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Radar/EW
Board-level Micro and ATX Sandy Bridge servers pack big performance - Product
May 24, 2011
When Intel's Sandy Bridge microarchitecture hit the Core processor family in January 2011, the personal computer market was rocked to its core.
Comms
Harsh-duty touch sensor conditioner for battery apps - Product
May 24, 2011
The human-machine interface in defense apps is critically important - especially when it comes to pushing buttons or scrolling pages.
Comms
RTI bonds DDS with government researchers, on the cheap - Product
May 24, 2011
The publish-subscribe Data Distribution Service (DDS) continues inroads into DoD distributed networks because of easy data and message passing between nodes.
Radar/EW
Among a chassis' biggest fans - Product
May 24, 2011
We've got high-performance CPUs mixed up with barn-burning GPUs next to screaming 1 GbE controllers.
Unmanned
Video surveillance chipset does reality TV in HD - Product
May 24, 2011
So your iPhone 4 records in HD at 720p. So does the Cisco Flip camera (which, by the way, just went obsolete as we went to press).
Avionics
Better bus licenses - Product
May 24, 2011
Even the newest, freshest military platform retains legacy interfaces such as MIL-STD-1553 or ARINC 429.
Comms
Navy's NMCI network speeds warfighter's chance to get inside the adversary's OODA loop: An exclusive interview with HP's Bill Toti, - Story
April 29, 2011
In this interview with Bill Toti, Strategic VP at HP and U.S. Navy Los Angeles class sub driver, he brings us up-to-speed on how NMCI is the world's second biggest network (behind the Internet), how it's secured and hardened from predators, and how it forms an integral backbone to help defeat America?s adversaries. (Edited excerpts follow.)
Radar/EW
Xilinx becomes master of their own domain; App Store to follow - Story
April 29, 2011
Throughout 2011 Xilinx has been furiously announcing new targeted design platforms, tools, and high-density stacked chips. They've also not squelched rumors that they'll get into the SoC/ASSP business if the volume is right. I pulled aside their chief marketing guru Brent Przybus at a Xilinx press event where he casually provided the following information. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
Big bucks for better batteries sure to power future mil systems - Story
April 25, 2011
There's a lot of energy being put into battery research, and the defense world is benefiting big-time from civilian research.
Comms
COTS means Competition, and that's good - Story
April 11, 2011
From MIL-SPEC ICs to future RECON Android apps, COTS competition is helping to ensure that the only constant is change ... for the better.
Comms
MC4 telemedicine brings e-Health to the battlefield:Interview with Army Lieutenant Colonel William Geesey, product manager, MC4 - Story
April 11, 2011
Editor's Note: Battlefield medicine has come a long, long way since the Civil War, and advanced many clicks beyond what was commonplace only 10 years ago in OIF. The U.S. Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care is integrating and deploying the best COTS technology available to further soldiers. I spoke with Lieutenant Colonel William Geesey, product manager and visionary?for MC4. Edited excerpts follow.?
Unmanned
Autonomous ISR software reduces operator workload - An interview with executives from Kitware - Story
April 11, 2011
European citizens are familiar with the ubiquity of cameras everywhere, monitoring high-traffic public places and roadways. In most cases, video feeds back to operations centers where operators look for specific events. On today's digital battlefield, ISR sensor data and video from UAS platforms, satellites, aircraft, and ground forces. I sat down with executives from Kitware to learn about leading-edge autonomous software aiding in these missions. Edited excerpts follow.?
Comms
Increasingly complex system designs need simulation, code generation tools - Interview with Dr. Jon Friedman, MathWorks - Story
April 11, 2011
I think automatic code generation, test vector generation, or property proving aren't about taking the human out of that process. They're about adding tools to the engineer's quiver.?So said our interviewee, Jon Friedman from MathWorks. In this exclusive interview, Friedman gives a?firsthand education in Model-Based Design and why it's becoming essential in air- and spacecraft systems. Edited excerpts follow.
Radar/EW
Increased performance without all that nasty power - Product
March 29, 2011
Remember when Motorola/Freescale rocked our military worlds with the PowerPC and AltiVec? Yeah, we kinda remember that, too.
Radar/EW
Double-wide AMC plus double cores completes MicroTCA equation - Product
March 29, 2011
Crunching math and computing algorithms forms the basis of many C4ISR applications. T
Comms
Rugged digital touch screens, from 10 to 19 inches - Product
March 29, 2011
We doubt that VIA, the number three x86 processor vendor, set out to supply rugged LCDs to the military.
Comms
COM Express SBC tucks neatly into rugged shoeboxes - Product
March 29, 2011
The trend in many military systems is a purpose-built box that fits the required space and I/O ports.
Comms
Companies show initiative when it comes to Android - Product
March 29, 2011
You can't go anywhere these days without seeing someone whip out their smartphone to look up a restaurant, or to Google the answer to some question that arose during dinner with friends. And the military might not be far behind in adopting smartphones or tablets featuring Android.
Comms
VPX router gets dolled up for FIPS crypto cert - Product
March 29, 2011
Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing's VPX3-685 secure router is undergoing FIPS 140-2 Level 2 cryptographic validation at NIST under the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP).
Comms
Android developers benefit from safe RTOS PikeOS - Product
March 29, 2011
SYSGO developers have decided to toss Android developers a lifeline by letting it run as a guest OS in version 3.2 of PikeOS.
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