Military Embedded Systems

Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different organization that benefits the military, veterans, and their families. We are honored to cover the technology that protects those who protect us every day.

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military is getting a lot of press these days, and indications are that the buzz around it will only increase.

BURLINGTON, Mass. Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled sensing company MatrixSpace won a $1.25 million contract from AFWERX to develop a prototype low size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) multifunction, multiband antenna payload based on the MatrixSpace radar hardware platform.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) conducted a planned flight test of the unarmed, developmental Mk21A reentry vehicle -- which will serve as the front-end of the USAF's future intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) weapon system --  in the Pacific Ocean during mid-June 2024. 

TAMPA, Fla. Safety-critical hardware and software company CoreAVI announced the release of enhancements to its accelerated compute framework to further facilitate use of the AMD E9171 Radeon GPU capabilities and has extended the availability of the AMD E9171 Radeon GPU for the defense and aerospace markets.

PHOENIX, Arizona, and WIRRAL, U.K. DDC-I and LDRA announced an enhanced integration between the Deos safety-critical DO-178C certifiable RTOS [real-time operating system] and the LDRA tool suite with the integrated solution qualified to Design Assurance Level A (DAL A), 

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- MOSA Industry & Government Summit & Expo.  Green Hills Software and Mercury Systems announced that they have entered the verification phase for providing DO-178C and AC 20-193 (formerly CAST-32A) airworthiness evidence for the Green Hills INTEGRITY-178 tuMP safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS) running on quad-core 11th- gen Intel Core i7 processors (formerly Tiger Lake).

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Nuvotronics, the microelectronics business of Cubic Corporation, will be showing its SOSA and VITA aligned suite of products at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. New Wave Design, a provider of high-performance FPGA-based solutions, announced the release of its new V6065 3U VPX Versal Premium Adaptive SoC FPGA Optical I/O Module with XMC Site, a module aimed at demanding applications in defense, aerospace, telecommunications, and industrial automation.

BERLIN, Germany. Rust consultancy and developer Ferrous Systems announced its membership in the Rust Foundation's newly formed Safety-Critical Rust Consortium. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, with encouragement to service members to initially experiment with using the AI tool for routine tasks including producing reports, assisting with IT issues, and computer coding.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). RF and microwave component provider SV Microwave will be showing its SOSA and VITA aligned suite of products at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

PHOENIX, Ariz. Spirit Electronics, an end-to-end supply-chain services company, announced that it now offers authorized distribution for ISOCOM Limited, an optoelectronics and microelectronics manufacturer based in the U.K. that serves the defense and aerospace industries.

NASHUA, N.H. BAE Systems won a $95 million U.S. Navy contract to supply advanced electronic warfare (EW) countermeasure pods to protect the P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime aircraft from missiles and other threats; the EW pods are designed to detect and counter inbound threats to protect the Poseidon and its crew plus expand the aircraft’s operating range in contested environments.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. Aitech Systems announced the M622, a fully managed 10 GbE/40 GbE Ethernet switch/router on an XMC that is designed for use in embedded and harsh-environment applications with SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) constraints.

ORLANDO, Fla. EIZO Rugged Solutions debuted a new high-performance embedded computing module called the Condor AGX-ORIN64-HPC, a Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) aligned 3U VPX single-board computer (SBC) based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module (SoM).

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Amphenol Printed Circuits, a Nashua, New Hampshire-based maker of mission-critical printed circuit boards, will be showing its products and tools at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

WASHINGTON. Mission-critical data protection company Star Lab Corp. (a Wind River company) announced that its Kevlar Embedded Security product will now feature data protection capabilities at-rest and runtime for Linux-based embedded systems.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Altum RF, a company based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, says that it will show its RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave semiconductors at the IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The Space Development Agency (SDA -- a unit of the U.S. Space Force) debuted its its Hybrid Acquisition for Proliferated LEO (HALO) program, which aims to assemble a pool of pre-approved vendors that are eligible to compete for upcoming space and satellite demonstration projects.