Articles

We discuss the longevity of supply concerns that can keep embedded military program managers up at night in the Power Architecture Today Blog.

John Keller with Military & Aerospace Electronics discusses how rugged data storage is dominated by solid-state disks but rotating hard disks are emerging with data security and sharing functions.

Mike Southworth discusses the combination of today’s latest COTS hardware and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) modernization initiatives.

NXP’s new T-series processor has brought back the AltiVec floating point SIMD instruction set, the heart of many defense and aerospace digital signal processing (DSP) applications for the last two decades.

Flight test instrumentation (FTI) engineers face a number of challenges when instrumenting aircraft, including an increasing push to reduce weight of equipment and wiring, gather more and more data, and the need to meet demanding time schedules while ensuring no data is lost.

John McHale with Military Embedded Systems discusses with industry experts how the OpenVPX standard has evolved since it's debut in 2010.

At the AUSA 2015 show, VITA announced their newest sponsor member, the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), who is developing the U.S. Army’s Modular Open RF Architecture (MORA).

Mike Slonosky discusses the architects and integrators challenges as customers implement increasing requirements for safety- and security-critical applications.

Aaron Frank discusses the benefits of Intel's new Broadwell processor to embedded defense applications.

Steve Edwards discusses the past and present of standards such as VPX's ability to handle the demands of high-performance embedded computing applications.

The growing deployment of single board computers in military systems brings with it a number of engineering challenges.

We discuss the C4ISR/EW [Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare] Interoperability (VICTORY) initiative and its application on JLTV.