Military Embedded Systems

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona. Elements of the Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) technical standard are leveraging standards developed by the VITA Standards Organization, specifically VITA 65, also known as OpenVPX. VITA has also become a participating member of the SOSA Consortium along with the Air Force, Army, and Navy. This harmonization between the services, industry, and industry standardization bodies helps drive the SOSA initiative’s strong momentum within the defense community. This webcast titled, "SOSA and VITA: Enabling Open Standards for Improved Capability," to be held on Wednesday, June 24, at 2 pm Est., will cover how the SOSA Consortium is working with VITA to enable standardization of VITA-based standards within the SOSA Technical Standard.

SOLOMONS, Maryland. Officials at the Open Group and the consortia they manage - the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) and the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) - are organizing the The Open Group FACE and SOSA Consortia Expo & TIM, to be held September 22, 2020 at the Holiday Inn Solomons Conference Center & Marina in Solomons, Maryland. FACE and SOSA Consortia Meetings will be held September will follow the expo at the same location from Sept. 23-25, 2020.

IRVINE, California. Meggitt Defense Systems, Inc. (MDSI) won a contract to provide the Thermal Management System (TMS) to General Dynamics Land Systems in Sterling Heights, Michigan, for the Abrams program. The TMS delivers active cooling to the upgraded Abrams electronics and crew.

The COTS Confidential Roundtable gathers experts from the defense electronics industry – from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each Roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This issue, we discuss how embedded computing suppliers are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) for military applications, the impact of the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium and other open architecture initiatives, and the outlook for the future of embedded technologies in the defense and aerospace markets with sponsors of the Embedded Tech Trends (ETT) conference, held during late January in Atlanta, Georgia.

Looking back on our top 15 read stories since 2010, seeing what topics and authors have trended well through the past decade, was a fun little exercise. No surprise, our most-read guest blogger, Ray Alderman, Chairman of the Board at VITA, dominates the list with five entires of his Warfare Evolution Blog, while articles and news on FPGAs, GPS jamming, and EMP weapons flavored the top of the list. Another guest blogger, Ronen Isaac of Milsource, placed two entries in the top 15 with his Ethernet Everywhere Blog. Check them our below.

Our most popular blogs, and guest blogs on Mil-Embedded.com from 2019 covered artificial intelligence, hypersonic weapons, battlefield healthcare, the kill web, supply chain security, Ethernet, software integrity, and more. Our guest blogs were penned by authors from VITA, Apex Waves, Abaco Systems, Milsource, and Red Hat. Check them out below.

The top cybersecurity and encryption stories of 2019 covered COTS encryption, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, Lockheed Martin's Silent Crow, securing simulation and training systems, and more. Check them out below:

The top Avionics stories on Mil-embedded.com for 2019 covered F-35 avionics, multicore for safety-critical applications, conformance with the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standard, F-22 Raptor upgrades, and more. Check them out below.