.S. Navy recently installed the world’s first unmanned air warfare center (UAWC) aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) aircraft carrier, where air vehicle pilots (AVPs) will control future MQ-25 Stingray airborne operations.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft maker Archer Aviation delivered its first Midnight aircraft to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to evaluate as part of its AFWERX Agility Prime contract, previously valued at as much as $142 million. 

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Pacific Defense announced that it will lead a team to compete for the U.S. Army’s CMOSS Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) program; the team will also include Thales Defense & Security Inc., BAE Systems, Regal Technology Partners, Palantir, and STC (an Arcfield Company).