ORLANDO. Simulation and training software company Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) has named Rahul C. Thakkar as its new president, effective immediately. 

MINNEAPOLIS. New Wave Design and Verification, a leading provider of high-performance digital electronic interface solutions for the defense and aerospace industries, has appointed Ike Song to its Advisory Committee. With more than twenty years of industry leadership experience, Song brings valuable insight into the challenges of successfully developing and delivering the technology needed to serve the growing demands of the Aerospace and Defense industry.   

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. Avionics and military integrated circuit maker Holt Integrated Circuits announced that Raytheon Technologies has recognized Holt Integrated Circuits with a Premier Award for performance in 2022 in overall excellence in the area of cost competitiveness. 

ESCONDIDO, Calif. AI and edge computing company One Stop Systems announced it has appointed Michael Knowles as its new president and CEO, effective June 5, 2023.

VANCOUVER, Wash. Secure data-at-rest (DAR) storage provider Digistor announced that the National Security Agency (NSA) added its FIPS 140-2 L2 SSDs to the Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) list, the only commercial drives to achieve this listing. 

VANCOUVER, Wash. Secure data-at-rest (DAR) storage provider Digistor announced that its FIPS 140-2 L2 certified self-encrypting drives have achieved Common Criteria certification and are the first and only PCIe/NVMe and SATA storage devices on the National Information Assurance Partnership Product Compliant List offered at COTS-level pricing. 

BURLINGTON, Mass. Radar and AI sensing company launched MatrixSpace Radar, the first in a series of AI sensing products aimed at enabling cost-effective, long-distance sensing, tracking, monitoring, and inspection solutions.

PHOENIX, Arizona. Spirit Electronics was recognized as a top Northrop Grumman Corporation supplier for 2022 with their Strategic Excellence Award, earning the honor for providing electronic components and value-added services that support unique and critical business needs for Northrop Grumman and its customers with outstanding service, Spirit Electronics announced in a statement.

MONTVILLE, N.J.  Defense and aerospace supplier Marotta Controls has been named once again as one of New Jersey’s top workplaces by NJ Advance Media in partnership with Energage.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. New Wave Design and Verification announced that it has a new president and CEO, Marti Nyman.

IDEX 2023, ABU DHABI. AMETEK Abaco Systems and Rockford Xellerix announced a strategic sales partnership at the IDEX 2023 defense exhibition. 

CHANDLER, Ariz. Isola Group, one of the world’s leading developers and suppliers of copper-clad laminates and prepreg materials for printed circuit boards (PCBs), will be inviting visitors to the 2023 IPC APEX EXPO to learn more about its low-loss circuit materials. Isola’s material experts will offer guidance on its latest halogen-free TerraGreen® 400G series of circuit materials for halogen-free PCBs.

NEW YORK CITY. Accrete has secured a five-year multi-million dollar Other Transaction-Production (OT-P) software licensing contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for Argus™, Accrete's highly configurable, dual-use open-source threat detection AI software solution, worth tens of millions of dollars. The exact contract value and deal terms cannot be disclosed per government guidelines.

Pixus Technologies, a provider of embedded computing and enclosure solutions, has developed a high performance backplane with signals above 28Gbaud across the backplane slots. The design leverages the 6U OpenVPX form factor and VITA 66/67 RF and optical interfaces, but utilizes a special high-speed connector for the fastest data rates.

Interface Concept, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance embedded COTS boards and systems is introducing the IC-INT-VPX3k, a 3U VPX single board computer based on the 11th Gen Intel Core Xeon® W series (codename: Tiger Lake-H) processor.