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Plan With Confidence: Route to a Successful DO-178C Multi-Core Certification

Sep 27, 2018 2PM EDT (5 years, 6 months ago)

You chose a multi-core processor platform for your next avionics system. Although this gives you a lot of potential benefits in terms of reduced costs, spares management and obsolescence, it also adds a layer of complexity in terms of safety certification.

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Benefits of GaN technology for Electronic Warfare and Radar Applications

Sep 20, 2018 11AM EDT (5 years, 7 months ago)

The hottest RF and microwave technology in the military radar and electronic community continues to be Gallium Nitride (GaN). The industry is still getting educated on all the possibilities that GaN brings to the design table from a performance standpoint especially in active electronically scanned...

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Leveraging Open Standards and C4ISR for Multi-domain Challenges in Modern Warfare

Aug 30, 2018 2PM EDT (5 years, 7 months ago)

For any military, the key to victory is dominance in multiple battlefield domains -- ground, sea, air, space, and now cyber. To achieve that dominance militaries must leverage communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) technology across those domains.

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Affordable Safety Critical Systems: The Basics

Jun 20, 2018 2PM EDT (5 years, 10 months ago)

As R&D budgets are reduced, enabling flexibility and code reuse through the use of common building blocks across the enterprise are keys to greater affordability. These software components need to be modular, upgradeable and customizable to meet the needs of various hardware platforms, but defining...

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Next-Generation Military Radar Tech Outlook

May 31, 2018 11AM EDT (5 years, 10 months ago)

Designers of next-generation military radar systems look to deliver enhanced capability to track and counter increasingly sophisticated threats, all at the lowest cost possible, while also factoring in ease of installation and upgrades. New radar systems that meet these requirements leverage size, w...

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Leveraging Embedded Systems Solutions While Reducing SWaP for EW, SIGINT, and Radar Applications

Apr 17, 2018 11AM EDT (6 years ago)

As enemy threats become more complicated and sophisticated, there is within the Department of Defense (DoD) a demand for advanced RF and microwave solutions to counter those threats. Spectrum dominance, electronic warfare (EW), radar upgrades, and other sensor applications require system designers t...

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Solving Avionics Safety Certification Challenges for Modern Aircraft

Apr 17, 2018 2PM EDT (6 years ago)

Whether it's a commercial passenger jet, a general aviation aircraft, a military fighter jet, or combat helicopter, avionics technology continues to get more and more sophisticated and relies increasingly on the latest commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software. Civil aviation authorities...

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Avionics Safety Certification Challenges with UAVs

Mar 22, 2018 2PM EDT (6 years, 1 month ago)

Unmanned aircraft, drones, remotely-piloted aircraft, or whatever one chooses to call them are increasing in number and often staying ahead of the regulatory bodies tasked with setting their safety standards. Compliance with FAA safety certification standards such as DO-178 B and C for software and...

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Thermal Management Challenges in Modern Military Computer Systems

Mar 20, 2018 11AM EDT (6 years, 1 month ago)

Designers of embedded computing systems for military applications such as avionics, electronic warfare, radar, etc., love the advantages modern processors and FPGAs bring them but continue to need innovative ways to deal with the extra heat these components bring with them especially in small form f...

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Enabling Open Architectures and Commonality in Military Sensor Systems

Feb 21, 2018 11AM EDT (6 years, 2 months ago)

A demand for commonality is driving procurement and technology development within the Department of Defense (DoD). Commonality is enabled by open architectures and technology reuse across multiple platforms -- from radar to electronic warfare to ISR sensors. The cost benefits of commonality happen n...

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Enabling Open Architectures and Commonality in Military Sensor Systems

Feb 21, 2018 11AM EDT (6 years, 2 months ago)

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Reducing Avionics Packaging Up to 40%: MiniMRP Leads the Next Generation of Avionics Packaging

Dec 06, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 4 months ago)

The Mini Modular Rack Principle (MiniMRP), standardized in ARINC 836, is a design and modular component solution for avionics systems that distributes avionics throughout the aircraft in smaller, lighter package configurations -- reducing avionics packaging space up to 40%!

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Safety Certification Key to Sharing the Sky for Avionics and UAVs

Nov 15, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 5 months ago)

Drones, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), or whatever you wish to call them are everywhere. Your neighbor probably has one. But, are they safe enough to share the airspace with manned aircraft like commercial passenger platforms and even small business jets? Not reall...

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Increasing the Level of Reliability of Deployed Software Defined Radios

Nov 14, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 5 months ago)

As SDRs are increasingly being used in remotely deployed applications, a critical gap has emerged in how a remote operator of a Software Defined Radio can ensure the device is functioning and has not exceeded critical operational and environmental parameters. With this gap in mind, new tools are bei...

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Certifying COTS Hardware and Software for Modern Avionics

Nov 07, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 5 months ago)

Certification standards bodies on both sides of the Atlantic are becoming more open to certifying commercial--off--the--shelf (COTS) hardware and software as designers of these systems show evidence Design Assurance Level (DAL) A in their solutions. These developments are enabled by standards suc...

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Reducing SWaP in RF and Microwave Designs for EW, SIGINT, and Radar Applications

Sep 29, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 6 months ago)

Reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements are affecting every area of military designs especially RF and microwave solutions for electronic warfare (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and radar applications. This E-cast of industry experts will cover how military electronics designers are...

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Enabling Multifunctional Electronic Warfare Systems

Sep 28, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 6 months ago)

Traditionally the electronic warfare (EW) market has been flavored with customized systems and stovepipe technology based on closed architectures. Yet as adversary's threats become more sophisticated, the pressure has mounted on designers to create multifunctional EW systems that can adapt and respo...

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Solving Real Time Direction Finding and Spectrum Monitoring with Software Defined Radios

Sep 20, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 7 months ago)

As the variety and complexity of communication systems in the modern RF battlefield increase, the need to quickly design, deploy and field upgrade spectrum monitoring and direction finding solutions becomes paramount. Software Defined Radio (SDR) platforms for these applications need to cover wide f...

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Reducing Development Time and Managing SWaP-C in Defense Electronics Systems

Sep 07, 2017 11AM EDT (6 years, 7 months ago)

Military electronics systems designers of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), systems, avionics, and other applications continue to face requirements for reduced size,weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) in their programs along with more and more pressure for quick turn arounds on thei...

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Make Your High-Integrity Code Safe and Secure

Aug 16, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 8 months ago)

Attend this webcast to learn how to verify the quality, reliability, and security of high-integrity software. You'll learn to do this thoroughly and efficiently using automated static code analysis based on formal methods.

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COTS Signal Processing for Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems

Aug 15, 2017 11AM EDT (6 years, 8 months ago)

Many of the feats accomplished by modern military radar and electronic warfare (EW) systems are enabled by commercial technology -- from the signal processors to FPGAs, to analog to digital converters and digital to analog converters, to the board and system level. Cognitive EW and multifunctional s...

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Demystifying Security for Military Data Storage

Jun 28, 2017 11AM EDT (6 years, 9 months ago)

Today's military sensor and other high-performing processing systems generate massive amounts of data. Often, this sensitive or mission critical data is stored on Solid State Drives. While COTS SSDs can usually offer an attractive initial price, their short-comings for military applications often en...

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Too Hot to Handle: Enabling Efficient Thermal Management in Military Electronics

May 04, 2017 2PM EDT (6 years, 11 months ago)

Commercial processors and FPGAs promise and deliver performance advantages for military communications systems, sensor applications, radar, and electronic warfare programs at a lower price point than custom-designed systems. But to accomplish that performance they must generate a lot of heat and eve...

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Unmanned Aircraft and Safety Certification

Mar 15, 2017 2PM EDT (7 years, 1 month ago)

Autonomous aircraft -- from hand-thrown unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to high-flying jet-powered platforms are close to being certified to fly in multiple sections of the national airspace. The main hurdles remaining are safety related such as properly certifying their hardware and software for fl...

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GaN for Military Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems

Feb 09, 2017 11AM EDT (7 years, 2 months ago)

Military radar and electronic warfare (EW) system designers are leveraging Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology more and more for their RF solutions as the price for GaN devices drops and as the industry learns more about GaN's performance benefits. GaN enables power density and higher efficiencies not...

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