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

Rugged 3U CHAMP-XD1 and 6U CHAMP-XD2 OpenVPX modules feature thermal interconnects optimized to take full advantage of new Intel Xeon processors.

Curtiss-Wright’s VICTORY Compliant 2nd Gen Digital Beachhead system now supports the requirement for providing M-Code GPS capability for the U.S. Army’s Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) architecture. Read the press release!

New Parvus DuraWORX 80-41 delivers 4th gen Intel Core i7 processor and Cisco 5915 router in a rugged and fanless SWaP-optimized LRU

2nd Generation Digital Beachhead switch include GbE layer 2 switching/layer 3 routing, embedded GPS, and multicore Arm processing at 50% size reduction

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

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