Military Embedded Systems

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. New Wave Design, a provider of high-performance FPGA-based solutions, announced the release of its new V6065 3U VPX Versal Premium Adaptive SoC FPGA Optical I/O Module with XMC Site, a module aimed at demanding applications in defense, aerospace, telecommunications, and industrial automation.

BERLIN, Germany. Rust consultancy and developer Ferrous Systems announced its membership in the Rust Foundation's newly formed Safety-Critical Rust Consortium. 

ARLINGTON, Va. The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force launched an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, with encouragement to service members to initially experiment with using the AI tool for routine tasks including producing reports, assisting with IT issues, and computer coding.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS). RF and microwave component provider SV Microwave will be showing its SOSA and VITA aligned suite of products at the upcoming IMS 2024 conference, to be held June 16-21, 2024. 

PHOENIX, Ariz. Spirit Electronics, an end-to-end supply-chain services company, announced that it now offers authorized distribution for ISOCOM Limited, an optoelectronics and microelectronics manufacturer based in the U.K. that serves the defense and aerospace industries.

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.

CHATSWORTH, 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.

ORLANDO, 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).

WASHINGTON, 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. 

WASHINGTON. 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.

WASHINGTON, 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. 

ARLINGTON, 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.

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.