Military Embedded Systems

2025 AUSA ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION--WASHINGTON, D.C. Elma Electronic now offers the industry’s first development chassis for VNX+ (VITA 90) modules. The 3-slot FlexVNX+ -- aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, approach -- enables rapid board bring-up, validation, and testing of VNX+ plug-in cards (PICs), allowing system engineers to quickly and effectively evaluate and integrate VNX+ payload modules. 

2025 AUSA ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION--WASHINGTON, D.C. Ruggedized-display provider Industrial Electronic Engineers (IEE) will showcase its lineup of multi-function display (MFD) technologies during the upcoming AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, set to be held October 13-15, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

2025 AUSA ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION--WASHINGTON, D.C. Autonomous targeting/engagement company AimLock announced that it will partner with ground-autonomy provider Overland AI to integrate the AimLock systems into Overland's ULTRA autonomous battlefield vehicle. The companies will debut the partnership during the upcoming AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, set to be held October 13-15, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon (an RTX business) signed an agreement with the German government to provide the Raytheon-built SPY-6(V)1 radar for installation on eight of its F127 frigates under a requested foreign military sales (FMS) contract with the U.S. Navy, making Germany the first international customer for SPY-6.

2025 AUSA ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION--WASHINGTON, D.C. Defense Technology company Reveal Technology will feature its suite of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled products that generate critical intelligence, autonomy, and decision dominance for tactical military/public-safety users at the upcoming AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, set to be held October 13-15, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. The U.S. Army has awarded Pacific Defense a multiyear contract for the Army’s C5ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) Mounted Form Factor (CMFF) Mounted Common Infrastructure (MCI), what the company calls a major part of the Army’s acceleration of networked warfighting capabilities.  

2025 AUSA ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION--WASHINGTON, D.C. Ask Sage will highlight its generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions during the upcoming AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, set to be held October 13-15, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

2025 AUSA ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION--WASHINGTON, D.C. Defense engineering company SRC intends to show several of its products during the upcoming AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, set to be held October 13-15, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

NASA COLUMBIA SCIENTIFIC BALLOON FACILITY, New Mex. NASA recently launched a telescope designed and built by a team at University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) and the space agency that aims to identify planets beyond the solar system and find other objects in space that would otherwise go unnoticed because they are hidden by the glare of nearby stars.

CEDAR PARK, Tex. Defense-technology company Firefly Aerospace announced that it agreed to acquire defense-analytics firm SciTec, Inc. (Princeton, New Jersey) for approximately $855 million. 

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. Ground-based radar designer/manufacturer Blighter reports that it won a follow-on contract from a military customer in Southeast Asia to supply its Blighter B400 series radars for border surveillance.

SPACE SYSTEMS COMMAND -- Peterson Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colo. & Los Angeles Air Force Base, El Segundo, Calif. The U.S. Space Force announced the operational acceptance of its Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS), a next-generation space-domain awareness (SDA) analysis system and software-acquisiton program designed to modernize and enhance the capabilities of the Space Defense Operations Center.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. Katalyst Space Technologies has secured a contract from NASA to raise the orbit of the space agency's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory; the observatory's orbit is decaying faster than NASA had anticipated due to higher-than-expected atmopsheric drag.

SAN DIEGO. Cubic Defense's Secure Communications business unit won a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to advance Halo, its multilink, multiband, multi-orbit hybrid satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna.

LOWELL, Mass. Technology firm AiRANACULUS recently won a NASA contract to develop an advanced communications platform -- leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-based wireless network solutions -- that will be used to support exploration of the lunar surface.

LOS ANGELES. Manufacturing company Machina Labs, which deals in advanced manufacturing that combines artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics for the rapid production of metal structures, announced that it won a contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in partnership with the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Manufacturing Innovation Institute based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency -- a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) agency -- awarded the Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contract IV (CTRIC IV) to six companies: Amentum, Black & Veatch, Fluor, Parsons Corp., V2X, and Jacobs. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract has a total ceiling of $3.5 billion over 10 years.

ARLINGTON, Va. Raytheon (an RTX business) reports that the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command and a Raytheon team successfully executed the longest known AMRAAM [advanced medium-range air-to-air missile] missile shot by a fifth-generation fighter. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) embarked on the initial phase of its Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program, the agency's effort to make quantum sensing viable beyond the lab and find uses on the ground, at sea, in the air, and even in space.

WASHINGTON. The global market for 3D and 4D military radars -- valued at $10.5 billion in 2024 -- is expected to undergo subtantial growth, to $17.2 billion by 2033, at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.1%, according to a new report from Verified Market Reports.