Military Embedded Systems

MCLEAN, Va. The Mission Technologies division of HII [Huntington Ingalls Industry] won a $65 million task order to perform high-quality, specialized research and analysis for the Pentagon's Joint Staff J7, Deputy Director, Joint Warfighting Development.

ARLINGTON, Va. Raytheon announced that it ran 28 tests of its StormBreaker smart weapon in 2023, including a 100% success rate on 14 of 14 planned jettisons from the F-35C; the additional 14 tests throughout the year included employment from the F/A-18E/F, F-15E, and F-35B across the U.S. Navy, Marines, and Air Force.

LONDON. The tri-nation cooperative at the heart of the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) -- the U.K., Italy, and Japan -- unveiled a new concept model of their next-generation combat aircraft at Farnborough International Airshow.

WASHINGTON. Cybersecurity firm Corsha won an SBIR [Small Business Innovation Research] Phase III contract with the United States Air Force Sustainment Center (AFSC) as part of an effort to enhance the introduction of new technologies into operational technology (OT) networks propelling the Air Force into "Industry 4.0."

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii. Raytheon reports that it demonstrated -- during the recent Valiant Shield 24 exercises in the Pacific -- a simulated complex missile engagement using the U.S. Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS) and Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), launching the U.S. Navy's long-range effector, Standard Missile-6 (SM-6).

EDMONDS, Wash. Network security/cryptography provider wolfSSL announced that it secured the world's first SP800 140Br1-compliant FIPS 140-3 Validation Certificate #4718 for wolfSSL's wolfCrypt module.

HOUSTON, Texas. Engineering and technology solution provider KBR won a task order/contract worth an estimated $52 million supporting the Counter Improvised Threat Systems Test and Evaluation for the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) Quick Reaction Capability Office (QRCO).

PITTSBURGH, Pa. Autonomous mobility provider Near Earth Autonomy won a spot leading one of the teams assembled by the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to demonstrate optimized logistics using rotorcraft for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Aerial Logistics Connector (ALC) program. 

SARATOGA and SANTA CLARA, Calif. Supply-chain security provider Lineaje announced that the U.S. Air Force chose its SBOM360 supply-chain software tool for a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase 1 contract. 

SYRACUSE, NY. Defense R&D company SRC Inc. won a $25 million contract with the U.S. Army to develop the Long-Range Radar, a large instrumentation radar that will be used for range safety, research, development, test, and evaluation of systems on Army test ranges.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. BAE Systems won several contracts -- totaling $111 million -- to provide the SATURN [Second-generation, Anti-jam, Tactical, Ultra-high Frequency Radio for NATO] waveform to the Republic of Korea (ROK).

ARLINGTON, Va. Raytheon won a contract from the U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) Futures and Concepts Center (FCC) to trial the use of its RCADE [Rapid Campaign Analysis and Demonstration Environment] tool, which aims to conduct sophisticated, timely theater-level concept experimentation and mission analysis for the connected battlefield.

SAN JOSE, Calif. Embedded FPGA [field-programmable gate array] developer QuickLogic Corp. won a contract worth $5.26 million to continue the development and demonstration of a strategic radiation-hardened (rad-hard), high reliability FPGA technology intended to support current and future U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) strategic and space system requirements.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. Mastodon Design, a CACI International company, won a contract worth approximately $100 million to produce a manpack version of the U.S. Army’s Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team (TLS-BCT) electronic warfare (EW) platform.

HERNDON, Va. Space-based RF data and analytics firm HawkEye 360 reported that its Cluster 8 satellites have entered initial operating status and are now providing enhanced revisit rates and expanded data coverage over the world’s most populous regions.

PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, KAUAI, Hawaii. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army performed an end-to-end flight test of a hypersonic missile from the Pacific Missile Range Facility as the serivces sought to collect data on the end-to-end performance of the Conventional Prompt Strike and Long Range Hypersonic Weapon All Up Round.

HARRISBURG, Pa. TE Connectivity is expanding its line of VITA 66 optical backplane interconnects with the new VITA 66.5 Style D optical modules, which it describes as high-density modules that enable a rugged, blind-mate optical interconnect solution for defense, marine, and aerospace applications including avionics, secure communications, radar, and imaging systems.

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) released its plans to drive interoperability and integration in information technology (IT) across the department, with a new blueprint called "Fulcrum: DOD Information Technology Advancement Strategy" that emphasizes an IT approach that ensures future capabilities align with warfighter needs. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) reports that a partnership under its Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase II (SBIR Phase II) program completed its $1.25 million contract to deliver innovative software to enhance transmission of mission-critical intelligence to the edge and support next-generation communcations technology.

PALO ALTO, Calif. The efforts of university students involved in the Hacking for Defense (H4D) program will continue this summer with the help of the H4XLabs enterprise accelerator; students involved in H4D work on solving national security-problems related to challenges such as unmanned aircraft systems, autonomous space operations, and efficient use of satellites.