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VITA 48.8 air-flow through cooling standard working group formed - News
January 19, 2016
HOUSTON. At Embedded Tech Trends, VITA officials announced the formation of a working group that will develop new air-flow through (AFT) cooling standard, VITA 48.8, for use in size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) constrained 3U and 6U VPX module-based systems.
Comms
Cryptology, cryptography, and cryptanalysis - Blog
December 22, 2015
EVOLUTION OF WARFARE BLOG: Cryptography is a broad, sticky, and mathematically complex, but interesting subject and an integral part of the evolution of warfare. So let’s get some definitions out of the way first. Cryptology is the study of codes, both creating and solving them. Cryptography is the art of creating codes. Cryptanalysis is the art of surreptitiously revealing the contents of coded messages, breaking codes, that were not intended for you as a recipient.
Unmanned
Airborne and satellite sensor systems - Blog
October 22, 2015
EVOLUTION OF WARFARE Blog: Those nations that are best prepared often succeed the most at winning conflicts or avoiding them in the first place. This thought is expressed even better in Latin: "Si vis pacem, para bellum." Translated as "you want peace, prepare for war," and originally stated by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus in De Re Militari around the 4th or 5th century BC.
Radar/EW
CERDEC becomes VITA's sponsor member followed by Curtiss-Wright initiative to support the U.S. Army's MORA - News
October 16, 2015
WASHINGTON. At the AUSA 2015 show, VITA announced their newest sponsor member, the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), who is developing the U.S. Army’s Modular Open RF Architecture (MORA) that enables open standards-based RF and microwave modules and small-form factor subsystem designs that address the size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints of ground vehicles. Also announced at the show was Curtiss-Wright's support of the U.S. Army's MORA with compliant RF capabilities using embedded commericial-off-the-shelfs (COTS) systems.
Radar/EW
Sensor networks and warfare - Blog
September 25, 2015
EVOLUTION OF WARFARE BLOG. In this segment, we will take a look at the sensor networks used by our intelligence community and military and their importance to maintaining secrecy in warfare. As Sun Tzu stated in "The Art of War," "secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."
Radar/EW
Next generation warfare: unexpected happenings - Blog
August 20, 2015
EVOLUTION OF WARFARE BLOG: Now that we have looked at the evolution of warfare through the ages in the previous seven articles, and speculated on what the future may hold, there are several significant incidents that beg examination and explanation. While the U.S. unquestionably has the most sophisticated weapons and intelligence systems on the planet, are our enemies catching up or even getting ahead of us? And do we already have next-generation intelligence systems operating secretly?
Radar/EW
ANSI/VITA 46.11 enables interoperability within the VPX ecosystem - News
July 16, 2015
SAN PEDRO, Calif. Officials at VITA Standards Organization (VSO) announce that VITA 46.11 System Management on VPX has reached American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recognition as ANSI/VITA 46.11-2015 enables interoperability within a VPX ecosystem at Field Replaceable Unit (FRU), chassis, and system levels.
