
Curing the longevity of supply blues
Mike Slonosky discusses the longevity of supply concerns that can keep embedded military program managers up at night in the Power Architecture Today Blog.
Data storage faces network-centric future
John Keller with Military & Aerospace Electronics discusses how rugged data storage is dominated by solid-state disks but rotating hard disks are emerging with data security and sharing functions.
M-Code brings next-gen GPS to SWaP-constrained ground vehicles
Mike Southworth discusses the combination of today’s latest COTS hardware and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) modernization initiatives.
Close to the Action: Small, remote and connected-new approaches to flight test instrumentation
Flight test instrumentation (FTI) engineers face a number of challenges when instrumenting aircraft, including an increasing push to reduce weight of equipment and wiring, gather more and more data, and the need to meet demanding time schedules while ensuring no data is lost during...
AltiVec is back
NXP’s new T-series processor has brought back the AltiVec floating point SIMD instruction set, the heart of many defense and aerospace digital signal processing (DSP) applications for the last two decades.
OpenVPX standard hits five years of enabling interoperability in military embedded systems
John McHale with Military Embedded Systems discusses with industry experts how the OpenVPX standard has evolved since it's debut in 2010.
CERDEC becomes VITA's sponsor member followed by Curtiss-Wright initiative to support the U.S. Army's MORA
At the AUSA 2015 show, VITA announced their newest sponsor member, the U.S. Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC), who is developing the U.S. Army’s Modular Open RF Architecture (MORA).
Trusted boot in COTS computing
Mike Slonosky discusses the architects and integrators challenges as customers implement increasing requirements for safety- and security-critical applications.
Rugged routers enable the network-centric battlefield
J.R. Wilson with Military & Aerospace Electronics discusses how armored combat vehicles are becoming data centers using rugged network routers as the backbone.
Broadwell chip boosts GPU performance for COTS SBCs
Aaron Frank discusses the benefits of Intel's new Broadwell processor to embedded defense applications.