Ken Owens - Military Embedded Systems

Conduant Corporation

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Comms

Project "Total Recall" case study: Designing a large rugged/redundant storage server - Story

September 23, 2009

Ken Owens Conduant Corporation

The task: to design and build a massively redundant, ruggedized storage and computing subsystem, without the end application being disclosed. Meanwhile, challenges of backplane design, thermal dissipation, and ruggedization arose.

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Unmanned

The U.S. Army's ability to "see first, shoot second" rolls on with UGVs

October 12, 2011

COM Express enables application-specific data acquisition systems
October 12, 2011
Enhanced Full-Motion Video advances military UAS surveillance - Multistream image processing and routing in real time
October 06, 2010
COTS vendors, while concerned about extensive DoD budget cuts, see opportunities for retrofits, unmanned systems
October 12, 2011
Deploying ruggedized platforms for unmanned vehicles
June 20, 2011

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Radar/EW

Streaming real-time video with CPUs/GPUs

October 12, 2011

VPX standards keep pace with faster fabrics
October 12, 2011
Expanding options in VPX connectivity
October 12, 2011
Designing rugged, multifunctional HPA controllers to prevent system damage
September 02, 2011
''I'm excited about the processor road maps.'' - Q&A with Matt Tracewell, Executive Vice President of Tracewell Systems
April 11, 2011

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A.I.

Photo credit: Advanced Brain Monitoring

DARPA surveillance system uses EEG for image filtering

September 20, 2012

JDL Level 2-4 information fusion engine released by Larus Technologies
May 23, 2013
DARPA Adaptive Radar Countermeasure program contract awarded to Leidos and Exelis
June 01, 2015
The Internet of Things for the intelligence community
July 23, 2015
Predictive analytics and the industrial IoT: Thinking about military adoption
September 10, 2015

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Cyber

Secure virtualization combines traditional desktop OSs and embedded RTOSs in military embedded systems

May 31, 2010

Open standards ease Multi-Level Security (MLS) systems integration
July 27, 2011
Domain-specific property checking with advanced static analysis
February 17, 2011
Should we put up with software that doesn't work?
September 02, 2011
Protecting integrated circuits from silicon Trojan horses
February 10, 2009

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