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

Sep 08, 2021 11AM EDT (2 years, 8 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 11AM EDT (2 years, 8 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 2PM EDT (2 years, 8 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 2PM EDT (2 years, 9 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 2PM EDT (2 years, 9 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 2PM EDT (2 years, 9 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 2PM EDT (2 years, 9 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 2PM EDT (2 years, 11 months 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 11AM EDT (2 years, 11 months 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 11AM EDT (2 years, 11 months 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 2PM EDT (2 years, 11 months 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...

Priority One: Raising the Bar for Simulation and Training Systems

May 04, 2021 2PM EDT (3 years ago)

Given the complexity involved, integrating global and local simulation and training systems is difficult under the best of circumstances. For starters, legacy simulators use different standards for data, voice and video. In addition, modern architectures demand the use of cloud-based and distributed...

Expert Discussion: The FACE™ Technical Standard and Avionics Safety Certification

Apr 29, 2021 2PM EDT (3 years ago)

A major challenge for an avionics software integrator is certifying their avionics systems to meet FAA certification standards such as DO-178C Design Assurance Level (DAL) A. The certification process can be very expensive and time-consuming. Having the capability to port safety-certified software f...

MOSA and Open – What is Real? Fiction?

Apr 27, 2021 11AM EDT (3 years ago)

The Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) is now a dominant strategy in military procurements. L3Harris is now using MOSA to win new defense programs that break down legacy stovepipe system architectures with their dedicated supply chains and is replacing these systems with standards-based hardware a...

Introduction to FPGA Zynq® UltraScale™

Mar 31, 2021 11AM EDT (3 years, 1 month ago)

With the ARM processor cores and FPGA logic all on the same chip, a designer has the ability to do high performance embedded applications in a smaller footprint with multi-processor system on a chip performance. Agenda Topics: Types of Zynq Ultrascale+ Features of Acropack Zynq Ultrascale+ APZU Carr...

Accelerate Unit Testing Safety Critical Software with Cantata - US

Mar 23, 2021 1PM EDT (3 years, 1 month ago)

In this webinar QA Systems will discuss and demonstrate how the automated unit and integration testing tool Cantata can accelerate your safety standards compliance. We will see how embedded industry leaders employ the latest easy to use techniques for requirements tracing, automatic test case genera...

SOSA Conformance and What it Means to You

Feb 24, 2021 2PM EDT (3 years, 2 months ago)

The Sensor Open System Architecture (SOSA™) Technical Standard applies open-architecture concepts to high-performance defense sensor systems such as radar, electronic warfare, and SIGINT platforms. The goal of the standard is to design a non-propriety open systems architecture based on DoD-relevant...

How Will SOSA 1.0 Impact Radar & Electronic Warfare Designs

Feb 04, 2021 2PM EDT (3 years, 3 months ago)

The arrival of Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA)Technical Standard 1.0 means a realization of the efforts of not only the Tri-Services (Air Force, Army, Navy), but also industry and academia in bringing open architecture concepts to electronic warfare, radar, SIGINT, and other mission-critical...

COTS, C++, and Standards Compliance : Minimize the Pain, Maximize the Quality

Jan 21, 2021 9AM EDT (3 years, 3 months ago)

A new requirement for adherence to function safety or security standards can be a rude awakening for the uninitiated. There can be no half measures when applications are critical. Requirements traceability, static analysis, dynamic coverage analysis, and unit/integration testing are deemed esse...

Accelerating Avionics Design & Testing through FACE Conformance: An Integrated Model by Boeing, US Army & Aerospace Leaders

Dec 10, 2020 2PM EDT (3 years, 5 months ago)

Pre-integrated, commercially developed software that adheres to industry safety and technology standards will dramatically accelerate the design, development and testing of next generation avionics.

Evolving Standards: How VITA and SOSA are Leading the Change

Dec 02, 2020 2PM EDT (3 years, 5 months ago)

With the rapid advancement of defense systems technology, new interconnect standards are enabling new possibilities for high-density, high-speed connections in harsh environments. This 60-minute webinar explores embedded computing industry trends, as well as new and upcoming standards for rugged int...

How To Enable the Intelligent Edge for Critical Avionics Software

Dec 01, 2020 11AM EDT (3 years, 5 months ago)

Modernization efforts that require consolidating multiple proven software systems onto a single intelligent edge platform are difficult. Fortunately, there are strategies that allow you to maintain your software integrity and partitioning while taking advantage of cutting edge software development t...

Introduction to the FACE Technical Standard

Nov 18, 2020 2PM EDT (3 years, 5 months ago)

This webinar is suitable for all individuals and organizations that would like to know more about the FACE Technical Standard, including avionics program managers, airborne systems designers, avionics applications software developers, engineering managers, FACE software suppliers, and military avion...

Enabling Open Architectures in Military ISR, Radar, Electronic Warfare Systems

Nov 12, 2020 2PM EDT (3 years, 5 months ago)

Experts from all three services -- Air Force, Army, and Navy -- are working together with industry to enable open architectures in intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), radar, and electronic warfare systems. Their efforts through initiatives such as the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (...

CSFC: Protecting Classified, Top Secret, and Secret Data Via Commercial Solution

Nov 04, 2020 11AM EDT (3 years, 6 months ago)

Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) is part of the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) commercial cybersecurity strategy to leverage commercial technology to protect national security systems. CSFC simultaneously implements two compliant commercial security components in a layered solution to...