cyber
-
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 [...]
-
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 [...]
-
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) [...]
-
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 [...]
-
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 [...]
-
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) defines cybersecurity vulnerability landscape for mission-critical applications
The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a category system for software weakness and vulnerability, is now in use to provide a common vocabulary for source-code analysis tools for those developing mission-critical embedded systems. Some distinct groupings of CWE items – such as those that are associated with general coding practices – are focused on security-specific parts of [...]
-
Protecting top-secret data with NSA-approved COTS encryption
Type 1 products, certified by the National Security Agency (NSA) to cryptographically secure classified U.S. government information, use approved NSA algorithms. These controlled products are designed to NSA standards and certified by the NSA through a rigorous and often very lengthy evaluation process. In response to the ever-increasing need to protect deployed data-at-rest (DAR), the [...]
-
Is the military ready for AI to help make decisions on the battlefield?
A study found that less-than-competent users of artificial intelligence (AI) on the battlefield – presumably those who would need that AI boost most of all – are actually the least likely to be swayed by rational justifications, even with AI thought to be infallible. Think of it akin to: If you thought you knew the [...]
-
Development of the next-generation OpenVPX-based embedded system standard – A tri-service convergence of approaches: Part 1 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 1 of a 3-part article covering the SOSA [...]
-
Military aircraft avionics face new data-processing and security demands
A few trends are emerging in military aircraft avionics – including a continued push toward large touch-screen displays, as well as a migration to multicore processing, open architectures, and a new focus on improving cyber resilience. Open architecture designs are a standard requirement these days for military aircraft platforms undergoing avionics upgrades and tech refreshes [...]
Mariana Iriarte, Technology Editor
Rodger Hosking, Pentek, Inc.
Mike Hackert, NAVAIR
John McHale, Editorial Director
Paul Davis, Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions
John McHale, Editorial Director