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February 2023

  
 
 
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The McHale Report, by militaryembedded.com Editorial Director John McHale, covers technology and procurement trends in the defense and aerospace electronics community.
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EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE
 
We have big news: Military Embedded Systems, in partnership with Shephard Media in the United Kingdom, have been named the official Media and Show Daily Partners for SOF Week 2023. The event – scheduled to be held in Tampa, Florida, the week of May 8, 2023 -- is managed by the Global SOF Foundation and Clarion Events on behalf of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM).

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TOP STORY
 
Boeing plans to finish production of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet by 2025 as the company pivots to future work, although it is possible the production line could continue as late as 2027, the company announced in a statement.

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TOP STORY
 
The Pentagon will send radars, counter-uncrewed air systems (C-UAS) technology, air defense units, and more in its latest aid package to Ukraine, the Defense Department announced in a statement.

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MIL TECH TRENDS
 
Today’s video applications, particularly in the defense arena, are challenged by more complex video-signal processing from an increasing number of video sources with higher bandwidth and higher resolutions. Critical to defense applications: minimizing latency between video capture and display.

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Electronic warfare, radar and ELINT applications demand direct RF solutions to deliver low-latency, fast data processing solutions for critical real-time decision-making. Mercury’s DRF3182 3U OpenVPX board offers fast direct RF wideband data capture at the edge with heterogenous FPGA processing, explosive 51.2 GSPS A/D & D/A speeds, Ku band frequencies from 2-18 GHz and six 100 GigE interfaces with an aggregate throughput of 75 GB/sec.
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MARKET RESEARCH
 
The military and aerospace semiconductor market will more than double from $6.3 billion in 2021 to $12.9 billion in 2031, a new report predicts.

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SPECIAL REPORT
 
When it comes to missiles, the future is hypersonic. That creates an array of challenges for the defense industry – and radar technology is at the forefront when it comes to developing technology to counter this growing threat.

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TOP STORY
 
The U.S. Army approved Northrop Grumman's Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) system, giving the program the green light to move forward with fielding CIRCM systems on more than 1,500 Army aircraft, the company announced in a statement.

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GUEST BLOG
 
The military is producing ever-larger amounts of valuable data from embedded systems at the edge. Now it needs more effective ways to share, understand, and act on that data – at or near the user and as close as possible to real time. By leveraging available technologies like containerization and tools to manage them, warfighters have the opportunity to make faster, smarter decisions where and when they’re needed to help achieve battlespace dominance.

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SPONSORED CONTENT
 
This week’s product, the Mercury Systems DRF3182 Direct RF Processing Module, is a new COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) open-architecture board that leverages Intel’s new Stratix 10 AX SoC field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Designed for electronic warfare (EW), electronic intelligence (ELINT), and radar applications, this technology can enhance a wide range of applications including software-defined radio (SDR) and communications.

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MARKET RESEARCH
 
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The global market for embedded systems used by the military is predicted to reach a revenue of $3.26 billion by 2031, growing at a combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9% during the forecast period 2022-2031, according to a nre report by Research Dive, "Military Embedded Systems Market: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2022-2031."

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TOP STORY
 
Babcock has won a contract to manage and operate Skynet, the military satellite communications system used by the UK Ministry of Defence, the company announced in a statement.

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TECHNOLOGY UPDATE COLUMN
 
Sensor experiments recently deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) during late 2022 may lead to greater understanding of the Earth’s ionosphere that will in turn enable more accurate predictive modeling and lead to increased resilience in the navigation and communications realms.

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GUEST BLOG
 
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DevSecOps – first defined more than 40 years ago – brings a lot of value to modern development of military embedded systems, as the world sees global instability, ransomware attacks, and shortened development cycle.

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TOP STORY
 
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reported that its "Thunderdome" cybersecurity and network architecture project hit its initial criteria for success and will be moving on to add elements and roll out to more locations.

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TOP STORY
 
A pilot program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) called Air Space Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution (ASTARTE) recently demonstrated its automated flightpath-planning software that the agency reports successfully deconflicted friendly missiles, artillery fire, and manned and unmanned aircraft while avoiding enemy fires in a simulated battle in contested airspace.

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Artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) engineering company Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) paired up with MIT Sea Grant to demonstrate AI for unmanned surface vehicles (USV) using the Navy's Unmanned Maritime Autonomy Architecture (UMAA).

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SPONSORED WHITE PAPER
 
Standex Electronics
Planar magnetics are one of the most reliable and cost-effective board-level solutions to address high-frequency circuits with high power density. Learn how and why in Standex’s whitepaper, Using Planar Magnetics to Enhance Performance in Advanced Mil/Aero Electronics.

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SPONSORED WHITE PAPER
 
Anritsu
The DoD is adapting commercial 5G technology to meet tactical communications needs in terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks. To ensure the successful operation of 5G, new test processes and solutions have been developed to help engineers verify designs and have confidence that their products comply with commercial industry and DoD standards.

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