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From The Editor
Show me the weapon system, no more PowerPoints please - Story
December 16, 2011
In tough economic times, the DoD expects cost and risk sharing from suppliers in the development of new products and technologies.
Comms
JTRS update: Radio systems move closer to deployment, while GMR gets cut - Story
December 16, 2011
Variants of the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program are on the verge of full deployment in 2012, yet the budget woes of 2011 have knocked out the JTRS Ground Mobile Radio system. Meanwhile, government and industry are evolving the technology behind JTRS - Software-Defined Radio (SDR) - with commercial smartphone technology to improve situational awareness for the warfighter.
Unmanned
Server helps apps travel through the rough spots - Product
October 17, 2011
The fact is that military airborne, land-based, and shipboard applications are housed in systems traversing harsh environments that are just not for the faint of heart. And Crystal Group Inc.'s SS16 Sealed Server can surely withstand the heat (and other extremes) of such environments...
Unmanned
Cisco's industrial Ethernet switch goes mil rugged - Product
October 17, 2011
Cisco Systems routers and switches certainly provide value in many industrial or benign computing scenarios.
Unmanned
Simultaneous UAV video streaming maximized - Product
October 17, 2011
As UAVs rapidly gain traction as a viable means of intelligence gathering and transmission, being able to capture and process multiple video sources simultaneously is imperative.
Avionics
ARM inside SWaP-C savvy flight control computer - Product
October 17, 2011
Well known for sitting inside smartphones, GPS, and many other mobile devices, the ARM processor has found a home inside Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems' Versatile Flight Control Computer (VFCC).
Radar/EW
Chassis Monitoring Board keeps an eye on the system - Product
October 17, 2011
What good is it to be on a ship if the entire ship is sinking, figuratively speaking?
Radar/EW
35 W DC/DC converters bring on the rugged - Product
October 17, 2011
Power is an uber-popular watercooler topic at any company engineering military electronic applications or systems, being a critical consideration in defense designs. Accordingly, XP Power has incarnated its MTC35 COTS DC/DC converters, specially designed to ease the power and rugged woes.
Unmanned
COTS vendors, while concerned about extensive DoD budget cuts, see opportunities for retrofits, unmanned systems - Story
October 12, 2011
Congress may make sweeping cuts in the next DoD budget, affecting every level of supplier. However, COTS vendors see a silver lining as DoD officials will need to upgrade existing naval, air, and ground platforms if no replacements are funded.
From The Editor
Creating common standards for satellite payload designs - Story
October 12, 2011
The NGSIS, an optical interconnect standard for spacecraft applications, looks to leverage common protocols for the reduction of design costs, development time, and SWaP for satellite payloads.
Unmanned
Unmanned applications are still a hot market - even amidst pressure of looming defense cuts - Story
September 02, 2011
An introduction to new Editorial Director John McHale and his take on the longevity of Unmanned Systems.
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