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.
Military Embedded Systems
Industry News
Ethernet switch/router aims at connectivity within OpenVPX or SOSA aligned embedded system - News
June 05, 2024CHATSWORTH, 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.
1st Gray Eagle 25M drone for Army National Guard to be built by GA-ASI - News
June 04, 2024SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will provide the first 12 Gray Eagle 25M (GE 25M) uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) to the Army National Guard, the company announced in a statement.
SOSA aligned SBC for C5ISR AI at the edge debuts from EIZO Rugged Solutions - News
June 04, 2024ORLANDO, 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).
Naval surveillance radars for Belgian, Dutch frigates to be supplied by Terma - News
June 04, 2024COPENHAGEN, Denmark. Terma won a contract to equip four anti-submarine warfare frigates, two for the Belgian Navy and two for the Netherlands Navy, with SCANTER 6002 naval surveillance radars -- an agreement that involves collaboration with Damen Naval and RH Marine to integrate these radar systems onto the vessels, the company announced in a statement.
Mission-critical PCBs from Amphenol Printed Circuits to be shown at IMS 2024 - News
June 04, 2024WASHINGTON, 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.
Data security at the edge gets boost from new Kevlar Embedded Security features - News
June 03, 2024WASHINGTON. 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.
Altum RF will show semiconductor products for defense at IMS 2024 - News
June 03, 2024WASHINGTON, 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.
New satellite program from Space Development Agency enables newer vendors to compete - News
June 03, 2024ARLINGTON, 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.
UAS contract signed between AFWERX, RapidFlight - News
June 03, 2024MANASSAS, 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.
AR head-mounted display contract signed by U.S. Air Force innovation arm - News
June 03, 2024ROCHESTER, 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).
Durability testing of new drone engine completed by GA-ASI - News
May 31, 2024SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) completed durability testing of its 200-horsepower Heavy Fuel Engine (HFE) 2.0 at its flight facility in El Mirage, California, the company announced in a statement. This engine is slated to power the new Gray Eagle 25M uncrewed aerial system (UAS) and aims to extend maintenance intervals.
Bell X-plane progresses under DARPA development program - News
May 31, 2024FORT WORTH, Texas. Bell Textron Inc. has moved into Phase 1B of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) X-Plane program, the company announced in a statement.
IMS 2024 debut for Samtec cable, connector offerings - News
May 31, 2024WASHINGTON, 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.
Keysight to demo tech accelerating spectrum innovations at IMS 2024 - News
May 30, 2024WASHINGTON, 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.
Avionics
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The FACE Technical Standard: Enabling modular, open, and future-proof avionics systems
December 04, 2025
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Training and simulation systems to support Saab GlobalEye under new CAE agreement
November 21, 2025
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Next-gen pilot training system to be developed by Saab, Boeing, and BAE Systems
November 19, 2025
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KC-390 refueling capability validated with Gripen E in Brazilian test campaign
November 17, 2025
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GUEST BLOG: MOSA is the conduit for commercial insertion … but there is a floor to commoditization
December 12, 2025
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RF and microwave, radar and electronic warfare products garner awards
December 11, 2025
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New EW signal generator partnership aims to close realism gap in lab testing
December 11, 2025
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Company's open-systems hub aims to simplify VPX sourcing for defense designers
December 11, 2025
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GUEST BLOG: AI-powered transformations ahead -- three predictions for 2026
December 12, 2025
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GUEST BLOG: The next innovation in AI for defense -- autonomous purple teaming
December 12, 2025
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DISA chief to industry: 'your system is not interesting' without data sharing
December 11, 2025
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Generative AI, cognitive electronic warfare to anchor technical track at AOC 2025
December 04, 2025
Cyber
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DoD awards Hewlett Packard Enterprise a 10-year contract for cloud computing upgrades
December 01, 2025
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PRODUCT OF THE WEEK: Atek DataKey Mini-Bar Crypto Ignition Key series
November 10, 2025
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Network and cyber support contract signed between Sev1Tech and Navy command
October 15, 2025
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Firefly Aerospace to acquire SciTec, Inc.
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