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Unmanned
Cisco's industrial Ethernet switch goes mil rugged - Product
October 17, 2011
Cisco Systems routers and switches certainly provide value in many industrial or benign computing scenarios.
Unmanned
Simultaneous UAV video streaming maximized - Product
October 17, 2011
As UAVs rapidly gain traction as a viable means of intelligence gathering and transmission, being able to capture and process multiple video sources simultaneously is imperative.
Avionics
ARM inside SWaP-C savvy flight control computer - Product
October 17, 2011
Well known for sitting inside smartphones, GPS, and many other mobile devices, the ARM processor has found a home inside Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems' Versatile Flight Control Computer (VFCC).
Radar/EW
Chassis Monitoring Board keeps an eye on the system - Product
October 17, 2011
What good is it to be on a ship if the entire ship is sinking, figuratively speaking?
Radar/EW
35 W DC/DC converters bring on the rugged - Product
October 17, 2011
Power is an uber-popular watercooler topic at any company engineering military electronic applications or systems, being a critical consideration in defense designs. Accordingly, XP Power has incarnated its MTC35 COTS DC/DC converters, specially designed to ease the power and rugged woes.
Comms
Daily Briefing: News Snippets - Story
October 13, 2011
A roundup of the top mil tech and related headlines, including: Command Web plus Google equals Army operational picture; Northrop Grumman: 1 down, 9 to go; Boeing gives support, to the tune of $11 billion; Acquisition activity gets the GoAhead; and T-34 contract option could save lives, among other headlines.
Avionics
The impetus for the Quantum3D product lines acquisition, in one word: "Synergy" - Q&A with Ray Niacaris, Director of Operations and Sales at IData Visual Systems Inc., a subsidiary of ENSCO Inc. - Story
October 12, 2011
ENSCO put together a deal to acquire Quantum3D's IData and IGL 178 product lines and associated employees. The merger was announced earlier this year, shortly before Military Embedded Systems talked with Ray Niacaris, Director of Operations and Sales for the newly formed IData Visual Systems Inc. subsidiary of ENSCO Inc.
From The Editor
9/11 then and now: Technology, a memorial, and a SECDEF visit - Story
September 08, 2011
Everyone remembers where they were when they heard of the infamous 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the twin towers in New York, in addition to the Pentagon plane crash and the related Pennsylvania field plane crash. And, as the decade has passed, highlighting largely untouted technological advances that aided in post-9/11/01 al-Quaida seeking missions - in addition to examining Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta's visit to the National September 11 Memorial earlier this week - provides insight into 9/11 ... then and now.
Comms
NASA turns to the open source community for advice: Interview with Ray O'Brien, Chief Technology Officer for Information Technology at NASA Ames Research Center - Story
September 02, 2011
NASA's drive toward open source software (yes, you read that right) is showing up in the NASA-cofounded OpenStack open source development community and in NASA's open source software summit outreaches to the open source community. Ray O'Brien, CTO for IT at NASA Ames Research Center, talks about what's behind NASA's drive toward open source - and whether there are any resultant security concerns. Edited excerpts follow.
Radar/EW
Eliminating the Oz factor: How to migrate from Core 2 Duo to 2nd-Gen Core i7 - Story
September 02, 2011
Power consumption, thermal management, and performance as helpful rather than hindering in migration from Core 2 Duo to second-gen Core i7? Oh my.
Comms
Smartphone encryption app helps sensitive information get more secure: Interview with Ian Meakin, VP of Marketing at Cellcrypt, Inc. - Story
September 02, 2011
CellCrypt, Inc. says they've developed a remedy for securing securing smartphones (including secure text for Blackberry), used by the military and utilizing NSA Suite B and FIPS 140-2 crypto to secure sensitive but unclassified information. In the following interview, Managing Editor Sharon Hess got a behind-the-scenes look at how the application works technically, and found out whether it can protect the next level up: classified information. Edited excerpts follow.
Radar/EW
Rugged, prepackaged "shoeboxes" move into the mil tech fore, but what about program-specific tech? - Q&A with Paul Scanlon, General Manager of GE Intelligent Platforms Mil/Aero-Systems - Story
September 02, 2011
GE's GM of Mil/Aero-Systems, Paul Scanlon, shares insight with Military Embedded Systems as to where proven technology versus program-specific technology stands now. Edited excerpts follow.
Unmanned
GPUs shift the computing paradigm: A 10 to 100x performance increase coming soon to a military system near you: Interview with Kevin Berce, Business Development Manager at NVIDIA - Story
September 02, 2011
GPU manufacturer NVIDIA has not only been keeping up with the times by offering processors for smartphones and tablets; it has also been enabling key shifts in the defense paradigm: Remember the days when it took four to six hours just to render one hour of UAV video? Now NVIDIA GPUs enable UAV video rendering in real-time. And NVIDIA is set to deliver an ultra-accelerated, GPU-enabled 10 to 100x performance increase for the defense industry, as a recent interview with Kevin Berce, NVIDIA Business Development Manager, reveals. Edited excerpts follow.
Comms
Tin/lead conversion thwarts tin whiskers - Product
August 17, 2011
Whether we're talking the International Space Station, a C-17, or a Humvee, tin whiskers can throw a monkey wrench into system functionality - and even result in loss of life.
Comms
Nighttime is the right time for this IR night-vision spotlight - Product
August 17, 2011
It would be so convenient if military adversaries only struck when the sun was up - OK, dream on.
Radar/EW
DSP software eliminates signal-analysis headaches - Product
August 17, 2011
Digital Signal Processing is as integral to the military embedded scene as butter is to bread.
Comms
Simulation and training platform preps soldiers - Product
August 17, 2011
Since simulation and training are supposed to be realistic, how realistic is it for soldiers to have to learn commands and actions specific to operating the simulation device - actions that would never be used in combat?
Comms
PrivateEye could protect U.S. DoD privacy - Product
August 17, 2011
Could U.S. DoD workers using laptops outside (or even inside) the office use a PrivateEye?
Avionics
Rugged, compact computer meets the multi-mission challenge - Product
August 17, 2011
Attention, military designers: It just might be time to scrap your plans to swap in a display and bussed ATR when that critical system goes kerplunk.
Comms
Hermetic power packaging vs. PEMs for mil electronics: No power issues here - Story
July 27, 2011
In the midst of the debate over hermetic packaging versus Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits (PEMs) in mil electronics, Microsemi quietly yet confidently recently announced a full line of new and re-released military-level-upscreened PEMs incarnated (or reincarnated) as TVSs, MOSFETs, IGBTs, and rectifiers. An interview with Shane O'Donnell, Microsemi's Hi-Rel Plastic Devices Program Manager
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