Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions Honored by Military & Aerospace Electronics 2017 Innovators Awards Program
Curtiss-Wright honored with five Innovators Awards, including one Platinum, three Gold, and one Silver, for its OpenHPEC™ Accelerator Suite software, DuraCOR 312 miniature mission computer, DTS1 data transport system, VPX3-687 3U Ethernet switch, and Fortress flight data recorder
VITA 47: An Objective Baseline for High-Level Ruggedization
ANSI/VITA 47 is an American National Standards Institute standard that defines a rigorous test regime, enabling vendors to demonstrate that their VPX product is designed to perform optimally, while complying with specific environmental, manufacture, safety and quality criteria.
It’s Time for VITA 47: Raise the Bar on Defining Ruggedization, Reliability
Aaron Frank and Ivan Straznicky look at VITA 47 for ruggedization and reliability. The VITA Standards Organization’s ANSI/VITA 47 targets the Environments, Design and Construction, Safety, and Quality for Plug-In Units.
How New Data Acquisition Tech is Tackling the Information Mountain
Aircraft data acquisition technology continues to evolve with more modularity, increased processing power and real time air-to-ground transfer capabilities alongside increasing proliferation of engine, aircraft system and airframe component sensors.