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Bridging the Gap between Radar System Design and Test

Dec 07, 2021 10:00AM EDT (2 years, 11 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 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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, 4 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 (3 years, 5 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 11:30AM EDT (3 years, 5 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 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 5 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 6 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 6 months 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 6 months 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 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 6 months 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 11:00AM EDT (3 years, 7 months 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 1:00PM EDT (3 years, 7 months 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 8 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 9 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 9:00AM EDT (3 years, 10 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 2:00PM EDT (3 years, 11 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.