cyber
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The big data battlefield
Market-intelligence firm IDC predicts that the sum of the world’s collective data, estimated at 33 zettabytes currently, will eclipse 175 zettabytes by 2025. That’s equivalent to forty billion pounds of common one-terabyte storage disks. Intelligence and military applications rely on massive data pipelines to drive intelligence gathering and mission-critical decision-making. The speed at which the [...]
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Cyberwarfare: Battlefield precursor for kinetic attacks?
The cyber domain is playing a more visible role in offensive military operations, but serious vulnerabilities exist within weapons systems that must be addressed today to avoid being rendered useless via cyberattacks during future battles. Cyberwarfare is an intriguing way to prepare battlefields for kinetic attacks; we recently got a glimpse of this when Iran shot [...]
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Fitting AI under the SWaP umbrella
Reduced size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements are also impacting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) designs. “Translating the commercial and consumer AI accelerator hardware technologies into the deployable, rugged, size, weight, and power (SWaP)-constrained systems mil/aero platforms often need” is a challenge, says David Tetley, principal software engineer, Abaco Systems (Huntsville, Alabama). Reduced [...]
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The case for containerization at the tactical edge
At the tactical edge – let’s define it as the platforms, sites, and personnel operating at lethal risk in a battlespace or crisis environment – one frequent challenge is how to create or host a service/application that can make the difference between life and death for the warfighter. Applications that deliver situational awareness or critical [...]
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Explainable intelligence is on the way for neural networks
Neural networks are on the path toward explainable intelligence, which may help speed the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is prioritizing the fielding of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to help augment the capabilities of warfighters by offloading tedious cognitive or physical tasks [...]
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Military UAVs tackle performance issues under SWaP-driven designs
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking high-performing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) designed to meet stringent size, weight, and power (SWaP) constraints. One solution is to pack the vehicles with components. The problem? The lower the SWaP and the smaller the UAV gets, the more performance suffers. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designs are increasing [...]
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Wideband signal and data recorders harness new technologies
Wideband recorders draw upon diverse disciplines of new technology to keep pace with the explosion of the number of information traffic channels and increased bandwidth. Fortunately, many of these technologies are driven by large worldwide market forces, which feed off our planet’s insatiable need for connectivity and storage. With no perceivable upper limit to speed [...]
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Small businesses reshaping future Army tech
The U.S. Army is aggressively seeking next-generation technologies by reaching out to the heart of the American economy: Small businesses. To that end, officials kicked off the second Expeditionary Technology Search 2.0 (XTechSearch 2.0) at the beginning of 2019; the program aims to be a catalyst in changing the way the Department of Defense (DoD) [...]
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Development of the next-generation OpenVPX-based embedded system standard – A tri-service convergence of approaches: Part 2 of 3
Something exciting is happening in the service representative community. Representatives from three different programs, one from each of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) services, have come together with a common objective to solve their respective acquisition problems with an agreed-upon, open architecture standard. Here is Part 2 of a 3-part article covering the SOSA [Sensor Open [...]
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Procurement, modernization highlights from DoD FY 2020 budget request
WASHINGTON. Funding requested for Department of Defense (DoD) Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 totals $89.3 billion, accounting for about 34 percent of the Trump administration’s Procurement and Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding request for the Department of Defense (DoD) of $247.3 billion. Included below are updates on programs [...]
Richard Whaley, Mercury Systems
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
Rodger Hosking, Pentek, Inc.
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