Military Embedded Systems

BURLINGTON, Mass. Collaborative-sensing provider MatrixSpace won a a $1.9 million AFWERX (the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force) Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) Phase II Sequential contract to develop a distributed dual-mode mesh radar to be used for military-base defense.

RESTON, Va. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) won a $120 million, five-year contract with the U.S. Navy -- specifically, the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) -- to continue the support of Tactical Training Group Pacific’s (TTGP) fleet-training mission.

CHANTILLY, Va. Intelligence and cyber solutions provider LIS Solutions reports that it won a spot on the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS)+ Multi-Agency Contract (MAC) for a ten-year term.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. Wireless-power provider Yank Technologies won two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts with NASA to develop wireless-charging solutions for lunar and other off-Earth applications. 

MELBOURNE, Fla. The L3Harris Agile Development Group demonstrated its robotic, highly mobile, short-range air defense capability prototype at the recent Army-hosed Project Convergence Capstone 4 (PC-C4) field experiment. 

SAN DIEGO. BAE Systems has been awarded a $48 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to further advance the Insight system, an advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) exploitation and resource-management system that uses machine learning (ML) and autonomy-based solutions to help analysts process massive volumes of complex data and quickly translate it into actionable intelligence.

ANDOVER, Mass.  Raytheon won a contract worth $478 million contract from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency [NSPA] to supply additional GEM-T missiles (Guidance Enhanced Missile, the Patriot Advanced Capability 2 [PAC-2] missile interceptor enhanced for defeating tactical ballistic missiles) to Germany; the contract supports the replenishment of Patriot missiles donated by Germany to Ukraine. 

AMSTERDAM. The worldwide military helicopter market, valued at more than $23.3 billion in 2019, is projected to reach $28.8 billion by 2027, with more than 66% of business coming from non-U.S. countries -- including Asia, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa -- according to a new report from Market Forecast, "Global Military Helicopter -- Market and Technology Forecast to 2027."

PALM BAY, Fla. Defense-communications provider Reticulate Micro announced that it completed shipment of its first government order for VAST, its advanced video encoding and compression platform that is built to work over virtually any network at the tactical edge.

RESTON, Va. CACI International and the U.S. Army signed a five-year task order -- valued at as much as $319 million -- under which CACI will provide intelligence systems expertise to the U.S. Army, Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM), Software Engineering Center (SEC), Electronic Warfare and Sensors Directorate (IEWSD), Army Reprogramming Analysis Team-Program Office (ARAT-PO).

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MCLEAN, Va. Simulation and analysis tool company DEFCON AI reports that it formally delivered its advanced modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) tool, ARTIV, to the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command. 

WOBURN, Mass. Defense-autonomy developers Scientific Systems announced a new contract with the U.S. Army’s Humanitarian Demining Research and Development (HD R&D) Program to upgrade its Buried Object Reporting and Identification System (BORIS), which is an artificial intelligence-enabled, platform-agnostic software tool for humanitarian clearance of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and range remediation.  

SAN FRANCISCO. Critical-communications solution provider Somewear Labs announced that it successfully demonstrated the ability to provide resilient connectivity across heterogeneous autonomous platforms and ensure effective and secure uncrewed aerial system (UAS) operations in complex battlefield environments.

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has initiated a new program that intends to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming language.

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense is an integral part of the team of industry, government, and academia industry partners collaborating in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program, which is underway in an effort to increase trust in combat autonomy by using human-machine collaborative dogfighting as its challenge problem.

FORT DRUM, N.Y. Soldiers from the New York National Guard’s 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team tested very small uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) and laser rangefinder systems during late June 2024, in a program aimed at familiarizing users with small new technologies designed to mitigate the risk to soldiers on the battlefield.

MCKINNEY, Texas. Raytheon reports that it won two strategic Mentor-Protégé Agreement initiatives from the Department of the Navy Office of Small Business Programs aimed at supporting the development of operational artificial intelligence (AI) for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) platforms and programs.

BRUSSELS. NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) awarded three Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC) contracts to Airbus, Leonardo, and Lockheed Martin Sikorsky, paving the way for the helicopter manufacturers to undertake "detailed platform concept studies" as NATO seeks to deliver a new class of medium-lift military helicopters between 2035 and 2040.

LINKOPING, Sweden. Saab received an order for a number of defense systems and equipment from the government of a Western country; the value of the order is approximately SEK 6.6 billion ($612 million), with deliveries planned 2027-2028.