Military Embedded Systems

SAN FRANCISCO. Data application platform-as-a-service (DAPaaS) company Meroxa was chosen to receive a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) Phase II contract through AFWERX -- a program of the U.S. Air Force focusing on innovative technology development -- under which Meroxa will develop a real-time event streaming data architecture for Space Systems Command (SSC) to advance the integration of U.S. and allied sensor data into the Unified Data Library with the ability to easily scale for future mission needs. 

WASHINGTON. NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California on Sunday, December 11, following an historic mission, during which it traveled more than 1.4 million miles on a path around the moon and carried out its Artemis I flight test. 

POWAY, Calif. Autonomous solutions firm EpiSci received a sum of money from RTX Ventures, the venture-capital arm of Raytheon Technologies, a move RTX calls a "minority investment" in EpiSci that Raytheon says is aligned with Raytheon's longstanding leadership in the development of advanced autonomous technologies that will help drive the growth of EpiSci's Tactical AI technology for the battlefield.

LONDON. The synthetic aperture radar (SAR) market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.56% between 2022 and 2027, according to a new report from Technavio, "Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Market by Type, Application and Geography -- Forecast and Analysis 2023-2027."

LOS ANGELES. Radio-technology firm Silvus Technologies been chosen by the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) to supply the Silvus StreamCaster 4400 MANET (mobile ad hoc network) radios for use in the networking on-the-move (NOTM) communications system for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) and Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV).

FORT WORTH, Texas. The U.S. Army chose Textron's Bell unit to produce and deliver the service's next-generation assault helicopter, the V-280 "Valor" tiltrotor able to take off and land vertically but also fly forward at high speeds.

PORTSMOUTH, U.K. Britain's navy has announced that it will field what it says will be the largest and most complex unmanned submarine operated by a European navy; the goal, say officials, is for the uncrewed submarine to work side-by-side with traditional crewed submarines or independently. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM. a command under the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) kicked off a pilot program intended to place new cyber capabilities more quickly into the hands of operators and warfighters.

DUBLIN. The global market for military avionics -- electronic systems in military aviation that enable pilots and crews to perform such operations as combat, command and control, ISR [intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance], and radar tasks -- is projected to register a CAGR of 4.99% over the period 2022 to 2030, according to a report from Research and Markets, "Military Avionics -- Market and Technology Forecast to 2030."

GOTHENBURG, Sweden. Electronics maker CAES announced that it gave its first commercial U.S.-based license for its RISC-V/NOEL-V processor CPU core to Idaho Scientific (Boise, Idaho), a company that develops products that protect hardware and software systems that support critical infrastructure.

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An ongoing project intends to enable military and other scientists to monitor and even enhance the ways in which a soldier’s brain sleeps and, importantly, attains rest and repair. The effort – a collaboration between the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) Military Operational Medicine Research Program (MOMRP) and scientists and engineers at Rice University (Houston, Texas) – is only one of a group of sensor-driven military projects seeking to create wearable technology to track and improve soldier performance and outcomes.

HUDSON, N.H. BAE Systems completed additional ground-to-air test firings to demonstrate the feasibility of 70-mm rockets guided by APKWS [advanced precision kill weapon system] guidance kits against Class-2 unmanned aerial systems (UASs), reporting going "five for five" against the UASs in its test shots. 

NEWPORT, R.I. The U.S. Navy's Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Newport has contracted with Saab to modernize and qualify the MK39 EMATT [expendable mobile antisubmarine warfare training target], a small (3 feet/22 pounds) sonobuoy-size unmanned underwater vessel (UUV) programmed to conduct various anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training scenarios. 

DUBLIN. VR simulation company VRAI announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring next-generation simulation to military end users, with a product leveraging virtual reality (VR), machine learning (ML), and the Microsoft Azure cloud-computing platform.

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) unveiled a cybersecurity plan and roadmap that lays out a zero-trust strategy that will guide DoD agencies in their cybersecurity investments and efforts in the coming years to reach a certain level of zero-trust maturity over the next five years

NORTHBROOK, Ill. The digital-battlefield market, which totaled $43.2 billion in 2022, is slated to grow to $154.1 billion by 2030, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets, "Digital Battlefield Market by Solution (Hardware, Software, Service) Platform (Airborne, Naval, Land, Space), Application, Technology (Artificial Intelligence, IOT, Big Data, 5G, Cloud Computing and Master Data Management) Region -- Global Forecast to 2030."

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) oversaw the delivery and preparation for launch of its twin 6U CubeSat satellites during mid-October at Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay in southwest England. 

NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The launch of the unmanned Artemis I mission, NASA’s first step in returning to the moon, is carrying a host of critical components that power the flight computers, flight-control systems, and payloads on both the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft. NASA successfully launched the Artemis I from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, November 16.

NASA KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft launched with the agency's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the early hours of November 16, 2022, on its way to the moon as an initial flight test of NASA's deep-space exploration program.