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.

Social Mobile announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase II contract focused on a 5G mobile solution to investigate its potential to fill capability gaps in the Department of the Air Force (DAF). Through the contract, Social Mobile will collaborate with the DAF to design and deliver a handheld and chest-mountable device that leverages Android Enterprise and is built to military-grade specifications.

PASADENA, Calif. Virtualitics, an Artificial Intelligence and Data Exploration company, today announced that Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), a major command of the United States Air Force, has expanded its partnership with Virtualitics to establish a Center of Excellence and deliver AI-enabled software solutions for the bomber and missile weapon systems to increase aircraft availability and mission readiness. With Virtualitics, AFGSC will benefit from industry-leading technology to deliver predictive maintenance, inventory management, supply chain optimization, and manpower resource allocation. Connecting these enterprise solutions ensures that not only are aircraft maintenance needs identified, but they are also aligned with the exact resources and parts available.

SAN FRANCISCO. Okta, Inc., a leading independent identity provider, today announced Okta for US Military – a new IL4 identity environment built exclusively for the DoD and approved mission partners. Hosted on the .mil domain (okta.mil), it is a modern, cloud-native identity solution for DoD identity data categorized as Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) that requires IL4-level protection.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. Three new General Micro Systems (GMS) innovations won Best of Show from Military Embedded Systems magazine at the Association for the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition in Washington, D.C.

Advanced Navigation, the world’s most determined innovator in artificial intelligence for robotic and navigation technologies is announcing Boreas D70, a fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation system (INS).

WORK Microwave, a leading European manufacturer of advanced defence and satellite communications equipment, will demonstrate its latest best-in-class RF technology for defence applications, including radar and SIGINT, at the 2022 AOC International Symposium & Convention, Booth #553.