JOHN MCHALE, GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

This spring Mercury Systems acquired Pentek, a designer of FPGA single-board computers, data-acquisition boards, recording systems, and other products for radar, signals intelligence (SIGINT), and electronic warfare (EW) applications. In this podcast, Neal Austin, Vice President and General Manager of the Mixed Signal Business Unit within Mercury Systems and Rodger Hosking, co-founder and VP of Pentek Systems deep dive into the acquisition, where Pentek will fit within Mercury, and how the acquisition impacts the Mercury efforts within the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium.

JOHN MCHALE, GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) expertise is a key characteristic of the team Raytheon Technologies is putting together to support development of the U.S. Army’s Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program. TITAN is a tactical ground station that finds and tracks threats to support long-range precision targeting.

JOHN MCHALE, GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

The U.S. Army - FACE and SOSA Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) is still on for September 14, 2021 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This year's event will feature a Keynote Speaker and expert presentations on Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) and Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) related topics by a cross-section of the defense community, industry, and academia.

LISA DAIGLE, ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

Collins Aerospace reports that it has successfully demonstrated advanced communication, mission computing, and sensor technologies to support CJADC2 [Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control] and ABMS [Advanced Battle Management] technologies for the Utah Air National Guard at the Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base in Salt Lake City.

JOHN MCHALE, GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

The VMEbus technical standard has enjoyed a very long life supporting military systems. At almost 40 years old, it’s probably the longest lasting single standard in the history of computing. This webcast of industry experts will provide a brief history of VMEbus as well as why and how it remains the reliable stalwart of critical systems used across multiple defense platforms. Use cases will also be presented along with a sneak peek at how some platforms are examining next-gen platform migration from VME to OpenVPX and SOSA.

CHARLIE KAWASAKI, PACSTAR, A CURTISS-WRIGHT COMPANY

In order to achieve and maintain warfighting overmatch, coordinate deployed forces, and enable new warfighting capabilities, the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and Space Force are actively looking to new programs such as Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) to ensure warfighters have maximum situational awareness. This push to upgrade is driving the development of end-to-end networks linking the cloud, command posts, combat platforms, and dismounted warfighters. It also anticipates the addition of vast numbers of sensors and video feeds – backed by big data processing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning – to speed decision-making across all warfighting domains.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Spectranetix, Inc., a Pacific Defense company, announced deliveries of their 3U OpenVPX ruggedized chassis to the U.S. Army, Canadian Ministry of Defense, and U.S. prime contractors.

EMMA HELFRICH, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR

Concurrent Technologies announced a new 3U VPX conduction-cooled plug in card based on the Intel Xeon W-11000E Series processor (formerly known as Tiger Lake-H) for use as the system controller in high performance sensor based solutions in the defense space.

PENTEK, NOW PART OF MERCURY

To get better appreciation of the capabilities of RFSoC and understand how to best use the advantages of this technology, it’s worth taking a quick look at current trends in data converters and signal processing.

ABACO SYSTEMS

Whether it is something as trivial as a business traveler trying to find Wi-Fi at an airport without falling victim to a spoof network, or something as important as a warfighter trying to send positional data in a jammed environment, taking or retaining control of the electromagnetic spectrum in hostile terrain is becoming increasingly important.