Thanks to its longevity and modularity, the PC/104 standard continues to be popular with military system designers, especially, as their size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements continue to shrink.

Rocket Lab selected Curtiss-Wright's rugged, modular Space COTS Acra KAM-500 Data Acquisition Unit for the Electron Launch Vehicle. Read more here!

William Wong with Electronic Design discusses how cooling is always a challenge in rugged embedded applications, especially military applications.

Working with ESA – leading in turn to a key contribution to the IXV spaceplane – was the catalyst to help turn one Irish firm into a full-fledged space solution company, whose customers today include NASA, SpaceX, Boeing and Airbus Defence and Space.

John Keller with Military & Aerospace Electronics considers how virtual-machine technology, fast interconnects, innovative thermal-management techniques, and modular architectures bring data-center power to embedded computing.

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

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

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