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.

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

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.

For rugged, integrated airborne surveillance system for Rio de Janeiro Police Force.

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.

New VRDV7000 delivers flexible, high density/high-quality SWaP-optimized dual-channel video recording/playback with metadata support.