VITA Standards Organization

Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 67.1-2019 - Coaxial Interconnect on VPX, 4 Position SMPM Configuration - Press Release
January 28, 2025VITA is accepting registrations to be a member of a public review VITA Consensus Body for voting to reaffirm this standard. You do not have to be a VITA member to participate in this Consensus Body. VITA members with active Workspace profiles should sign up in Workspace. VITA Members can sign up for free (while logged into their account) while non-members must pay a nominal fee to participate. The response deadline to register for this consensus body is: February 19, 2025.
GUEST BLOG: Questions about: SR-72 aircraft, 6G NGAD fighter plane, and B-21 Stealth Bomber - Blog
November 26, 2024WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG: Let’s take a break from exploring the worldwide markets for military platforms in these essays, and connect some dots between the SR-72, the (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter plane, and the B-21 Bomber. From the latest news reports, they all seem to be related. Dissecting each of these platforms should give us a better understanding of what’s going on inside the U.S. Air Force.
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.
VITA standards activity updates - Story
September 10, 2024Note: This update is based on the results of the May 2024 VITA Standards Organization (VSO) meeting, held in Frederick, Maryland, and hosted by DRS Technologies. Contact VITA if you are interested in participating in any of these working groups. The full reports can be accessed at www.vita.com/StandardsUpdates. Visit the VITA website (http://www.vita.com) for details on upcoming VITA meetings.
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 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.
Call for Consensus Body Members to Reaffirm ANSI/VITA 17.3-2018 as a reaffirmed standard - Press Release
April 22, 2024VITA Members can sign up for free (while logged into their account) while non-members must pay a nominal fee to participate. The response deadline to register for this consensus body is:May 3, 2024 Reaffirmation of Approved Standard.