NORTHBROOK, Ill. The military radar market is projected to grow from its current $13.5 billion to $17.1 billion by 2027, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% during the forecast period, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets, "Military radars market to 2027." 

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Supply-chain security firm Anchore announced a tactical funding award in the amount of $1.58 million, intended to extend its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract with the U.S. Air Force Platform One (P1) program. 

YUMA, Arizona. The U.S. Army integrated the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53) multi-mission radar with an Army command and control system to launch a counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) defeat system during a recent test, Q-53 manufacturer Lockheed Martin said in a statement.

CHICAGO, Illinois. The military embedded systems market will grow from $1.6 billion in 2022 to $2.5 billion by 2027 for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6%, a new report predicts.

WASHINGTON. Those developing the process for conforming to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard want a process that is easy to understand, is affordable, and that keeps vendors honest. SOSA representatives C. Patrick Collier, Mark Littlefield, and Ilya Lipkin outlined the status of the conformance process at a SOSA briefing held at the AOC Annual Symposium in Washington this week.

Experts in modular open systems approach (MOSA) initiatives highlight the agenda of the Aerospace Tech Week Americas MOSA Conference track November 8-9 in Atlanta. Key speakers include C. Patrick Collier, co-founder of the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium and Jeffry Howington of Collins Aerospace.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Collins Aerospace has been tapped by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to develop a modern Common VLF Receiver Increment 2 (CVRi2) communications protocol for the future Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC), a small fleet of aircraft that are being built and equipped for the highest level of government to direct military forces, deliver emergency war orders, and coordinate civil authorities in the case of destruction of ground command-and-control centers. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The goal of the recently announced Beyond Linear Processing (BLiP) program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), says the agency, is to apply innovative signal-processing methods to enable the same radar performance achieved on large platforms today but on much smaller sea, air, and ground platforms.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. Open systems integrator Pacific Defense has contracted with the U.S. Marine Corps USMC to deliver multiple SX-3000 systems in support of the MAGTF Electronic Warfare Ground Family of Systems (MEGFoS) static site system evaluation effort.

BILLERICA, Mass. Teledyne FLIR Defense has won a contract from the The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division worth $48.7 million to provide Maritime Forward Looking Infrared (MARFLIR) II sensors plus a number of variants of its SeaFLIR 280-HD surveillance systems to be implemented by the United States Coast Guard (USCG).

ASHBURN, Va. Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions announced that its Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)-based Data Transport System 1 (DTS1) network-attached storage (NAS) device was chosen by a leading U.S. system integrator for use on a small-class unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) deployment. 

LA GARDE, France. Sea trials of prototype vehicles will take place in the next three months to test the new functionalities of the Exail/ECA Group A18-M autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

59th AOC INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM & CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, DC. Engineers from Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) are offering demonstrations of some of its latest solutions for defense/aerospace and military electronics system designers this week at the 59th Annual Association of Old Crows (AOC) International Symposium & Convention. 

WHITE SANDS, New Mexico. The U.S. Marine Corps conducted a live fire test of Tamir Iron Dome interceptors from a mobile launcher as part of a test of a new prototype system for Medium Range Intercept Capability (MRIC), interceptor manufacturer Rafael announced in a statement.

NEW YORK, New York. A new report predicts that the market for small uncrewed aerial systems (UASs) will surge by $8.6 billion between 2021 and 2026 due to increased demand in both the civil and military segments.