Every month the McHale Report will host an online roundtable with experts from the defense electronics industry ? from major prime contractors to defense component suppliers. Each roundtable will explore topics important to the military embedded electronics market. This month we discuss the Nuclear Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) held last month in Boston, trends in radiation-hardened (rad-hard) electronics for military space systems, and the potential of impact of small satellites on space electronics designers.