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Podcast: RFSoC enabling radar/electronic warfare systems
The insatiable need for bandwidth and data from military radar and electronic warfare systems is continuing to put pressure on embedded signal processing designers to deliver innovation at the board and chip level. In this podcast, our guest, David Gamba, Aerospace and Defense Core Vertical Markets Senior Director at Xilinx discusses how FPGAs enable this [...]
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Jobs and the unmanned systems market
Many people fear the unmanned world as they fear automation will make their jobs obsolete and them unemployed. Not so, said Xponential keynote speakers Dr. David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics and Associate Head, Department of Economics, at MIT and Bryan Wynne President and CEO of AUVSI. According to Wynne, AUVSI has been forecasting for [...]
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Podcast: Speeding up DoD acquisition process, military artificial intelligence applications, DoD budget increase
The U.S. Department of Defense Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request is considerably higher than last year with more funding slated for upgrades of air, land, and sea platforms. In this podcast with Mike MacPherson, Vice President, Strategic Planning, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, he discusses the impact for the budget increase on the defense electronics industry [...]
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Podcast: Deciphering the counter-UAV market
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones are proliferating beyond the battlefield into the commercial and consumer markets. However, many see them as more a threat than a benefit. As a result a market for counter-UAV technology has spun out and is growing fast. In this podcast with Mike Blades, Research Director, North America, for Frost [...]
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Podcast: Cognitive radio, spectrum management, SDR tech development
Cognitive radio and spectrum management continue to drive innovation among military communication system designers to enable more capability and faster decision making for warfighters. Efficient spectrum management is becoming especially important as the spectrum gets more crowded and as the U.S.Department of Defense is considering naming the spectrum as another warfare domain like cyber. In [...]
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Five tips for protecting against wireless KRACK
The recent KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attacks) attack on the Wi-Fi WPA2 security protocols (CVE-2017-13077 through CVE-2017-13088) highlights the requirement to actively maintain and update embedded systems, especially long-life systems deployed in hostile environments. KRACK is interesting because it is a flaw in a mature, widely used security protocol. KRACK exploits a flaw in the four-way [...]
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Top avionics stories of 2017
The top avionics stories of the year focused on different aspects of aerospace applications with articles that reviewed the tactical advantage to the warfighter via the use of synthetic vision and how reliability and flexibility in the design process are key. The list includes some our contributors such as Abaco Systems and Adacore, both providing [...]
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Top cybersecurity stories of 2017
The top security stories of last year dealt with hardware security, communications, and software-defined networking. 2017 was the year where cybersecurity was no longer an afterthought, but part of the design process. Some of the most interesting articles stem from our contributors such as Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions and Innodisk, where they dive into some the [...]
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Top military embedded blogs & columns of 2017
Our most popular columns, blogs, and guest blogs on Mil-Embedded.co from 2017 were penned by guest bloggers from VITA, Per Vices Corp., Themis Computer, and by our editorial staff on subjects such as potential wars with the F-35, the Trump Administration, drone landings on moving targets, the counter-UAV market, and more.
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Rockwell Collins likely to get bought by United Technologies
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal online this week, United Technologies Corp. of Farmington, Connecticut, a designer of engines and other aircraft parts is close to signing a deal to acquire Rockwell Collins of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a producer of avionics for commercial and military aircraft, for an excess of $20 billion.
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