Military Embedded Systems

MANASSAS, Va. Uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designer/manufacturer RapidFlight signed a contract worth as much as $10 million with the U.S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) AFWERX Autonomy Prime program to develop and produce a customizable, autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft system known as the SPX.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. Augmented-reality (AR) technology company Vuzix won a U.S. Air Force Smart Business Innovative Research (SBIR) AFWERX Phase I contract focused on developing AR head-mounted display (HMD) gear to address pressing vision challenges in the Department of the Air Force (DAF).

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Connector company Samtec, Inc. announced that it will feature numerous live demonstrations of new and existing products specifically targeted at microwave and millimeter wave applications at the IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Microwave and radio frequency (RF) experts from Keysight (Colorado Springs, Colorado) will showcase solutions that accelerate spectrum innovations to help customers optimize 5G and pioneer 6G applications at the IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

TOULON, France. Embedded-computing company Kontron released the XMC-ETH6, a high-performance Gigabit Ethernet XMC designed to enhance the networking capabilities of VPX or VME single-board computers (SBCs). 

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense reports that it signed a contract modification with Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) to provide engineering support services for a demonstration in Guam, Valiant Shield ‘24; Valiant Shield is a biennial U.S. warfighting training exercise that takes place around Guam with participation from the Navy, Army, and Air Force that focuses on integration of joint training among U.S. and partner-nation forces in relation to current operational plans. 

WASHINGTON. Launch-infrastructure company The Spaceport Company (TSC) won a contract with the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to deliver cargo and enable greater access to space by leveraging a unique type of sea-based mobile space launch complex. 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Collins Aerospace (an RTX business) has been granted certification approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for upgrading the avionics in the Cessna Citation CJ1+/2+ aircraft registered in Europe.  

WASHINGTON. Protecting the joint force by being vigilant within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) cyber battlespace is the top issue facing the DoD and the wider defense community, stated Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert J. Skinner, who serves as both the director of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and commander of the joint headquarters for DoD's Information Network (DODIN).

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Quantic Electronics (East Providence, Rhode Island) and its business units will be showing new products for mission-critical electronics applications at the IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

PARIS. Geospatial artificial intelligence (AI) provider Preligens (formerly called Earthcube) won a contract with an unnamed customer in the Asia-Pacific region to provide AI analytics software on high-volume government satellite imagery.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Several of the technical sessions at the IMS 2024 conference -- set to be held June 16-21, 2024 -- will feature keynote speakers from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. Lockheed Martin won a contract with the U.S. Army -- worth $756 million -- to deliver additional capability for the U.S.'s ground-based hypersonic weapon system, the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW).  

Pixus Technologies, a provider of embedded computing and enclosure solutions, now offers a pluggable Tier 3 SOSA aligned chassis management module for OpenVPX.

MENLO PARK, Calif. Space safety and security firm LeoLabs announced it received a second Consolidated Pathfinder order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Space Commerce (OSC) to continue work on the development of the civil-led, U.S. Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).

FALLS CHURCH, Va. General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) won a recompete task order worth $185 million to provide cybersecurity services for the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) worldwide.

In early April 2024, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI – Troy, New York) and IBM officially unveiled the world’s first IBM quantum computer on a university campus. The IBM Quantum System One was lauded by university and company officials as key to helping the nation solve some of the world’s most complex problems, including those leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in the military and defense realm.

SYRACUSE, NY. Technology and engineering company SRC Inc. has been tapped to supply the Polish military with 15 more of the SRC SR Hawk surveillance radar systems for installation aboard Poland's BWR-1D/S Reconnaissance Fighting Vehicles.  

KIRKLAND, Wash. Radar platform provider Echodyne announced that its EchoFlight radar is integrated into the American Aerospace Technologies, Inc. (AATI) AiRanger aircraft, which recently obtained a waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week for commercial beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight operations, which enables AATI to use the onboard detect-and-avoid (DAA) system to adhere to aircraft right-of-way rules during BVLOS operations. The waiver means that the AiRanger is the first uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) to meet industry consensus standards for the DAA system, the company says.

NASHUA, N.H. BAE Systems signed a contract with the U.S. Navy to develop Dual Band Decoy (DBD) radio frequency (RF) countermeasures, an advanced RF self-protection jammer that shields fighter jets from enemy attacks.