Military threats are accelerating at machine speed, so military forces are adding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to their arsenals of sensor, signal, and image processing to analyze vast streams of data in real time.

Military and aerospace defense integrators, especially in the signal-processing application space, have typically turned to low-latency FPGA devices as coprocessors for signal-processing CPUs, forming the technical pillar for ingesting and processing massive amounts of time-critical radar and sensor data.

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.

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.

Curtiss-Wright, in collaboration with Wind River, Ansys, and CoreAVI, demonstrated a new digital cockpit flight display at the 2024 MOSA Industry & Government Summit & Expo.