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Guest Blog: From Evangelism to Mandate: The Rise of MOSA

Guest Blog: From Evangelism to Mandate: The Rise of MOSA

For many COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] vendors and VITA members, the Tri-Service Memo issued in January 2019 by the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force was the highest validation of several decades of their combined efforts.

09/07/2023
Military Embedded Systems

Tactical Decision-Making Demands Increasing Speeds and Volume of Data Processing

For defense applications, responsiveness, accuracy, and precision have never been more critical to mission success.

08/03/2023
A Tour of VITA AFT Cooling Standards in 2023

A Tour of VITA AFT Cooling Standards in 2023

For critical and intelligent deployed embedded modules, air-flow-through (AFT) cooling describes an approach that brings the coolant much closer to heat-generating electronics than standard conduction-cooled approaches.

08/03/2023
Military Embedded Systems Magazine

Bringing the Benefits of GCIA to Next-generation Ground Vehicles

The partnership between Curtiss-Wright and BAE Systems to develop a standardized MOSA open architecture for next-generation ground vehicles shows how MOSA can be leveraged to deliver new capabilities to next-generation ground vehicles.

05/15/2023
Avionics International

Open or Out: U.S. Military Requirements for Modular Open Systems Architectures

Now that the Army has chosen its preferred Future Long Range Assault Aircraft in Bell’s V-280 advanced tiltrotor, the race is on to populate it with mission systems that will allow the machine to operate through adversaries’ sophisticated air defense systems.

03/21/2023
Military Embedded Systems

Optimizing 100G VPX

Currently, there are two options for VITA 46.30 connectors: the TE Connectivity RT3 and Amphenol R-VPX EVO2 connectors, both of which meet the ANSI/VITA 46.30 standard intended for 100G (4-lanes @ 25 Gbaud) systems, and potentially beyond.

03/20/2023
Aerospace Tech Review

High Speed Cameras for Aerospace Testing

High speed cameras are used to capture pictures of very rapid events that would be impossible to capture with normal cameras.

03/01/2023
Understanding GCIA

Understanding GCIA: A Paradigm Shift for Establishing an Overall Ground-combat Vehicle Architecture

The U.S. Army has long pursued a standardized infrastructure and architecture for ground-combat vehicle hardware and networking.

02/16/2023