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13 Aug 25. New Rugged GPU Modules Deliver Enhanced AI & Video Capabilities for Defense. EIZO Rugged Solutions launches Condor NVB XMC GPU cards, delivering advanced AI, video processing, and high-performance computing for compact, mission-critical defense and aerospace platforms. EIZO Rugged Solutions Inc. has released two advanced XMC form factor video graphics and AI GPGPU Coprocessor cards built on NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 2000 and RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation GPUs. The new Condor NVB2000xX and Condor NVB500xX are ideal for bringing real-time edge processing and embedded AI applications to existing CPU processors found in mission-critical environments. These compact, low-SWaP solutions deliver cutting-edge AI Inference acceleration and video processing and display capabilities in a rugged XMC form factor, making them ideal for space-constrained platforms such as ISR pods, ground vehicles, and uncrewed aircraft. Both XMC modules support up to three DisplayPort++/DVI outputs as well as the latest generation NVENC and NVDEC Video Codec Engines, enabling high-resolution mission-critical video distribution and visualization.
Christopher Fadeley, Chief Technology Officer at EIZO Rugged Solutions, said, “The Condor NVB XMC cards will be critical for the industry as they empower system integrators to rapidly bring both future and legacy platforms up to the most advanced NVIDIA AI architecture available without the need for any fundamental system redesign.”
The Condor NVB XMC series is built on NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, offering up to 8 GB of GDDR7 memory with ECC, support for PCI Express Gen 5, and features up to 3,328 CUDA cores, 5th Gen Tensor Cores, and 4th Gen RT Cores (depending on model). The NVIDIA RTX PRO GPUs bring significant performance enhancements in parallel processing, AI inferencing, and ray-traced rendering for advanced HPEC applications. The NVIDIA Blackwell architecture features compute performance upgrades, including next-generation Blackwell CUDA cores, fifth-generation Tensor Cores, and fourth-generation RT cores. The fifth-generation Tensor Cores accelerate deep learning inference, computer vision, and sensor fusion workloads while maintaining power efficiency in deployed systems.
Fadeley added, “We designed the Condor NVB series with a modular approach, offering SKUs optimized for both legacy systems with limited power budgets and PCIe bandwidth, as well as next-generation platforms that demand maximum throughput and high-speed data performance.”
The Condor NVB2000xX and Condor NVB500xX are designed to meet VITA 47.1 environmental specifications for temperature, shock, and vibration. Both XMC cards’ rear XMC pin-out is compatible with 3U VPX (VITA 46.9 x12d+x8d+24s), ensuring easy adoption into SOSA aligned and open-architecture platforms. (Source: https://www.defenseadvancement.com/)
12 Aug 25. Willog, a leading provider of IoT and AI-powered supply chain intelligence solutions, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) Army Consolidated Supply Depot(Army Logistics Command). The partnership marks a significant step in the South Korean Army’s ongoing digital transformation. Under the agreement, Willog will provide its cutting-edge technology and expertise to support the digital transformation of the Army’s supply chain. This collaboration will involve joint research, technical advisory, and the integration of Willog’s advanced ICT logistics solutions to enhance the efficiency and reliability of military logistics operations. The R.O.K. Army Consolidated Supply Depot, which oversees all logistical support for the nation’s army, is actively modernizing its capabilities by adopting technologies like unmanned forklifts and autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs). Last year, its 1st Supply Group (1st Logistics Group) became the first unit in the entire R.O.K. armed forces to receive a ‘Smart Logistics Center’ certification from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, underscoring its commitment to innovation. Under the MOU, Willog will deploy its proprietary IoT devices, which monitor not only location but also critical in-transit conditions like temperature, humidity, and shock. This data will be analyzed by Willog’s AI platform to provide predictive insights, ensuring the integrity of military assets and improving overall operational efficiency. Willog has a proven track record of applying this technology to high-risk logistics environments, including pharmaceuticals, precision instruments, and manufacturing. This partnership represents a pivotal moment, marking the company’s first major expansion into the public sector and validating its technology for a new, mission-critical environment.
“Integrating advanced private-sector technology is essential for the future of military logistics,” said an official from the Army Consolidated Supply Depot. “Through our partnership with Willog, we aim to build a more efficient and sophisticated logistics system for our armed forces.”
“This MOU marks a significant first step in the digital transformation of Korea’s military logistics,” said Sunghoon Bae, Co-CEO of Willog. “We are committed to leveraging our technology and experience to help strengthen the smart logistics capabilities of the R.O.K. Army, and eventually the Navy and Air Force as well.”
About Willog
Willog is an IoT- and AI-powered supply chain intelligence company that provides validated, real-time data and predictive analytics to manage logistics risks and enhance supply chain transparency. A recipient of the Scale-up TIPS program from the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and backed by successful Series A and B funding rounds, Willog has a proven record of market and technological innovation. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, with offices in Singapore, Japan, and the United States, Willog is actively pursuing global expansion and serves clients in the pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and distribution industries worldwide.
For more information, visit www.willog.io. (Source: PR Newswire)
12 Aug 25. Michigan bids to become America’s arsenal of rapid defense innovation. Instead of welding tank treads by the thousands, the Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan, is now 3D printing Patriot missile parts in weeks, advancing robotics and strapping virtual reality headsets on Army leadership to simulate how future weapons are being developed. In World War II, Detroit, Michigan, became the “Arsenal of Democracy,” churning out tanks, jeeps and bombers. Now, 85 years later, Michigan is again pitching itself as America’s factory floor for the future of warfare — except this time, the tools of defense are drones powered by artificial intelligence and made with 3D-printed parts in record time.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll paid a visit to Detroit on Friday, meeting with a slew of small companies working to break into the defense industry that has historically been reserved for major defense prime contractors.
Driscoll toured the Ground Vehicle Systems Center, or GVSC, with Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin, in her home state, along with a bipartisan group of other lawmakers.
“Basically 60% of what an Army soldier drives or shoots comes out of Michigan,” Slotkin told Defense News in an interview Friday. “We are a big producer and manufacturer for the Army and, of course, [the Army’s] transformation initiative went right to the heart of how [Driscoll] sees the force of the future,” she added.
“He saw everything from really cool programs of the future related to drones and tanks and ground vehicles,” Slotkin said of Driscoll’s visit. “He put on some [virtual reality] headsets and looked at one of our growing areas of expertise, which is modeling and simulation,” she noted, which helps to “shorten the string between having an idea and fielding it.”
Additionally, Driscoll toured a new incubator hub for defense technology in downtown Detroit called Newlab and met with a group of CEOs from participating companies, according to Slotkin.
Newlab, established less than a year ago, has grown into a half-mile expanse with over 150 companies, backed by a bn-dollar investment in the city’s Michigan Central Station. There, ideas move from pilot programs to manufacturing spaces to produce new defense technology, Slotkin explained.
“It’s the perfect marriage of Michiganders having the best manufacturing tradition in the country; fifth- and sixth-generation tradesmen, building precision tools with AI and tech of the future,” Slotkin said. “They’ve launched multim-dollar programs right out of downtown Detroit.”
The hub positions Michigan to level up with other states that are at the helm of fostering innovation and connecting smaller, nontraditional businesses with applicable technology to the defense industry, like Texas, where Army Futures Command is headquartered. (Source: Defense News)
12 Aug 25. Aitech, a global leader in AI-powered, rugged embedded computing systems for defense and space applications, announced the Aitech A230 Vortex AI GPGPU (general-purpose computing on graphics processing units) supercomputer, a first-of-its-kind AI-on-the-edge solution. Designed to support military operations across all environments, the A230 is available in both conduction- and forced-air-cooled-variants, making it suitable for sea, land and air platforms. Its counterpart, the S-A2300 is radiation-tolerant and specifically designed for operation in harsh Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space environments. The A230 Vortex offers AI-on-the-edge computing with near-real-time pattern of life analysis and actionable intelligence, enabling smarter decision-making and optimizing the Observe, Orient, Decide, Act (OODA) loop, even in contested and disconnected environments. Aitech announces new A230 Vortex AI GPGPU supercomputer for military operations across all environments at GVSETS In today’s increasingly complex battlespaces, giving warfighters an advantage means identifying critical datapoints for split-second decision-making. When equipped with the A230, ground vehicle operators can receive alerts within seconds if the GPGPU detects unusual objects or deviations in the surrounding environment, empowering the driver and crew with real-time intelligence to make faster, more informed decisions.
“As the need for smarter, faster and more adaptive technologies grows, ultimately to improve and accelerate the OODA loop, the focus is on AI solutions to help make critical decisions in real time; intelligent systems that can think and react quickly, no matter where they’re deployed or what conditions they face,” said Pratish Shah, U.S. general manager, Aitech. “The combination of Aitech’s AI supercomputer and partner Intuidex’s Watchman Analytics™ offers a breakthrough in delivering real-time insight for more accurate decisions within seconds and improved effectiveness of actions, making it a valuable asset for military ground vehicles and beyond.”
At GVSETS, Aitech live demonstrations will be powered by Aitech’s AI Supercomputer and Intuidex’s Higher-Order Low-Resource Learning™ (HO-LRL™) AI/ML technology in Watchman Analytics™. With this blend of technology, tactical units can detect and track the type and position of virtually any asset in real-time.
The new solution ensures that military operations are agile, precise and responsive, leading to better overall mission outcomes through new capabilities leveraging Watchman Analytics, including:
- Unmatched Situational Awareness: Provides data fusion, extraction, analysis, monitoring and search capabilities for advanced situational awareness leveraging multiple sources of intelligence data, correlation, prediction, forecasting and pattern of life and anomaly detection.
- Autonomous Warfighter Protection: Optimizes force readiness and safeguards warfighters with advanced target recognition and signal processing
- Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance: Uses real-time pattern of life analysis and actionable intelligence to deliver enhanced asset detection and classification to support smarter decision-making; accommodates multiple data sources, including imagery, while simultaneously running threat detection algorithms.
- Mission Agnostic: Dynamically updates incident, event, object or threat detection priorities to meet ever-changing mission needs; supports the rapid identification of anomalies, shields communication and control systems from breaches for rapid response
- Communications and Networking: Manages high-speed processing and learning algorithms directly on board, adapting to changing situations without relying on a constant connection to command centers to prioritize traffic, reduce delays and improve decision-making on the ground to connect and protect the warfighter
The A230 AI Supercomputer is now available in an active fan-cooled option specifically designed to support the environmental requirements of today’s military ground vehicle applications. Internal fans offer active cooling to help dissipate heat efficiently, ensuring the system can support prolonged operations with intense computational demands in environments with temperature extremes. Meanwhile, the fanless conduction-cooled A230 variant efficiently dissipates heat through heatsinks, fins and chassis-integrated cold plates, making it ideal for tightly sealed systems where active airflow isn’t an option.
For over four decades, Aitech has engineered solutions and systems that solve complex problems for military applications across sea, land, air, and space domains. Aitech will showcase its new AI-on-the-edge solution and convection-cooled supercomputer at the 17th Annual Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium (GVSETS) & Modernization Update from Aug. 12–15, in Novi, Michigan (booth 336). Live, hands-on demos will illustrate the impact of real-time insights and decision-making capabilities for military operations. (Source: PR Newswire)
13 Aug 25. New Chinese Stealth Tactical Jet Breaks Cover. Recently emerged imagery largely confirms that China is now test-flying another tailless stealthy combat jet, although it isn’t clear if this is a crewed design or one of its new advanced drones. A high-performance, highly autonomous uncrewed combat air vehicle (UCAV) with collaborative ‘loyal wingman’ capabilities is a major possibility. Still, based on the design, this could very well be yet another sixth-generation crewed jet — one that is similar to, or even would compete more directly with Shenyang’s J-XDS (also nicknamed the J-50 by some) fighter rather than Chengdu’s massive J-36 super-heavy tactical jet. The aircraft seen in the recently emerged images has a notably pointed forward fuselage and nose section that blends into the mid-set wing midway down the fuselage. The highly swept wing has cropped tips, and the trailing edge features a prominent triangular extension, with a ‘W’-like configuration. There are no vertical stabilizers or other separate tail surfaces. The broad fuselage would appear to offer a fairly significant capacity for internal fuel and stores, although details of a weapons bay are not apparent in the available views. Meanwhile, there is speculation among some long-term Chinese aerospace observers that the new aircraft is one of multiple Chinese counterparts to the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) ‘loyal wingman’ program. At the same time, it is TWZ’s opinion that a more substantial and advanced unmanned combat air vehicle is perhaps a strong possibility, one that could still incorporate CCA teaming capabilities, but would also be better suited for independent operations. Andreas Rupprecht, a Chinese aviation expert and contributor to this website, told TWZ that he thinks the new imagery shows one of the country’s CCA designs, although he notes that it’s significantly different from the tailless design that was spotted flying together with a pair of Y-9 turboprop transports, in imagery that emerged last month. This other design, seen in the tweets embedded below, features a modified diamond-like delta planform combined with a much simpler trailing edge. (Source: UAS VISION/The War Zone)
12 Aug 25. Concurrent launches Apollo: compact, rugged edge computing for modern defence missions.Concurrent, a leader in embedded computing solutions, has unveiled Apollo, a compact, rugged edge computing system engineered to meet the evolving needs of modern defence operations. Built to house a conduction-cooled SOSA®-aligned processor board with mission-centric I/O, Apollo delivers powerful processing in an ultra-compact, MIL-grade form factor, enabling deployment in constrained environments without sacrificing performance. Apollo is not just a smaller box – it’s a fully capable tactical computing node. Designed for use cases where size, weight, and power (SWaP) are critical, Apollo integrates seamlessly into UAV avionics bays, portable field kits, or dismounted soldier systems. Its compact footprint enables faster deployment, greater platform compatibility, and flexibility at the edge of operations, eliminating the need for bulky enclosures or power-hungry systems. Apollo’s integrated 1 and 10 gigabit Ethernet provides high-speed, low-latency communications across distributed systems. Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) can be enabled for applications that need precision timing, deterministic behaviour, and synchronised operations across tactical edge nodes. This makes Apollo ideal for use cases such as distributed sensors, control surfaces, or ISR systems that must remain tightly coordinated—even in complex environments. Engineered to meet MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810G, and MIL-STD-704 environmental standards, Apollo thrives when used in challenging shock, vibration, temperature, and electromagnetic-challenged environments. Its sealed, modular design ensures ease of integration, maintenance, and long-term reliability – wherever the mission takes it.
“Defence operations are increasingly defined by their ability to adapt and respond fast,” said Brent Salgat, Chief Revenue Officer at Concurrent “Apollo integrates quickly, operates reliably, and delivers the compute power needed to succeed at the edge.”
Key features of Apollo
- Ultra-compact tactical node: 1-slot conduction-cooled VPX system, approx. 3.6 kg, ideal for SWaP-constrained platforms.
- TSN enabled high-speed networking: 1/10G Ethernet for low-latency communication.
- Rugged design for harsh environments: Designed to meet MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-810G, and MIL-STD-704 standards, ensuring operational reliability in extreme conditions.
- Modular, easy integration: Supports Hermes processor PIC, with additional I/O flexibility via XMC and Mini PCIe.
Building the future of edge computing in defence
As defence architectures evolve toward distributed and modular networks, Apollo delivers the computing power required to enable C4ISR, sensor fusion, and electronic defence systems at the tactical edge. Its compact design and rapid deployability provide a clear advantage for missions requiring speed, flexibility, and resilience. Concurrent continues to advance embedded computing solutions with a focuson innovation, reliability, and exceptional service. With Apollo, the company further solidifies its position as a trusted provider of mission-critical technology for the most challenging environments. For more information about Apollo and Concurrent’s other solutions, visit https://concurrent.tech/products/apollo
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Oxley Group Ltd
Oxley offer a range of Military Marine NVG friendly LED lighting that includes navigation lights and controls, flight deck landing lights and interior compartment lighting. Our lighting products are used by Navies around the world including our own Royal Navy on UK Aircraft Carriers, Canadian Frigates, Swedish Submarines, Australian Surface vessels and Submarines, on board French Naval Carriers and in Naval Gun Turrets.
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The technology is extremely energy efficient and built robustly, with proven long life. The lighting is NVG friendly, dimmable and programmable to allow for operations with aircraft pilots using military night vision goggles. They offer superior design giving high reliability for the most demanding environments with high sealing and the ability to meet the most stringent EMC standards.
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Oxley are proud to say that we are working in partnership with SeaKing to enable a control panel to be offered with our LED Navigation Lighting. All of Oxley navigation lights have been specifically developed for vessels over 50 metres.
Contact Marcus Goad on 07850 917 263 for more information or to arrange samples.
Oxley specialises in the design and manufacture of advanced electronic and electro-optic components and systems for air, land and sea applications within the military sector. Established in 1942, Oxley has manufacturing facilities in the UK and USA and enjoys representation worldwide. The company’s products include night vision and LED lighting, data capture systems and electronic components. Oxley has pioneered the development of night vision compatible lighting. It offers a total package incorporating optical filters, equipment modification, cockpit and external lighting along with fleet wide upgrade services including engineering, installation, support, maintenance and training. The company’s long experience of manufacturing night vision lighting and LED indicators, coupled with advances in LED technology, has enabled it to develop LED solutions to replace incandescent and fluorescent lighting in existing applications as well as becoming the lighting option of choice in new applications such as portable military hospitals, UAV control stations and communication shelters.
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