Military Embedded Systems

MONTRÉAL, Canada. Bombardier Defense will provide three Global 6500 aircraft for maritime surveillance missions operated by Metrea for the Australian Border Force, the company announced in a statement.

ARLINGTON, Virginia. AeroVironment received an additional $20.2 million government investment to expand its Huntsville, Alabama facility for production of the Freedom Eagle-1 interceptor, the company announced in a statement.

CHATSWORTH, California. Aitech released two rugged single-board computers (SBCs) for military and aerospace systems that use Intel 14th generation Core Ultra processors for edge processing and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) workloads, the company announced in a statement.

WATERLOO, Ontario. Pixus Technologies released the ruggedized RX420 NI software-defined radios (SDRs), which use Emerson’s NI Ettus universal software radio peripheral (USRP) X420, the company announced in a statement.

SARASOTA, Florida. Mountain Horse Solutions, working with AG3 Labs and Draganfly, was selected to take part in the Drone Dominance Program Phase II Qualifier in June 2026 at Camp Grayling, Michigan, the company announced in a statement.

LONG BEACH, California. Rocket Lab won a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command to design, build, integrate, and operate two geostationary orbit satellites carrying Heimdall space domain awareness payloads, the company announced in a statement.

HAIFA, Israel. Elbit Systems won a contract worth about $1.4 billion from a European customer for military modernization programs, the company announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) commander Adm. Frank Bradley used his keynote address at SOF Week to warn a room full of defense industry executives about one of the most important developments on the modern battlefield: the migration of commercial technology into adversary weapons systems. Both his remarks and technology showcased on the trade show floor indicate that the organization is in a race against adversaries to use that technology on the battlefield.

TAMPA, Florida. U.S. Special Operations Command is quietly assembling the institutional architecture of an organization that functions less like a combatant command and more like a full military department -- with its own civilian secretariat, its own acquisition system, its own industry ecosystem, and its own direct relationships with Congress and allied partners, a week of senior leadership keynotes and briefings at SOF Week 2026 revealed.

TAMPA, Florida. Frontgrade Technologies is showcasing its Modular Amplified Communications Suite (MACS) at SOF Week this week, displaying a scalable communications architecture designed for rapid deployment across tactical environments and vehicles of opportunity, the company says.

TAMPA, Florida. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict (SOLIC) will hold its first quarterly industry day on July 24 in Washington, D.C., official in charge of the office announced during his keynote address at SOF Week.

TAMPA, Florida. Annapolis Micro Systems displayed its WILDSTAR SAF2 Small Form Factor Module at SOF Week this week, with the company pitching the system as a portable, high-performance signal processing solution designed for special operations forces operating in austere environments.

TAMPA, Florida. The head of Shield AI says that operating in GPS-denied environments remains a top challenge for the autonomous military systems industry, arguing that the vast majority of autonomous systems on the market cannot function in the communications-jammed environments that define modern battlefields.

TAMPA, Florida. The commander of Special Operations Command Africa said his command is looking at using the continent's operating environment to develop and refine emerging capabilities that cannot be tested in higher-end theaters without exposing them to adversary observation.

TAMPA, Florida. Senior special operations commanders cautioned this week against wholesale adoption of tactics and technologies from the war in Ukraine, arguing that future fights will require a different framework even as the conflict offers critical organizational lessons.

TAMPA, Florida. L3Harris Technologies has delivered 18 of its OA-1K Skyraider II armed overwatch aircraft to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), with the program now under contract for 45 aircraft and targeting combat deployment in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2027, Jason Lambert, ISR sector president for L3Harris, told reporters during SOF Week.

TAMPA, Florida. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) officially unveiled the name of the AGM-190A small cruise missile as "Havoc Spear" at SOF Week 2026 on May 19, marking a milestone in the command's Enhanced Precision Effects (EPE) modernization initiative, the command announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. Legion Intelligence is showcasing two new products at SOF Week 2026: a set of role-specific AI agent packages called Mission Packs and a new ultra-small form factor edge AI system called Centurion III.

TAMPA, Florida. BlackSea Technologies displayed its Comet unmanned surface vessel at SOF Week 2026 this week at Dock 18 on the Tampa Convention Center waterfront, the company announced in a statement.

TAMPA, Florida. AeroVironment (AV) is showcasing MAYHEM 10, a modular, multi-role launched weapon designed for contested environments, at SOF Week 2026 this week.