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Creating common standards for satellite payload designs
John McHale, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media

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Defense Tech Wire

Defense Tech Wire: USAF planes, laser JDAM
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Defense Tech Wire: Special Ops upgrades, Defense Prime Contractor updates
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Defense Tech Wire: Boeing delivers upgraded V-22 to USMC, Defense Prime…
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Defense Tech Wire: U.S. Navy spotlight, Warfighter comms
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor

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Field Intelligence

Crunch time for signal processing
Charlotte Adams, Contributing Editor
Routing data at the tactical edge
Charlotte Adams, Contributing Editor
High-definition sensors drive video compression
Duncan Young, GE Intelligent Platforms
Enhancing MIL-STD-1553′s bit rate
Duncan Young,
COTS technologies ready for UAV deployment
Duncan Young, OpenSystems Media
Many-core processor devices head for advanced sensors
Duncan Young,
Supercomputers drive high-performance embedded multiprocessing
Duncan Young, GE Intelligent Platforms

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Mil Tech Trends

Nothing new: Military users demand more performance and low power from…
John McHale, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media
High-performance SBC form-factor trend forges military electronics
Brad Trent, Trenton Technologies
SBCs move beyond traditional roles in embedded architectures
Doug Patterson, Aitech Defense Systems
Trusting the tools: An agile approach to tool qualification for DO-178C
Dr. Benjamin Brosgol, AdaCore and Greg Gicca, AdaCore
DO-178C brings modern technology to safety-critical software development
Tim King, DDC-I and Bill StClair, LDRA
Mitigating undesired input beat frequencies in parallel DC-DC converter arrays
Kai Johnstad, Vicor Corporation
Power electronics designs trending smaller and more efficient
John McHale, Editorial Director

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Industry Spotlight

Secure virtualization for tactical environments
David Egts, Red Hat
Can sensitive data for tactical military environments be protected in the…
Louise Funke, Translattice and Robert Day, LynuxWorks
Automated performance measurement and timing analysis help military embedded systems avoid…
Dr. Andrew Coombes, Rapita Systems
Symbolic execution techniques identify vulnerabilities in safety-critical code
Paul Anderson, GrammaTech
Open source clears up the military stovepipe mess: Interview with Carl…
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor

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Military Technology Insider

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Special Report

Lowering cost per mile in military vehicles drives vetronics designs
John McHale, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media
New aircraft platforms get cut back, opening the door for avionics…
John McHale, Editorial Director
Greetings from Germany
OpenSystems Media
Radar signal processing upgrades use embedded COTS hardware
John McHale, Editorial Director
JTRS update: Radio systems move closer to deployment, while GMR gets…
John McHale, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media
JTRS update: Radio systems move closer to deployment, while GMR gets…
John McHale, Editorial Director
COTS vendors, while concerned about extensive DoD budget cuts, see opportunities…
John McHale, Editorial Director, OpenSystems Media

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Technology Feature

Radar and sonar applications find a home in CompactPCI and VPX
David Pursley, Kontron
VPX standards keep pace with faster fabrics
Bob Sullivan, Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems and Ivan Straznicky, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing
Expanding options in VPX connectivity
Gregory Powers, TE Connectivity
All discretes are not created equal
Amir Shafy, North Atlantic Industries
Designing rugged, multifunctional HPA controllers to prevent system damage
Mario Razo, db Control and Meppalli Shandas, db Control
Network complexities be damned: The warfighter as an IT admin?
David Kimball, SolarWinds
U.S. DoD security sought in the airwaves and in cyberspace
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor

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Case Study

Case study: Ruggedizing Cisco Ethernet switches for the military
Mike Southworth, Parvus Corporation
Case study: Dual-CPU PC/104 stack meets Marines vehicle OBC upgrade challenges
Jonathan Miller, PC/104 Embedded Consortium
Case study: Secure FPGA technology enables UAV communications and control
Jim Anderson, Xilinx
Case study: Designing for rugged thermal management to meet military needs
Dave Turner, Parvus
Case study: OpenVPX systems help deliver UAV program quickly
Anne Mascarin, Mercury Computer Systems and Greg Rocco, Mercury Computer Systems
Case study: Developing high-performance radar applications using the VSIPL++ API
Don McCoy, CodeSourcery
Case study: EFV keeps pace with Ethernet to actualize net-centric warfare
Mike Southworth, Parvus Corporation

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Hardware

If power is the problem, can GPGPU be the solution?
Peter Thompson, GE Intelligent Platforms
Streaming real-time video with CPUs/GPUs
Dr. David G. Johnson, Cambridge Pixel
COM Express enables application-specific data acquisition systems
Earle Foster, Sealevel Systems, Inc.
Eliminating the Oz factor: How to migrate from Core 2 Duo…
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Serial RapidIO with Intel-based DSP embedded systems saves slots and boosts…
Ian Stalker, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing and Devashish Paul, IDT
Power.org celebrates 20 years of advancing Power Architecture technology
Staff Editor,
Intel Architecture enables digital signal processing
Peter Thompson, GE Intelligent Platforms and Peter Carlston, Intel Corporation

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Daily Briefing

Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
9/11 then and now: Technology, a memorial, and a SECDEF visit
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor
Daily Briefing: News Snippets
Sharon Hess, Managing Editor

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Interview

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Legacy Software Migration

Legacy system migration without virtualization
Kim Rowe, RoweBots Research, Inc.
Mitigating the multicore factor
David Stewart, CriticalBlue
Migrating safety-critical software in military and aerospace systems
Tim King,
Communications framework eases legacy stovepipe system integration
Chad Trytten, Spark Integration Technologies
When code is born of old: Architectural obsolescence within the development…
Mark Pitchford, LDRA
When code is born of old: Architectural obsolescence within the development…
Mark Pitchford, LDRA
Migrating and modernizing legacy applications brings material cost savings
Ken Powell, Micro Focus North America

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