The aerospace and defense embedded COTS market has started to see whole new classes of small and ultra-small line-replaceable unit (LRU) offerings.

New KAD/MAT/101 Processor Module Delivers User Programmable Linux Development Environment to Curtiss-Wright's Acra KAM-500 DAU Systems.

Flight test instrumentation users have to setup equipment from multiple vendors, a single metadata standard would make life much easier and yield more compatible systems.