Tyndall Air Force Base has hosted a demonstration of a Cubic-made software suite designed to analyze kinetic and non-kinetic effects during training exercises. Cubic said Wednesday its Simplified, Planning, Execution, Analysis, Reconstruction or SPEAR suite facilitated user experience across more than 75 aircraft at the Checkered Flag 21-1 exercise.

Cubic's Nuvotronics subsidiary plans to add a 14-inch substrate carrier line within its manufacturing facility in Durham, North Carolina, in anticipation of increased demand for millimeter-wave technology across the defense, space and commercial sectors.

Cubic's mission and performance solutions business has received an $8.5M task order to mature core architectures of a training system designed for the U.S. Navy's F/A-18 and EA-18G aircraft programs.

Cubic has received a $7.5M contract to build and demonstrate a prototype software-defined radio intended to support coordination of unmanned aircraft systems in flight.

Cubic's PIXIA subsidiary will continue to provide its software platforms for data management and dissemination to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency after NGA exercised the second option year under a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.

The Defense Microelectronics Activity has certified Cubic's Nuvotronics subsidiary as a supplier of integrated circuits to the Department of Defense for military application through the agency's Trusted Access Program Office.

Cubic combined into a single business structure its mission solutions and global defense segments in August and Mike Knowles, president of the newly formed Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions segment, said he expects the consolidated defense business to improve operational efficiency and offer more integrated platforms to customers, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

Cubic has demonstrated its application server offering could work with a VMware-built virtual machine monitoring platform through a compatibility test. "Our dense compute in a small form factor coupled with VMware's ESXi platform, allows our customers to leverage their investments in virtualization at the edge of the battlefield," said Mike Barthlow, senior vice president and general manager of rugged IoT solutions at Cubic's mission and performance solutions segment.

Cubic Corp. will consolidate its defense business segments, effective immediately, to advance the company“™s strategic priorities, drive customer value and enhance operational effectiveness, Cubic reported on Friday. The new segment will be led by Michael Knowles, senior vice president of Cubic Corporation and president of Cubic Global Defense (CGD) since 2018. 

Cubic's mission solutions unit will continue to supply inflatable terminals to support U.S. Special Operations Command satellite and baseband communications under a potential five-year, $172M contract.

Cubic's mission solutions unit has been awarded a $38 million contract to provide a high-capacity backbone prototype for the U.S. Air Force's Joint Aerial Layer Network, the company announced Monday.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Cubic a potential five-year, $9M contract to build a surface data terminal for integration onto two Nimitz-class supercarriers. Cubic said Wednesday it will provide the Sharklink SDT as part of the military service's Communication Data Link System““Technical Refresh program.