Topic: COTS

A new model for COTS collaboration

October 10, 2024

Here’s how it usually goes: Faced with the need to upgrade an older platform or design a new one, a prime contractor will select – where it makes most sense in terms of risk, cost, and time – a mix of COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] suppliers and system integrators to function as subcontractors that will develop and build the various subsystems their program demands, for example, the mission computers, displays, and data concentrators. The prime contractor, making strategic build-versus-buy decisions about what tasks to keep in-house, will focus on those that have the most value, for example the platform itself or the application layer software.

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Testing FPAs with protoboards versus COTS-based instrumentation

September 10, 2024

Story

Design challenges for naval equipment enclosures

September 08, 2023

Radar/EW

Blog

GUEST BLOG: From Evangelism to Mandate: The Rise of MOSA

July 26, 2023

Comms

Story

Scalable assurance: A new approach to sourcing rad-hard electronics for space

June 09, 2023

Topic: COTS

A new model for COTS collaboration

Testing FPAs with protoboards versus COTS-based instrumentation

Design challenges for naval equipment enclosures

Radar/EW

GUEST BLOG: From Evangelism to Mandate: The Rise of MOSA

Comms

Scalable assurance: A new approach to sourcing rad-hard electronics for space

Comms

PCI mezzanine card module aimed at COTS, simulation applications

Radar/EW

MOSA modules to support U.S. Navy IFF radar

Cyber

Controls system from Moog chosen by L3Harris to equip Special Ops aircraft

Comms

VPT Introduces VSC Series of Space COTS Converters

Radar/EW

Bringing security to legacy systems for modern missions

Comms

Space onboard computing platform market to reach $2.3 billion by 2027, study finds

Radar/EW

COTS hardware-in-the-loop testing center opens for defense, aerospace customers

Comms

COTS use, cooperation between industry and government key to growth of launch-vehicle market, study says

Avionics

Busting the myths of COTS devices in military applications

Radar/EW

Meeting program schedules in a time of supply-chain uncertainty

Radar/EW

Electronic warfare systems demand multifunctionality and integration in RF and microwave designs

Radar/EW

COTS, open architecture to be designed into Navy combat systems with VTG task order

Avionics

Kontron announces availability of COBALT S1901 integrated mission computer

Avionics

MOSA- and COTS-based processing and networking modules to equip C-130J fleet

Comms

DARPA wants satellite constellations to talk to each other

Radar/EW

Doubling down: Intel’s 8-core Xeon processor raises the performance bar for rugged systems

Radar/EW

Automation, digitization, and GaN drive shipboard radar upgrades

From The Editor

Supply-chain headaches

A.I.

Optimizing AI-transportable compute architectures

Comms

Per Vices Releases Cyan EC SDR – with 64 DSP channels

Cyber

Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) – A primer

From The Editor

Military avionics market flying steady

Radar/EW

Modular Open Systems Approach roadmap detailed by Curtiss-Wright at AUSA Now

Comms

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions to acquire PacStar, provider of battlefield network operations solutions

Comms

Microcontroller for space use gets European Space Agency win

Unmanned

Gray Eagle STOL drone makes first ship-to-land flight with South Korean navy

Radar/EW

Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor completes live-fire test with tactical ballistic missile

Comms

Data link tool garners BAE Systems $85 million Navy contract addition

Avionics

Sweden chooses C-390 Millennium as new military transport aircraft

Unmanned

Gray Eagle STOL drone makes first ship-to-land flight with South Korean navy

Radar/EW

Wireless power beaming technology for U.S. Army to be developed by Raytheon

Comms

German reconnaissance vehicles to receive upgraded sensor technology from Hensoldt