WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. As previously promised, we are fearlessly embarking upon a challenging project here, to integrate the demand-side and supply-side data about the world military markets. The best method to attack this problem is from the top-down. Going from the bottom-up would create debilitating confusion, misconceptions, and illusions.
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GIVING BACK: Dare To Dream Ranch - Blog
March 20, 2023Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different charitable organization that benefits the military, veterans, and their families. We are honored to cover the technology that protects those who protect us every day.
MOSA savings metrics needed - Blog
March 15, 2023While most leaders in the U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) understand the basic value of open architectures, they need to see metrics on already-realized cost and scheduled savings, said David Tremper, Director, Acquisition Integration and Interoperability, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense in his keynote address at the MOSA [Modular Open Systems Approach] Virtual Summit held February 22 and hosted by myself and Military Embedded Systems.
GUEST BLOG: Defense industry embraces the benefits of standardized power supplies - Blog
March 15, 2023As 2023 marches on, we are seeing a growing trend within the aerospace and defense electronics industry toward technology standardization, in particular regarding power-delivery networks. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and prime defense contractors are incentivized to push standardized, modular power systems thanks to their inherent reusability, ability to scale across multiple platforms, and the clear benefits of shorter development time and faster time to revenue.
Army Project Convergence 2023 exercises canceled, and UFOs take a high-speed turn - Blog
March 14, 2023WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. As I was putting together my notes about all the Army’s Project Convergence Exercises, I got a notice that the planned PC-23 exercises had been cancelled and rescheduled for 2024. That’s a great disappointment, so let's drown our sorrows in a vintage bottle of data from the three previous exercises: PC-20, PC-21, and PC-22.
GUEST BLOG: As wiper threats rise, governments need better coordination, planning, and data sharing - Blog
March 14, 2023While many other types of threats still exist in the wild, the rise of wiperware – a class of malware that maliciously erases data on the infected device – has sparked special concern among security teams in the public and private sectors.
GUEST BLOG: Why Ukraine needs battle tanks: The technologies behind the multinational pledges to bolster Ukraine’s front lines - Blog
March 13, 2023A year ago, sending NATO battle tanks to a non-NATO nation fighting a war against Russia would've been unthinkable. Kyiv’s long campaign for support from western nations seemed to fall on deaf ears, even though many experts agreed that the need was there. Now, however, Germany, Denmark, and other European nations are sending Leopard 1 A5 and Leopard 2 A6 tanks to Ukraine; Britain has sent a squadron of Challenger 2s; and the U.S. is sending a battalion of 31 M1A2 Abrams tanks.
GIVING BACK: Operation Hat Trick - Blog
February 16, 2023Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different charitable 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: How the military can speed data mobility for smart decisions on the move - Blog
February 03, 2023The military is producing ever-larger amounts of valuable data from embedded systems at the edge. Now it needs more effective ways to share, understand, and act on that data – at or near the user and as close as possible to real time. By leveraging available technologies like containerization and tools to manage them, warfighters have the opportunity to make faster, smarter decisions where and when they’re needed to help achieve battlespace dominance.
GUEST BLOG: Everything you wanted to know about DevSecOps (but were afraid to ask) - Blog
February 02, 2023DevSecOps – first defined more than 40 years ago – brings a lot of value to modern development of military embedded systems, as the world sees global instability, ransomware attacks, and shortened development cycle.
GIVING BACK: Rifles to Rods - Blog
December 01, 2022Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different charitable organization that benefits the military, veterans, and their families. We are honored to cover the technology that protects those who protect us every day.
Cryptanalysis, "Ulysses," dolphins, and talking to extraterrestrials - Blog
November 30, 2022WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG. Let’s take a break from studying the Kill Web and explore something else. Back in the late 1940s, Harvard linguist George Kingsley Zipf picked up a copy of James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” and read it. Although it was acclaimed by the pompous literary pundits in rumpled suits as a masterpiece, Zipf could not believe how incomprehensible and boring it was. In case you were not exposed to it in college, reading “Ulysses" is like being mercilessly waterboarded with the English language by shallow characters, in a dull story with no detectable plot, for an unbearable period of time.
GUEST BLOG: The Air Force’s interim IT strategy could be a modernization road map for other agencies - Blog
November 30, 2022It’s been said before that the best plans tend to be the simple ones. While it’s not clear whether that’s ever been said about digital transformation, the Air Force’s recently released interim Chief Information Officer (CIO) strategy could serve as an example of this truism, focusing on straightforward goals to modernize and secure the organization’s information technology environment.
GIVING BACK: Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals (VAREP) - Blog
October 17, 2022Each issue, the editorial staff of Military Embedded Systems will highlight a different charitable 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: What the CHIPS Act means for the defense and aerospace industry - Blog
October 17, 2022The newly enacted CHIPS Act (signed into law August 9, 2022) represents a potential boost in U.S. semiconductor fabrication by providing subsidies to U.S. chip manufacturers and funding for technology and research development. At a high level, the CHIPS Act is set to revitalize domestic manufacturing, lower sourcing costs, and increase job creation, all while strengthening the overall global supply chain.
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Rugged mission displays for surveillance applications
March 30, 2010
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Software warranties -- A new era?
September 23, 2009
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Solving the processor challenges for safety-critical software
October 12, 2011
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Remote test equipment solves problems in avionics bus systems
June 24, 2008
Unmanned
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COM Express enables application-specific data acquisition systems
October 12, 2011
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Enhanced Full-Motion Video advances military UAS surveillance - Multistream image processing and routing in real time
October 06, 2010
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COTS vendors, while concerned about extensive DoD budget cuts, see opportunities for retrofits, unmanned systems
October 12, 2011
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Deploying ruggedized platforms for unmanned vehicles
June 20, 2011
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JDL Level 2-4 information fusion engine released by Larus Technologies
May 23, 2013
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DARPA Adaptive Radar Countermeasure program contract awarded to Leidos and Exelis
June 01, 2015
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The Internet of Things for the intelligence community
July 23, 2015
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Predictive analytics and the industrial IoT: Thinking about military adoption
September 10, 2015
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Open standards ease Multi-Level Security (MLS) systems integration
July 27, 2011
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Domain-specific property checking with advanced static analysis
February 17, 2011
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Should we put up with software that doesn't work?
September 02, 2011
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Protecting integrated circuits from silicon Trojan horses
February 10, 2009