Industry experts say open standards are helping drive development in small-form-factor battlefield and aerospace hardware like system-on-chip and single-board computers.

It’s not just about shielding data drives from shock and vibration; designers also are looking for the latest in speed and capacity, and want encryption to protect data at rest, and security to foil tampering.

Curtiss-Wright and DDC-I Collaborate for First Live Demonstration of Deos DO-178 Level A RTOS on Safety-Certifiable Arm® V3-1703 Single Board Computer.

A rugged DTS1 NAS device that protects Top Secret data-at-rest now supports a MIL-STD-1275 filter that provides power supply spike and surge protection on ground vehicles.

Rugged DTS1 Protects NATO Restricted Data-At-Rest with Hardware and Software Full Disk Encryption (FDE) in a Single Device.

The demo features L3Harris’s FliteScene® Digital Moving Map Software, Green Hills Software INTEGRITY-178® tuMP RTOS, and Curtiss-Wright Single Board Computers and Graphics Modules.

Featured products will include ultra-small form factor mission computers and network switches, rugged high capacity storage solutions - such as the Data Transport System, and size, weight, and power (SWaP)-optimized embedded avionics systems - such as the ultra-lightweight Fortress Crash Protected Recorder.

Airbus aircraft links integration management system used in the demonstration is based on a safety certifiable rugged COTS processor system supplied by Curtiss-Wright.