Military Embedded Systems

LONDON. Market demand for military-simulator systems is anticipated to be driven by high levels of expenditure by emerging economies in the Asia-Pacific region, including India and China, according to a new study by GlobalData, "The Global Military Simulator Systems Market to 2030." 

MONTREAL. Training and technology company CAE will acquire the L3Harris Military Training business for $1.05 billion, subject to customary adjustments.

LONDON. The major growth driver for the global military airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies industry has been the rising demand for military drones or unmanned aerial systems (UASs), according to a new study by Visiongain, "Military Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Technologies Market Report 2021-2031."

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. Research and development firm Advanced Technology International (ATI) and the U.S. Partnership for Assured Electronics (UPSAE) have created what they call the Defense Electronics Consortium (DEC), an alliance between leading industry and academia experts in the U.S. with the mission of helping the government identify challenges, needs, and opportunities in defense electronics. 

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Green Hills Software announced that its INTEGRITY-178 tuMP real-time operating system (RTOS) will be used in Terma North America's (Arlington, Virginia) next-generation family of electronic warfare (EW)  controllers [the AN/ALQ-213(v5)] as part of Terma's recent $306 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)--Aviation (Warner Robins, Georgia).  

NEW YORK. Software development and verification-tool maker AdaCore announced that it acquired Componolit (Dresden, Germany), effective February 1, 2021.

MELBOURNE, Fla. Avionics and communications technologies from L3Harris Technologies are poised to enable critical links that will connect NASA's Perseverance Rover -- scheduled to land on Mars tomorrow, February 18, 2021 -- when it lands on the Red Planet and throughout its 10-year life expectancy.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. BAE Systems' military GPS business unit has begun work on a $247 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to design and manufacture an advanced military GPS receiver and next-generation semiconductor. 

ATLANTA. Scientific Research Corp. has won a $95 million contract with the 16th Air Force organization to support both command-and-control and service cryptologic element roles. 

U.S. ARMY FACILITY -- ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. The U.S. Army is working on improving situational awareness of the electromagnetic battlefield, embarking on projects that aim to develop spectrum-sensing capabilities that will give soldiers enhanced awareness of their own radio emissions.

NORTHBROOK, Ill. The global market for battlefield-management systems market is projected to grow from $9.5 billion in 2020 to $11.8 billion by 2025, a combined annual growth rate of 4.3% over the study period, according to new market research from MarketsandMarkets, "Battlefield Management Systems Market -- Global Forecast to 2025."

LOS ANGELES. Aerojet Rocketdyne recently received a contract award to deliver up to two multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generators (MMRTG) -- radioisotope power systems that have been used as reliable electrical power sources on multiple deep-space missions -- to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for use in future planetary science missions.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. BAE Systems has signed a contract option worth $184 million with the U.S. Marine Corps to provide more amphibious combat vehicles (ACV) under full-rate production.

DUBLIN. The global electronic warfare (EW) market is projected to grow from $17.0 billion in 2020 to $20.9 billion by 2025, a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.2%, according to a new market study from MarketsandMarkets, "The Electronic Warfare Market -- Global Forecast to 2025." 

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded several contracts under its LongShot program, which is aimed at development of an air-launched unmanned air vehicle (UAV) that can deploy multiple air-to-air weapons.

IEEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRON DEVICE MEETING 2020. Separate research groups in the U.S. and Belgium believe that a new kind of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) could hold bits hundreds or thousands of times longer than commercial DRAM and enable huge savings in space and energy when used for artificial intelligence (AI) and large neural nets. 

The clamor for more bandwidth for military use grows louder all the time, especially as 5G [fifth-generation wireless] networks promise to boost access to mission-critical communications, improve virtual reality/augmented reality tools for troops, and better support autonomous vehicles. In fact, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), in its May 2020 report outlining the government’s 5G strategy, called 5G broadband a “critical strategic technology” that the U.S. telecommunications industry must master so as to gain “long-term economic and military advantage.”

LONDON. Existing hypersonics programs in the U.S. are increasing in maturity and are likely to make major moves toward the production stage in 2021, according to a new report from GlobalData, "Hypersonic Technology in Aerospace and Defense."

U.S. ARMY INSTALLATION -- FORT GORDON, Ga. The U.S. Army expanded its cyber mission as it formally activated the Bravo Company of the 915th Cyberspace Warfare Battalion during a ceremony held in late January 2021. 

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