D.P. Taylor

Arlington

Writer, editor, journo, DC-area native, depressed sports fan. I've covered the Pentagon since 2007, and now I think in acronyms.

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Air defense system hardware contract awarded to Kratos

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News SAN DIEGO, California. Kratos Defense & Security Solutions won a sole-source contract valued at approximately $30 million to produce air defense system hardware for a U.S. national security customer, the company announced in a statement. The work will be carried out at a secure Kratos facility, and further details on the program were not disclosed due to security and competitive considerations, the statement reads.
Missile defense satellite payload production facility expanded by L3Harris

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News FORT WAYNE, Indiana. L3Harris Technologies has completed a $125 million expansion of its Fort Wayne space systems facility to increase production capacity for satellite-based missile warning and defense programs, the company announced in a statement. The upgraded facility now spans 95,000 square feet and will support engineering, integration, testing, and program management activities related to missile tracking satellite payloads, the statement reads.
Altera to become independent FPGA firm under majority investment by Silver Lake

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News SANTA CLARA, California. Intel reached an agreement to sell a 51% stake in its Altera business to private equity firm Silver Lake, establishing Altera as an independent company focused solely on field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions, the company announced in a statement. Valued at $8.75 billion, the transaction positions Altera as the largest standalone FPGA provider and is expected to close in the second half of 2025, pending regulatory approval.
AI-based situational awareness system to be integrated into Czech armored vehicles

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News PARDUBICE, Czech Republic. Retia entered into a strategic partnership with Israeli company Axon Vision to integrate artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled situational awareness systems into Czech-manufactured armored vehicles, the company announced in a statement.
SOSA aligned 3U OpenVPX air transport rack enclosures introduced by Pixus Technologies

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News TONAWANDA, New York. Pixus Technologies introduced a new line of air transport rack (ATR) enclosures to support high-speed data throughput that is based on the 3U OpenVPX form factor and aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement. The enclosures utilize the ARINC 404 5/8 size format and support slot profiles with RF and optical backplane interfaces, the statement reads.
Mine countermeasures technology demonstrated in U.S.-ROK exercise off Korean coast

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News AT SEA, South Korea. The U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) concluded a bilateral mine countermeasures exercise known as Korean Spring Exercise on April 16, aimed at enhancing combined proficiency in mine warfare operations, the U.S. Navy announced in a statement. The 10-day training event, held off South Korea’s southeastern coast, involved coordinated mine hunting, detection, and neutralization, including underwater detonations of simulated mines.
Swarming software and high-density motors selected by GA-ASI for technology investment

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News SAN DIEGO, California. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) will invest in two Dutch companies—Emergent Swarm Solutions and Saluqi Motors—following their participation in the 2024 Blue Magic Netherlands (BMN) innovation event, the company announced in a statement. Emergent Swarm Solutions develops decentralized autonomy software for uncrewed systems, with a focus on swarming algorithms and intelligent coordination.
F-35 data shared in-flight with Dutch C2 system during Ramstein Flag exercise

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News LEEUWARDEN AIR BASE, Netherlands. The Royal Netherlands Air Force and Lockheed Martin Skunk Works demonstrated the first live, in-flight transfer of classified F-35 targeting data to a non-U.S. command-and-control system during the Ramstein Flag multi-domain operations exercise, the company announced in a statement.
Mobile ad hoc network technology from Persistent Systems to support U.S. Navy

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News NEW YORK, New York. Persistent Systems was added to the U.S. Navy’s Family of Systems (FoS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide data link technologies for unmanned surface vessels (USVs), the company announced in a statement. The contract, which has a ceiling of $982.1 million and includes 88 contractors, is aimed at advancing the Navy’s integration of USVs into fleet operations.
Dual traveling wave tubes from Thales delivered for Optus-11 satellite

1 week ago | militaryembedded.com | D.P. Taylor

News ULM, Germany. Thales delivered a full set of dual traveling wave tubes (TWTs) for the Optus-11 satellite, a Ku-band spacecraft developed by Airbus Defence and Space under the OneSat reconfigurable satellite program, the company announced in a statement. The dual-TWTs, designed to amplify radio frequency signals in satellite systems, are engineered to reduce size and weight while maintaining high performance, the statement reads.