Military Embedded Systems

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. Northrop Grumman’s newest MQ-4C Triton uncrewed aircraft is undergoing flight testing with the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command, the company announced in a statement.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands. The Dutch Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with Rheinmetall Defence Nederland to deliver 20 Ermine ground vehicles to the Ukrainian armed forces, the company announced in a statement.

GETAFE, Spain. The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) ordered two more Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft, expanding the Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) to 12 aircraft, Airbus announced in a statement.

CLEAR, Alaska. The Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), built by Lockheed Martin, detected, tracked, and discriminated a live ballistic missile target during Flight Test Other-26a (FTX-26a), the company announced in a statement.

JAKARTA, Indonesia. Exail will provide the Indonesian Navy with multiple uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) and mine identification and disposal systems (MIDS) under a new contract, the company announced in a statement.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket successfully launched Amazon’s Kuiper 2 mission from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 23 at 6:54 a.m. EDT, the company announced in a statement.

HARWELL, United Kingdom. Telespazio UK won a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to serve as prime contractor for the ground segment of the Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial- and Helio-Studies (TRUTHS) Earth Watch mission, the company announced in a statement.

BOSTON, Massachusetts. Teledyne FLIR Defense’s Black Hornet 4 personal reconnaissance system has been approved for inclusion on the Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Blue UAS list after completing cybersecurity and NDAA compliance reviews, the company announced in a statement.

PICATINNY ARSENAL, New Jersey. BAE Systems is collaborating with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center (DEVCOM-AC) to advance upgrades to the M109-52 self-propelled howitzer prototype, the company announced in a statement.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden. INVISIO received an order valued at approximately SEK 145 million from a new European customer for its dismounted soldier communications systems, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Thales and Danish defense manufacturer Terma signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand cooperation across the air and air defense, naval, and space sectors, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) signed an agreement with Airbus Helicopters to explore crewed-uncrewed teaming between the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s (RSAF) H225M medium-lift helicopter and Airbus’ Flexrotor uncrewed aerial system (UAS), Airbus announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. The Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania selected the Embraer C-390 Millennium as its next-generation military transport aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UAS Denmark Test Center, based at Hans Christian Andersen Airport in Odense, to jointly utilize the center’s airspace and test facilities for uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) demonstrations, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Eve Air Mobility signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Future Flight Global for the potential purchase of up to 54 electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for operations in Brazil and the United States, the company announced in a statement.

LOS ANGELES, California. The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) added Silvus Technologies’ StreamCaster LITE 5200 (SL5200) OEM module to the Blue UAS Framework, the company announced in a statement.

MONTREAL, Canada. Haivision released an updated version of its Kraken video processing platform that integrates AI-enabled object detection through Shield AI’s Tracker software, Haivision announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. Five uncrewed aerial system (UAS) designs developed under DARPA’s AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY (ANCILLARY) program will begin flight testing this month to evaluate vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) performance and mission versatility, DARPA announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Embraer signed a contract with the Netherlands to deliver an aeromedical evacuation system for the Royal Netherlands Air Force C-390 Millennium fleet, the company announced in a statement.

PARIS, France. Raytheon announced at the Paris Air Show that the Kingdom of Norway will join in the development of the GhostEye radar, a mobile medium-range air and missile defense sensor for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS), the company announced in a statement.