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Avionics

Vendor backing grows for the emerging FACE standard - Blog

April 30, 2019

Ricardo Camacho - director of Safety & Security Compliance, Parasoft LDRA Technology

Avionics vendors ? hardware and software ? share an enthusiasm for the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard, which promotes a common operating environment with reuse of software capabilities across multiple Department of Defense (DoD) avionics systems. This enthusiasm continues to grow as does participation within the FACE consortium ? run by the Open Group ? as the version 3.0 of the standard is soon to be released. The long -term life-cycle cost savings enabled by reuse standards such as FACE are changing the face of the DoD the procurement process for embedded computing solutions.

Unmanned

Unmanned systems trends - Story

April 16, 2019

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems

Radar/EW

Development of the next-generation OpenVPX-based embedded system standard: A tri-service convergence of approaches: Part 2 of 3 - Story

April 11, 2019

Mike Hackert Ben Peddicord Dr. Ilya Lipkin Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (ALCMC) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) C5ISR Center

Radar/EW

Problems with the kill web: Moving from C4ISR to SNAI - Blog

March 27, 2019

Ray Alderman VITA Standards Organization

WARFARE EVOLUTION BLOG: By now, you know the kill web is a dynamic networked "system of systems," that can act (offensively or defensively) at the speed of computers against our enemy's tactics and strategies on the battlefield. There are a number of technical problems to be solved in communications, computer architectures, sensors, and software, but the engineering brainiacs are working on those. The bigger issues are actually on the operational side of the kill web. Decisions involving many variables must be made in milliseconds or microseconds. The human mind cannot possibly handle all the data from the intelligence sources and sensors, assimilate that data, and make critical decisions in those timeframes. So let?s consider some examples, to expose the complications and contradictions in the kill web.

Radar/EW

Development of the next-generation OpenVPX-based embedded system standard: A tri-service convergence of approaches: Part 1 of 3 - Story

March 08, 2019

Mike Hackert Ben Peddicord Dr. Ilya Lipkin Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (ALCMC) Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC) C5ISR Center

Avionics

Military aircraft avionics face new data-processing and security demands - Story

March 07, 2019

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems Sally Cole - Senior Editor, Military Embedded Systems

Avionics

Avionics and standards - Story

March 06, 2019

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems

Radar/EW

Designing multifunction radar and EW systems means staying ahead of the tech curve - Story

February 18, 2019

Mariana Iriarte - Technology Editor, Military Embedded Systems

Huge data demands - including those from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications - are pushing radar and electronic warfare (EW) developers to seek new ways to deliver multifunction systems that also meet strict size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements.

Radar/EW

Implementing a common architecture for military systems - Story

February 08, 2019

John M. McHale III - Editorial Director, Military Embedded Systems

They're playing together nicely - the Army, Navy, and Air Force, that is - in their efforts to bring a common architecture to electronic systems across all three services. These efforts are resulting in three main initiatives: the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA); Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)/Electronic Warfare (EW) Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS); and the Hardware Open Systems Technology (HOST).