Hypersonic platforms provide a challenge for flight test campaigns due to the application's flight profiles and environments.

A recent military exercise in Germany trialled the interoperability of several tactical datalink and communications protocols used throughout NATO.

A successful model-based engineering effort for rugged system infrastructure design will result in shorter development cycles, fewer failures and rework, more innovation, and ultimately higher-quality products.

For effective multidomain operations, sensor data needs to be processed rapidly and shared across different military branches. Achieving this level of interoperability requires sophisticated technologies to handle vast and complex data streams in real time, particularly AI and parallel sensor fusion processing at the edge.

Emerging standards such as VITA 100 and VNX+ will double board and backplane speeds, add a new board size, and help make tiny computers possible for handheld devices and uncrewed devices.

High performance embedded module and system designers must understand the technical considerations required to fully realize the true benefits of 100G technology.

Here’s how it usually goes: Faced with the need to upgrade an older platform or design a new one, a prime contractor will select – where it makes most sense in terms of risk, cost, and time – a mix of COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] suppliers and system integrators to function as subcontractors that will develop and build the various subsystems their program demands.

How do you design vehicle electronics (vetronics) to be easily upgraded as technology inevitably marches forward? These are the issues the defense industry must focus on in 2024 and beyond.