Military Embedded Systems

MCLEAN, Va. Engineering firm Alion Science and Technology has won a $75 million task order to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's (AFLCMC) Fighters & Advanced Aircraft Directorate and Bombers Directorate (AFLCMC/WA and AFLCMC/WB, respectively), which provide state-of-the-art technical support for every U.S. Air Force (USAF) fighter and bomber weapon system currently in the USAF inventory supporting U.S. joint services and several foreign military partners. 

FAIRFAX, Va. Image-processing company Logos Technologies has won a $6.7 million contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to develop, deliver, and perform proof-of-concept flight tests on a wide-area motion imagery (WAMI) sensor that will be integrated onto small tactical unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) by the Navy and Marine Corps.

AMSTERDAM. The total global defense budget -- estimated at around $1.8 trillion in 2020 -- is expected to grow to more than $2 trillion by 2028, at a combined annual growth rate of around 3%, according to a study by Market Forecast, "Global Defense Budget Analysis - Forecast to 2028."

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. and VIRGINIA BEACH, Vir. Radar-integration company Cambridge Pixel and maritime-autonomy contractor Spatial Integrated Systems (SIS) report successful trials of a suite of complementary and interdependent systems aiming at increased maritime autonomy and radar integration on U.S. Navy autonomous surface vessel (ASVs).

WASHINGTON. The U.S. Air Force's Digital Engineering Enterprise Office (DEEO) has awarded cybersecurity firm Corsha (Tyson's Corner, Virginia) a $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract for an initiative to deploy the Corsha cloud-native, scalable API Security Platform to secure mission-critical data-in-motion across U.S Air Force platforms.

LOUISVILLE, Colo. Small-satellite company ASTRA [Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates] has won a contract from the U.S. Space Force's (USSF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to develop and demonstrate an electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) sensor-driven low Earth orbit (LEO)-based cloud characterization solution using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology to support U.S. warfighter operations.

CICERO, N.Y. Technology and engineering firm SRC has won a contract from the U.S. Army -- worth up to $426 million over the next five years -- to supply the Army with mobile systems that use radar, cameras, jamming technology, and other sensors to detect, track, identify, and defeat hostile unmanned aerial systems (UASs) on the battlefield..

BURLINGTON, Ontario. L3Harris Technologies has received an eight-year, $380 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract from the Canadian government to procure additional WESCAM MX-Series electro-optic, infrared airborne technology products and services in support of U.S. Army surveillance and targeting operations around the world.

WASHINGTON The U.S. Air Force has chosen Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics and Kratos to move forward in the Air Force program to build an AI-enabled drone wingman known as Skyborg; each company will operate under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth as much as $400 million.

ROME. The operational version of the Leonardo M-346 Fighter Attack aircraft equipped with an optimized variant of Leonardo’s Grifo radar recently completed a successful initial flight, the company reports.

SAN DIEGO. BAE Systems has signed an initial order with the U.S. Army under the service's Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Capability Drop 2 Program -- a multiple-award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract worth up to $823 million -- under which BAE Systems will provide systems enabling enhanced intelligence to see and better understand threats and other relevant aspects of the operational environment.

TUCSON, Ariz. Raytheon Missiles & Defense reports delivery of the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar array for installation on the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), the U.S. Navy's first Flight III guided-missile destroyer. 

ANDOVER, Mass. Mercury Systems has received $11.7 million in orders against its previously announced $152 million five-year sole-source basic ordering agreement (BOA) to deliver advanced digital RF memory (DRFM) jammers to the U.S. Navy. 

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S, a Raytheon Technologies business) has agreed to provide an initial prototype system design for the Next Generation Electro-Optical Infrared Weather Satellite for the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center.

HUDSON, N.H. BAE Systems has signed a $33 million multiyear contract with the U.S. Army to further develop its Long Range Precision Guidance Kit (LR-PGK) for 155 mm artillery shells, which will enable the Army to take advantage of BAE Systems' enhanced antijam GPS-based navigation and antenna array aimed at improving long-range precision strikes in challenging electromagnetic environments. 

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Aerojet Rocketdyne reports successful completion of its second series of propulsion-system tests in support of the Operational Fires (OpFires) program, a project spearheaded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a ground-launched tactical hypersonic missile.

BANGALORE. The global unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market size is projected to reach $133.5 billion by 2026, up from $25.9 billion in 2019, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.4% during 2021 to 2026, according to a recent study by Valuates Reports, "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Market Research Report 2020."

BOULDER, Colo. Ball Aerospace has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop a prototype of a new multiband, low-observable satellite communications antenna that will be installed on the U.S. Navy's newest stealth-enabled ships, the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers.

SAN DIEGO. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc (GA-ASI) has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to make and deliver a total of 16 Protector RG Mk1 remotely piloted air systems (RPAS).

COLUMBIA, Md. Systems Engineering Group (SEG) -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephonics Corp. -- has won a threat-engineering task order worth $119 million from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD).