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Bidirectional optical extender provides optical-electrical bridge by over a mile - Product
October 24, 2016
Avionics Interface Technologies? MIL-STD-1553 Fibre Optic Databus Extender is an optical-electrical bridge for extending a MIL-STD-1553 databus by over a mile in length. The optical extension offers a low-latency mechanism for sending 1553 data through noisy environments and across l...
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DAL-C certifiable XMC 2.0 SBC for aerospace and defense applications - Product
October 24, 2016
Creative Electronics Systems (CES) offers the MFCC-8557, a DAL-C-certifiable XMC 2.0 single-board computer (SBC) for aerospace and defense applications. It is designed to meet the DO-178C/DO-254 certification process and can be delivered with all documentation, certification evidences, and...
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GaN transistors for electronic warfare and communication systems - Product
October 24, 2016
NXP has expanded its family of gallium nitride (GaN) radio frequency (RF) power transistors to include six driver or final-stage amplifiers that have frequency coverage ranging between 1 to 3000 MHz. The additional line of transistors join NXP?s portfolio of RF power transistors aime...
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Rugged embedded computer designed to meet SWaP requirements for C4ISR - Product
October 24, 2016
The RE1218M rugged embedded computer from Crystal Group is designed for workstation and/or storage capability in extreme environments with reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements. It is targeted at command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and rec...
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Uninterruptible power supply for extreme environments - Product
October 24, 2016
IntelliPower?s bright uninterruptible power supply (UPS) can be manually selected to 120 or 240 volts AC output and functions as a power-conditioning/conversion system with power factor correction for military applications in a rack. IntelliPower systems are designed with circuit boa...
From The Editor
Remembering Joe Pavlat - Story
October 21, 2016
Summer ended with sad news for our OpenSystems Media family when we learned that our friend and coworker, Joe Pavlat, Editorial Director of PICMG Technologies magazine, passed away suddenly at his home in Grass Valley, California. He was only 63 years old.
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Leveraging FPGAs for military comms, webcast: Oct 12 @ 12 noon Est - News
October 07, 2016
FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona. Embedded computing experts are gathering next week on Wednesday, Oct 12, at 12 noon Est., for a webcast titled "FPGAs: A Game Changer for Military Communications." The speakers will cover how FPGAs enable software defined radio (SDR) and satellite communication system designers to develop open-architecture, configurable board-level FPGA solutions for use in current and new systems. The webcast is hosted by Military Embedded Systems online and OpenSystems Media.
Cyber
Avionics
Certifying COTS avionics hardware to DAL A is common sense - Story
September 29, 2016
Modern avionics systems continue to become more complex for not only military aircraft, but also commercial aircraft adapting the latest digital cockpits. This complexity and demand for increased performance has placed more pressure on industry and the civil safety certification authorities for aviation worldwide to develop processes for certifying commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware to highest safety certification level ? Design Assurance Level (DAL) A. In this Q&A with Paul Hart, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, he discusses the objections from the civil aviation authorities to this concept as well as the benefits that occur from certifying COTS hardware to DO-254 DAL A, its similarities to certifying software to DO-178C, and how it might apply to unmanned aircraft. Edited excerpts follow.
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SDR tech deployed throughout military, but design challenges remain - Story
September 29, 2016
Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with 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 month we cover software defined radio (SDR) technology and its current use in the military electronics market and its future outlook.
Unmanned
Interoperable tech opportunities growing in U.S. UAS market, analysts say - News
September 29, 2016
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. The U.S. military, looking to minimize training requirements, is channeling funding toward platform upgrades and autonomy especially in unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), say analysts at Frost & Sullivan. The U.S. Air Force wants to upgrade its UAS programs by deploying an open architecture, ensuring standards-based modularity to enable plug and play sensors and implementing quick hardware and software upgrades, according to Frost & Sullivan.
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Aitech rugged GPGPU system provides 1 teraflop to the sensor - News
September 28, 2016
CHATSWORTH, Calif. Officials at Aitech Defense Systems Inc., announced a new fanless, rugged GPGPU supercomputer that measures only 20 cubic inches, while providing 1 TeraFLOP of parallel processing. Dubbed the A176 Cyclone, it comes in a custom small form factor design and provides 60 GigaFLOPs/Watt in a low-power high performance embedded computer (HPEC).
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Shipboard embedded computing and COTS - Story
September 20, 2016
The U.S. military's funding for defense systems has been relatively flat in recent budgets, but Navy applications are seeing an uptick. The Navy is seeing a focus on modernization of shipboard systems - which require more rugged, embedded-computing systems processing - as well as rugged, state-of-the-art displays.
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Radar, electronic warfare, UAS payloads are steadiest part of military market - Story
September 09, 2016
"Uncertainty" best describes the current outlook for the U.S. military market, with the next presidential election still undecided, as is the nation's future defense outlook. Regardless of inertia or doubt in Washington, military program managers and industry engineers must continue to keep the current defense electronics systems in air, ground, and sea platforms running efficiently to ensure continuing military readiness. Moreover, key radar, unmanned, electronic warfare, and other systems must still be modernized. All of this means that opportunities still exist for embedded electronics suppliers. Radar, electronic warfare, UAS payloads are steadiest part of military market
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From The Editor
Remembering Joe Pavlat - Other
September 06, 2016
Summer ended with sad news for our OpenSystems Media family when we learned our friend and co-worker, Joe Pavlat, Editorial Director of PICMG Technologies magazine, passed away suddenly at his home in Grass Valley, California. He was only 63 years old.
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The Aegis Combat System's continuous modernization - Story
August 26, 2016
The Aegis Combat System has been around since 1969, but modernizations of the Aegis fleet happen regularly, enabling the system to have the latest signal-processing technology, radar systems, electronic warfare capability, and more. In this Q&A with Jim Sheridan, Vice President of the Naval Combat and Missile Defense Systems (NC&MDS) market segment within the Integrated Weapon Systems and Sensors (IWSS) line of business at Lockheed Martin, he details the latest Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 and the new capabilities it provides, the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) parts and products and open architectures in the program, reduced SWaP trends, and potential game changers to naval warfare such as kinetic weapons. Edited excerpts follow.
Avionics
All 147 Marine Corps CH-53E helicopters to get tech reset - News
August 26, 2016
PATUXENT RIVER, Maryland. U.S. Marine Corps officials announced that a a full reset of the Corps' CH-53E Super Stallion heavy lift helicopters has begun and is aiming to significantly increasing the number of operationally fit aircraft.
Cyber
Cybersecurity business of Sypris Electronics sold to Analog Devices - News
August 25, 2016
NORWOOD, Massachusetts. Officials at Analog Devices, Inc. announced that the company has acquired the Cyber Security Solutions (CSS) business of Sypris Electronics LLC., in Tampa, Florida, which is owned by Sypris Solutions in Louisville, Kentucky.
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