Military & Aerospace Electronics

From its inception, Military & Aerospace Electronics has maintained its position as a leading source for information on Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) topics. It excels in reporting both successful and unsuccessful COTS cases, as well as the latest trends in this area. The articles delve into guidance for designers on the appropriate use of military-spec, non-developmental items, or COTS equipment and components. Additionally, the feature pieces tackle relevant topics such as design trends, new standards, funding programs, contracts, and inspiring application success stories.

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Firefly Aerospace unveils commercial lunar imaging service

5 days ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

Summary points:Commercial Lunar Imaging Launch: Firefly Aerospace will begin offering commercial lunar imaging through its Ocula service in 2026, using Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory telescopes onboard its Elytra vehicles. Multi-Mission Utility: Ocula's data will support space exploration, landing site planning, and national security ISR. The first mission will follow Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 2, with a second deployment planned for 2028.
Southwest selects Honeywell runway safety tech

1 week ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

Summary points:Fleetwide Activation: Southwest Airlines is outfitting its entire Boeing 737 fleet—over 700 aircraft—with Honeywell’s SmartRunway and SmartLanding software, enhancing runway safety via real-time alerts during taxi, takeoff, and landing. Improved Pilot Situational Awareness: The software, enabled by Honeywell’s EGPWS, provides aural and visual alerts to help pilots avoid excessive speed, incorrect runway alignment, or unstable approaches, aiming to reduce runway incidents.
Greenerwave and Safran partner on Ka-band SATCOM terminal for IFC

1 week ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

Summary points:Full-Fleet Ka-Band Connectivity: Greenerwave and Safran Passenger Innovations are jointly developing a compact, energy-efficient Ka-band SATCOM terminal compatible with all current and future NGSO constellations, aiming to reduce costs and improve in-flight connectivity performance.
Electro-optical sensors and signal processing merge for new capabilities

1 week ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

Summary points:Integrated Electro-Optical and Directed Energy Systems: Modern electro-optical sensors are now part of complex, multi-domain systems that combine RF, embedded computing, and artificial intelligence to support rapid decision-making and real-time threat engagement. Technologies like the U.S. Army’s DE M-SHORAD and the Navy’s Layered Laser Defense (LLD) integrate high-energy lasers with advanced sensing for precision strikes and enhanced situational awareness.
Radiation-hardened branches out from New Space

1 week ago | militaryaerospace.com | John Keller

Summary points:New Space is driving demand for cost-effective, radiation-tolerant electronics by favoring design trade-offs such as plastic-packaged components, redundancy, and software voting instead of traditional, costly radiation-hardened parts to meet low-Earth orbit (LEO) mission needs promptly and affordably.
Vaya Space taps Velo3D to produce additively manufactured rocket engine parts

1 week ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

Summary points:Velo3D and Vaya Space have signed a $4 million, two-year agreement to produce high-performance rocket engine components using advanced metal additive manufacturing technologies. Velo3D will serve as the exclusive provider of GRCop42 components for Vaya Space through 2027, supplying parts made with copper alloy GRCop42 and Inconel 718 via its Sapphire XC and XC1MZ 3D printers.
XTI Aerospace taps Oak Ridge supercomputer in development of its TriFan 600 VTOL

2 weeks ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - XTI Aerospace, Inc., in Englewood, Colo., announced developments in the design of its TriFan 600 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, completing more than 1,500 complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer.
Trump executive order aims to cement U.S. UAS, eVTOL leadership in industry

2 weeks ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

WASHINGTON - President Donald J. Trump has signed a sweeping Executive Order to strengthen America's leadership in uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), directing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and other agencies to expand drone operations, support domestic manufacturing, and accelerate advanced air mobility initiatives. The order instructs the FAA to enable routine "Beyond Visual Line of Sight" (BVLOS) drone operations for commercial and public safety missions.
NASA and NOAA seek industry partners for space weather sensor development

2 weeks ago | militaryaerospace.com | Jamie Whitney

GREENBELT, Md. - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are inviting feedback from industry ahead of a formal solicitation for the development of a new space weather sensor. The X-Ray Irradiance Sensor (XRIS) will fly aboard the second Space weather Observations at Lagrange 1 (SOL) observatory, part of a joint mission to improve solar monitoring capabilities crucial to national infrastructure protection.
Navy taps Pacific Defense to run electronic warfare (EW) algorithms on open-systems embedded computing

2 weeks ago | militaryaerospace.com | John Keller

ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. Navy electronic warfare (EW) experts needed to a company to host optimize EW algorithms to run on modern open-systems embedded computing systems. They found a solution from Pacific Defense Inc. in El Segundo, Calif.