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Designing for forward and backward compatibility is key to managing obsolescence - Story
October 14, 2014
The military and defense community struggles with the issue of obsolescence as it works to accept new designs for COTS products. This environment requires suppliers, especially smaller ones, to innovate or die. But the outlook is not bleak for companies that are able to produce products with high value to the defense market. In an era of declining budgets, service-life extension of systems is critical to maintaining the operational availability of every ship and aircraft.
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NTDS technology still widely used across Navy platforms worldwide - Story
October 09, 2013
The Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS), first developed in the 1960s, is still widely used in naval platforms worldwide and has a large installed base, but is in decline as new systems are not using the technology. In this Q&A with Michael Carter, CEO and President of Sabtech, a leading designer of NTDS products, he tells Military Embedded Systems about where NTDS technology is today, managing its obsolescence issues, and how reduced Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) requirements are affecting system designs. Edited excerpts follow.
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