AUGSBERG, Germany. Kontron has received an order believed to be worth approximately $173 million (165 million euros) from a major European company in the defense/security/aerospace technology sectors.

Kontron's Zack McGrath, product portfolio manager, talks with Tom Varcie of Military Embedded Systems and gives all the details.

Kontron, a leader in rugged embedded solutions, is proud to showcase our high-performance computing components and platforms for deployable defense applications at AUSA 2024 at booth #4032. For the first-time, we are featuring the Hartman Weiner chassis and power supply solutions under the Kontron name.

This week’s product, the Kontron VX370H 3U VPX plug-in-card, is aligned to the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard profile specifications. It is ideal for boosting the compute and data-transmission performance of mission systems used in defense and avionics applications as well as for high-density computing platforms required for modern applications such as C5ISR (command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance).

TOULON, France. Embedded-computing company Kontron released the XMC-ETH6, a high-performance Gigabit Ethernet XMC designed to enhance the networking capabilities of VPX or VME single-board computers (SBCs). 

This week’s product, the Kontron VX3060-S2 3U VPX Rugged Blade PC, leverages the 11th Gen Intel Core processor for artificial intelligence (AI), CVGIP, and digital signal processing (DSP) workloads. Developed in alignment with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard, the VX3060-S2 serves demanding military programs with intensive processing and extreme ruggedization requirements.