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GUEST BLOG: Deploying AI at the edge: Enhancing military readiness and response - Blog
October 10, 2024There is a lot of talk about terms like the military edge and artificial intelligence (AI) and their impact on military capability. Many of these conversations start with questions like “What is the edge?” “What is artificial intelligence?” and “What do edge computing and AI imply for embedded systems in the defense market?” Edge computing and AI are two powerful technologies that, when combined, significantly enhance operational capabilities.
GUEST BLOG: Addressing supply-chain risk and obsolescence in defense - Blog
October 10, 2024The defense industry stands at a critical juncture, tasked with confronting increased challenges in terms of sustaining operational efficiency and national security amid evolving threats and technological advancements. Central to these situations are supply-chain vulnerabilities and component obsolescence, both of which can undermine mission readiness. To counter these risks, advanced defense software solutions can offer innovative approaches to manage and mitigate supply-chain disruptions and ensure the longevity and effectiveness of defense systems.
The worldwide market for military satellites and helicopters - Blog
September 26, 2024WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. In my previous seven articles, we explored the worldwide markets for most military platforms. However, there are two platforms left to complete our study – satellites and helicopters. I saved these two segments for last since they share some common characteristics. Satellites expend their limited fuel struggling to stay in orbit (station keeping) while helicopters use their fuel thrashing the air furiously with rotor blades to stay aloft. Both fight a constant battle against gravity so that’s why I put them together for this essay. As they say in the aviation community: airplanes want to fly, but satellites and helicopters don’t.
Fathers and sons - Blog
September 19, 2024When I said I wanted to be a journalist and a writer, my dad, John McHale, Jr., told my mother, “Oh no, he’ll never make any money and we’ll have to support him forever.” That was more than 30 years ago, and I ended up doing OK. The best accolade I ever got wasn’t an award or a grade – it was my father asking me for my skills, requesting that I write family obituaries and eulogies. Last month I wrote his. He passed away on August 11, aged 81, surrounded by me, Mom, my brother, and our wives.
GIVING BACK: Feed Our Vets - Blog
September 09, 2024Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different organization that benefits the military, veterans, and their families. We are honored to cover the technology that protects those who protect us every day.
GUEST BLOG: Enabling rapid deployment through modular software architectures and third-party ecosystems - Blog
September 09, 2024At a time when digital superiority defines global security, the defense sector faces a critical challenge: that of deploying software updates swiftly without compromising safety or certification standards. There is a solution – modular, certifiable software architectures built on open standards. By fostering a collaborative ecosystem of innovation, this approach enables rapid deployment, seamless integration of third-party capabilities and streamlined certification processes.
GUEST BLOG: Harnessing AI for the next-generation tactical edge - Blog
September 09, 2024In the ever-evolving landscape of modern warfare, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping the future of military operations cannot be underestimated. With the battlespace’s complexity escalating, the AI-accelerated battlespace’s emergence, enabled by advanced data-processing capabilities at the tactical edge, has become pivotal in assuring mission success. As the speed of warfare increases, we must recognize how edge-based compute technologies are crucial to increase the speed of decision-making.
GIVING BACK: Merging Vets & Players - Blog
August 05, 2024Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different organization that benefits the military, veterans, and their families. We are honored to cover the technology that protects those who protect us every day.
GUEST BLOG: The worldwide markets for military radar, sonar, electronic warfare, and communications - Blog
July 30, 2024WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG: So far in this series, we have explored the worldwide markets for military platforms (tanks, ships, submarines, airplanes, and drones). These segments are interesting to the companies that bend metal, but for us, we want to know about the electronic systems inside those platforms. That insatiable yearning is the inspiration for this article. There’s a plethora of these systems, scattered around the services, so we can’t identify all of them here. I'll just mention the major programs and let you discover the rest on your own.
GUEST BLOG: The promises and pitfalls of an AI-enhanced battlefield - Blog
June 20, 2024In October 2023, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order focused on ensuring that artificial intelligence (AI) – which has captured headlines of late largely due to the rise of ChatGPT – is developed safely and securely. In a military context, this move will include the drafting of a memorandum, produced by the National Security Council and the White House Chief of Staff, that details how the U.S. military can ethically and effectively use AI to carry out its missions while also countering its use by adversaries.
GUEST BLOG: Beware the buzzword - Blog
June 20, 2024Artificial intelligence (AI) is a real buzzword across all industries right now, but coverage across the media spectrum is not always helpful. We’re seeing mind-boggling new technical capabilities being demonstrated each week, but it’s often hard to tie these to real-world use-cases; this, coupled with hype-to-bust predictions and discussions about “artificial general intelligence” serve to further distort the narrative.
MOSA – Friend or foe? - Blog
June 12, 2024As I travel to various places around the world, I am surprised by the perception that different government and supplier organizations have of the modular open systems approach (MOSA). MOSA is designed to lower costs for global coalition forces while accelerating new, highly competitive capabilities for the Warfighter, but folks still do not understand these benefits and sometimes turn MOSA into something that should be feared.
GUEST BLOG: Consolidated avionics improves helicopter capability - Blog
May 16, 2024The consolidation of federated systems into a modular open system approach (MOSA) changes the way helicopter avionics systems operate, interface, and communicate with one another. New capabilities can be quickly inserted, resilient technologies can be emphasized, and digital beamforming antennas expand applications.
GUEST BLOG: The worldwide market for unmanned aerial vehicles - Blog
April 30, 2024WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. Previously, we studied the markets for fighter planes and bombers, ground combat vehicles and tanks, warships and submarines, and unmanned naval vessels (surface and underwater). Now, it’s time to explore the market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which is rapidly becoming the largest volume segment of the military platforms. First, the UAV designation is actually a misnomer.
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Modular open systems critical to Army's future technological development: Army Secretary
October 14, 2024
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U.S. Army force protection enhancements to be provided by Leidos
October 10, 2024
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Handheld thermal imagers to be supplied to Canadian Army by Thales
October 10, 2024
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Thailand’s first AH-6 Little Bird helicopter completes inaugural flight
October 04, 2024
Unmanned
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U.S. Navy autonomous system support to be provided by Leidos
October 18, 2024
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Automation system for military aircraft to be developed by Honeywell, Merlin
October 18, 2024
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Gray Eagle Extended Range drone supports Army Vanguard demonstrations
October 17, 2024
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Directed energy C-UAS system has upcoming testing with U.S. Army, Navy
October 16, 2024
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PRODUCT OF THE WEEK: X-ES Xpedite8270 3U VPX-REDI, SOSA Aligned Module
October 21, 2024
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Advanced missile-warning systems delivered to U.S. Army by BAE Systems
October 16, 2024
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SOSA Consortium calls to program managers, says conformant suite coming soon
October 15, 2024
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Ruggedization, compact tech lead embedded system innovations at AUSA 2024
October 15, 2024
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Pentagon's network infrastructure to be supported by GDIT
September 20, 2024
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7 Tenets of Layered Security in Embedded Design
September 17, 2024
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Military cybersecurity market to grow by $17.9 billion through 2028: report
September 16, 2024
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U.S. DoD announces Intel to receive up to $3 billion in CHIPS Act funding
September 16, 2024