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

Mar 17, 2022 1:00PM EDT (3 years, 3 months 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...

Applying a MOSA Strategy Across Multiple Domains

Feb 23, 2022 3:30PM EDT (3 years, 3 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...

Bringing MOSA to electronic warfare applications

Feb 23, 2022 1:00PM EDT (3 years, 3 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...

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

Feb 23, 2022 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 3 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...

MOSA for Military Aviation Platforms

Feb 23, 2022 11:30AM EDT (3 years, 3 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...

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

Feb 23, 2022 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 3 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 4 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 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 4 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 5 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 10:00AM EDT (3 years, 6 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 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 7 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 1:00PM EDT (3 years, 8 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 10:00AM EDT (3 years, 8 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 10:30AM EDT (3 years, 8 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 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 9 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...

Leveraging VMEBus in Modern Military Electronics Systems

Aug 26, 2021 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 9 months ago)

The VMEbus standard will mark its 40th birthday this fall. The first standard out of the VITA Standards Organization, VMEBus is still going strong today selling nearly as many systems as its “replacement,” VPX. The standard was ratified more than a decade before the famous Department of Defense comm...

FACE Technical Standard – Driving Commonality in Avionics Systems

Aug 24, 2021 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 9 months ago)

Applying open architecture and open standards to modern avionics systems has been the goal of the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) since its inception. The FACE 3.0 standard enables reuse reuse software elements via common application programming interfaces (API). With 80%-90% percent o...

Driving Cybersecurity and Trusted Computing in Defense Systems

Aug 04, 2021 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 10 months ago)

Embedded computing for military applications is vulnerable to cyberthreats like every other system. Threats are prevalent throughout every part of the system from the ICs to the signal-board computer to the software. Trust needs to be assured with each hardware component and software element. This w...

Ruggedizing COTS Systems for Extreme Military Environments

Aug 03, 2021 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 10 months ago)

Designers of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electronics systems take the best of commercial technology such as processors and FPGAs and enable them to work in extreme military environments. This transformation often means ruggedization to protect the state-of-the art integrated circuit and RF compo...

Reducing SWaP in ISR Signal Processing Applications

Jul 22, 2021 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 11 months ago)

Military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) programs have put a premium on reducing size, weight, and power (SWaP) in their embedded signal processing systems. Everything is trending smaller. As a result military program managers are creating more stringent SWaP requirements for ev...

FACE™ Business Guide (v3.0) - Understanding the Value Proposition of the FACE Approach

Jul 15, 2021 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 11 months ago)

This webinar will discuss the latest version of the FACE Business Guide (v3.0), which serves as a reference for senior leadership from both Government and industry to understand the value proposition of the FACE Approach. The goals of the webinar are to: • Provide a short FACE Executive Overview...

Securing FPGA based Defense Electronics with Invisible Keys

Jun 10, 2021 2:00PM EDT (4 years ago)

As defense electronics systems become increasingly complex, with AI, Machine Learning and greater connectivity, the attack surface of these devices increases in parallel with the sophistication of adversaries. Traditional hardware security methods are easily circumvented, making it easier to clon...

Solving DAL-A Safety Certification Challenges for Military Avionics Systems

Jun 01, 2021 11:30AM EDT (4 years ago)

Avionics hardware and software continue to get more complex as they add capability to cockpit systems and ease of use to pilots. In tandem, complexity also mounts regarding the process of certifying these multicore, graphics-processing, and other avionics products and systems. This webcast featuring...

Cooling Electronics: Solving Military Thermal - Management Challenges

May 25, 2021 11:00AM EDT (4 years ago)

The performance and capability of modern vehicle electronics (vetronics); radar; electronic warfare; avionics; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems are enabled by commercial processors and FPGAs – all of which generate lots of heat. These systems must also survive in extr...

How SOSA Aligns with Current Open Standards

May 11, 2021 2:00PM EDT (4 years, 1 month ago)

One of the keys to the success of the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) is that it was developed by aligning with current open standards and open systems architectures, including FACE, HOST, REDHAWK, MORA, OpenVPX, and similar specifications. The SOSA Consortium also works closely with such st...