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Cooling Systems: Removing Heat from Embedded Electronics Systems

May 25, 2022 2PM EDT (1 year, 10 months ago)

It has been said “With great power comes great responsibility.” In modern military electronics systems that mantra might more accurately be “With great processing capability comes a great responsibility to get the heat out.” Whether it’s a graphics processor, a general-purpose processor, or an FPGA,...

JADC2 and Data-Centricity: Creating a Joint Posture of Deterrence

May 24, 2022 11AM EDT (1 year, 11 months ago)

The unbridled aggression from adversaries in the Ukraine has underscored the need to create a military posture that positions the U.S. and its coalition partners in a constant state of readiness with real-time information and decision-making. To bring focus to this effort, the U.S. Department of Def...

Applications for Future SOSA Conformant Solutions

May 04, 2022 2PM EDT (1 year, 11 months ago)

Now that the Technical Standard for the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Reference Architecture, Edition 1.0 has been published, it is only a matter of time before products that are currently aligned to SOSA start going through the process to become conformant to the SOSA Technical Standard....

Protecting Devices with Security Anchored in Hardware

Apr 14, 2022 2PM EDT (2 years ago)

From mission-critical military electronics to the billions of IoT devices in homes, offices and factories, the need for security is growing rapidly. The exponential rise in data creation, and new workloads such as AI/ML with demand for low latency, real-time operation, require rapid advancement in c...

Applying a MOSA Strategy for Unmanned Systems

Apr 12, 2022 3PM EDT (2 years ago)

In 2019, Air Force, Army, and Navy leadership mandated that the U.S. military use a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for new program designs and refreshes, calling MOSA a “warfighting imperative.” MOSA strategies are now being applied across multiple domains – air, sea, land, space, and electrom...

Keynote for Unmanned Systems Virtual Conference – Exploring Blue UAS 2.0: Leveraging commercial tech for military UAS platforms

Apr 12, 2022 11AM EDT (2 years ago)

Speaker: Capt. Shelby Ochs, USMC, co-program manager of Blue sUAS 2.0 project for the Defense Innovation Unit

Hosted by Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Retired), Founder & CEO of P3 Tech Consulting LLC & host of the Dawn of Drones Podcast

Leveraging AI for Unmanned Systems Applications

Apr 12, 2022 12PM EDT (2 years ago)

Whether processing the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data collected by unmanned vehicles; coordinating manned/unmanned teaming; or countering swarms of drones, unmanned applications are dependent on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and will become even more so in the fut...

Navigating Safety Certification in UAS Platforms

Apr 12, 2022 1PM EDT (2 years ago)

Whether you call them UAVs, UASs, RPAs [remotely piloted aircraft], or just plain drones, they are not only a key force multiplier for the U.S. military but are also becoming a larger part of civilian airspace. While flight control technology for manned aircraft is well established and has many proc...

Unmanned Systems Virtual Conference

Apr 12, 2022 11AM EDT (2 years ago)

Unmanned aerial systems (UASs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), unmanned surface vessels (USVs), and unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) continue to be force multipliers for the U.S. military operations. These platforms not only deliver lethality in wartime but also feed the Department of Defense (Do...

Protecting Sensitive Data and Algorithms At-Rest, In-Motion, and (Now) In Use

Mar 29, 2022 12AM EDT (2 years ago)

While cryptographically protecting data at rest and in motion has become commonplace for military embedded systems that could fall into enemy hands, one vulnerability persists: the security of data or code as it’s moved into and used within working memory. In this web seminar, experts from Idaho...

Designing High-Performance Real-Time Avionics Systems for Multi-core processor

Mar 17, 2022 1PM EDT (2 years, 1 month ago)

The latest generation multi-core processors deliver high-performance compute and advanced security features, which can be used with real-time operating systems to meet safety and regulatory requirements for avionics systems. The FAA CAST-32A position paper defines objectives for the use of multicore...

MOSA for Military Aviation Platforms

Feb 23, 2022 11AM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

When most people think of a MOSA strategy for military aviation platforms, the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard usually comes to mind first. FACE, which enables the reuse of software elements across multiple avionics platforms, is in fact one important tool in the MOS...

Keynote for MOSA Virtual Summit: C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) “The Army’s SOSA Instantiation”

Feb 23, 2022 11AM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

This briefing will describe the Army’s push for modular open system architecture approaches across all C5ISR systems, to include current S&T activities and Acquisitions plans. CMOSS comprises a family of standards that together allow for system functional decomposition across clearly defined hardwar...

Bringing MOSA to electronic warfare applications

Feb 23, 2022 1PM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

As adversarial threats continue to become more complex, U.S. military electronic warfare (EW) and signal intelligence (SIGINT) solutions must be able to adapt more quickly. For decades, these systems have been closed architectures based on proprietary system and component designs, all of which have...

Applying a MOSA Strategy Across Multiple Domains

Feb 23, 2022 3PM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

MOSA is not just about open architectures like SOSA, FACE, or CMOSS, but it also involves how those initiatives and standards can applied across all domains – air, sea, land, space, cyber, and spectrum – to create a MOSA ecosystem. Such an ecosystem enables the DoD to deploy capability more quickly...

MOSA Virtual Summit: Applying open architectures in avionics, radar, electronic warfare, & C5ISR systems

Feb 23, 2022 11AM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

In early 2019, Air Force, Army, and Navy leadership issued a joint memo mandating that the U.S. military use a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) for new program designs and refreshes, calling MOSA a “warfighting imperative.” Now, as of 2021, MOSA is the law, as Congress passed legislation requiri...

If your supply chain is compromised, the rest of your cyber strategy doesn’t matter

Feb 01, 2022 2PM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

In light of the "Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity" signed May 2021, and government technology planners looking to leverage more cloud architectures and IoT technologies, securing the services that involve the cloud has become critical. The Government’s trusted supply chain eff...

Accelerating Radar Research with an Open Architecture

Jan 26, 2022 11AM EDT (2 years, 2 months ago)

As threats and countermeasures evolve, researchers and systems engineers are challenged with bringing new radar capabilities from concept to the lab to fielded systems. A major obstacle on this journey is the time it takes to migrate IP from simulation to firmware, and to build up boards and infrast...

Stopping Stealthy Counterfeit Chips with PUF Helper-Data Images

Jan 18, 2022 2PM EDT (2 years, 3 months ago)

PUFs, physically unclonable functions, are mixed-signal circuits which rely on variations unique to a specific chip in order to self-generate a digital “fingerprint.” These fingerprints can be used as the basis of cryptographic keys. While that’s useful, the real power of PUFs is leveraging their un...

Bridging the Gap between Radar System Design and Test

Dec 07, 2021 10AM EDT (2 years, 4 months ago)

As digital engineering initiatives gain traction in the radar design workflow, many systems are being delivered with increased capability. Advancements in functionality and integration have made modern radar systems more challenging to design and test. During this webinar, you’ll learn about:...

Secure Live, Real-Time Data Drives Relevance into MS&T Systems

Nov 18, 2021 11AM EDT (2 years, 5 months ago)

As the US DoD transitions into a data-centric enterprise, deriving real-time intelligence from a vast array of multi-supplier, multi-service, and multi-national sensing assets, it must also evolve its training systems to enable “train as you fight” scenarios. In addition, it must include mission co...

Ruggedizing Commercial Displays and Mobile Computers for the Warfighter

Oct 20, 2021 1PM EDT (2 years, 6 months ago)

Commercial computing technology - smartphones, tablets, laptops, servers, etc. — brings consumers real-time communication, unprecedented processing power, high-resolution graphics, you name it. But, enabling that same tech for use by warfighters on the battlefield at sea or in a cockpit requires uni...

Overcoming the Challenges of Meeting CAST-32A Objectives for Avionics Software

Oct 05, 2021 10AM EDT (2 years, 6 months ago)

Creating a multicore platform for safety critical avionics is the next major step avionics manufactures must take in order to bring new innovations to market. Years of study have been invested by certification authorities and industry suppliers to identify the additional objectives (or requirements)...

Deploying the SOSA Technical Standard: Benefits & Challenges

Sep 30, 2021 10AM EDT (2 years, 6 months ago)

The Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA) Consortium and its Tri-Service leadership (Air Force, Army, and Navy) and industry members are all involved in developing a Technical Standard that will be a requirement for future electronic warfare, radar, SIGINT, ISR, and other sensor systems. The joint...

When Delays Mean Danger: Enabling Safety Critical Sensor Fusion in Today's Rugged Airborne Applications

Sep 08, 2021 11AM EDT (2 years, 7 months ago)

Today's avionics applications face many challenges. From size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constraints, to mixed criticality requirements, low-latency data throughput, and complex certifications, applications must balance an array of factors while keeping efficiency, performance, and safety in check. T...