CHATSWORTH, California. Aitech introduced a new space-rated 3U OpenVPX single-board computer (SBC) designed to support high-performance processing in missions ranging from low Earth orbit (LEO) to deep space, the company announced in a statement.

Unmanned systems are now cheaper, more capable, and more accessible to state and non-state actors, which creates an asymmetric threat that traditional defense systems struggle to counter. Understanding the vehicle dynamics in these applications means evaluating the complex behaviors exhibited by autonomous or semi-autonomous entities, which require significant coordination alongside other equipment and infrastructure, moving everything toward a common objective.

New technologies, tactics, techniques, and procedures are becoming increasingly vital on the battlefield. The U.S. military is acutely aware of this and is integrating lessons learned from recent military operations in the Ukraine, as well as other conflicts, into the Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2), a warfighting concept that has the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) seeking to achieve decision superiority.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland. Aitech is showcasing its latest advancements in military embedded systems at the MOSA Industry & Government Summit, emphasizing technologies built around the SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) open standards infrastructure, including its U-C8501 cybersecurity-enabled board, the company announced in a statement.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. Aitech Systems announced the M622, a fully managed 10 GbE/40 GbE Ethernet switch/router on an XMC that is designed for use in embedded and harsh-environment applications with SWaP-C (size, weight, power, and cost) constraints.

It’s been nearly three years since ratification of the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard 1.0 and its impact is being felt across the services as requests for SOSA aligned products are finding their way into program requirements. SOSA, an example of the modular open systems approach (MOSA) mandated by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is also changing the way government leverages commercial technology and existing open standards like VPX. To learn more, I gathered a roundtable of SOSA Consortium members to discuss SOSA’s impact on the community, business practices, common misconceptions, and the future of what SOSA may look like five or 10 years down the road.

Open architecture approaches like the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard are changing the way defense electronics designers build tomorrow’s military platforms. SOSA’s impact is felt within the electronic warfare (EW) community as requirements for the products based on the standard become more prevalent riding the modular open systems approach (MOSA) wave within the DoD.