Military Embedded Systems

This week’s product, Vicor’s SOSA Power Supply, is aligned with the Open Group’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard and designed for 3U OpenVPX systems that are aligned to the SOSA approach. The commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) device is targeted at avionics, shipboard applications, and other defense applications.

ORLANDO, Florida. EIZO Rugged Solutions unveiled the Condor GR5SL 3U VPX Series, a new line of video graphics cards powered by NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture and aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard, the company announced in a statement. 

The Aerospace and defense landscape requires innovation, agility and cost-efficiency. The SOSA™️ (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) standard is transforming the industry by standardizing modular solutions for enhanced interoperability, reduced costs, and faster deployment.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is investing heavily in airborne attritable systems as a cost-effective approach to project force and influence. The DoD’s directive to use modular open systems approach (MOSA)-based solutions positions commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) component vendors to meet the form factor, weight, and cost limit requirements of airborne drones uncrewed aerial systems (UASs). This move toward lower-cost and more easily replaced uncrewed systems opens up new opportunities for suppliers of COTS components.

The prospect facing defense contractors is considerable: Pack more computing power, more sensors, and more capabilities into smaller spaces while extending mission endurance. As uncrewed platforms evolve from simple remote-controlled vehicles into autonomous systems with sophisticated sensor arrays, every milliwatt of power must be carefully managed.

Fans of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) modular open systems approach (MOSA) mandate got a nice surprise before the December holiday season: a new Tri-Service memo emphasizing continued support for MOSA, well-timed with new DoD leadership coming in focused on reforming acquisition.

ONTARIO, Canada. Pixus Technologies introduced a new C5ISR Modular Suite of Standards, or CMOSS, and Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard aligned development backplane designed to support a range of I/O intensive and compute-intensive applications, the company announced in a statement.

Every second, military radar systems collect terabytes of data about potential threats in the skies above. But having data isn’t the same as having intelligence. In an age of information overflow, the U.S. Department of Defense faces a new kind of challenge: turning this tsunami of radar data into actionable battlefield insights.

The three traditional compute architectures used for high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) and radar processing are CPUs [central processing units], GPUs [graphics processing units], and FPGAs [field-programmable gate arrays]. In many cases, a combination of these technologies is employed within a single subsystem, with software applications and workload optimizations influencing hardware selection. 

Rapid Response, SV Microwave's single port cable assembly builder, now has NanoRF Cable Connectors available, allowing better support for embedded system designs that comply with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture, or SOSA, Technical Standard as well as VITA standards.