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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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Coding standards — are they necessary?
CODE QUALITY BLOG: As cyberwarfare becomes increasingly part of the norm, many, if not most, military embedded systems are safety- and/or security-critical in nature. To combat this increasing risk, it only makes sense that military systems should be constructed following some of the industry’s most rigorous software development standards to ensure their safe, secure, and functionally accurate operation. Following these standards offers a double benefit. Not only does it reduce safety and security risk, but it also reduces cost. Software development standards improve maintainability, upgradability, reusability, and testability, delivering long-term benefits especially given the typical life span of these systems.
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The emergence of software-defined radar technology
Radar technology has been undergoing a period of resurgence driven by the demand for high-powered, cost-effective, compact technology for military and commercial applications. This has also led to the re-evaluation of how technology should be used to achieve robust and economical radar solutions. Further, groundbreaking technology such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), autonomous cars, as [...]
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Using a hardware root of trust to decode software security
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – “who will guard the guardians?” – is a question as old as the Roman Empire. This question, with its underlying bearing on trust in general, is still relevant today. And it is directly applicable to computer systems.
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The drone era is upon us
From the moment an autonomous car gave Weather channel celebrity Jim Cantore a lift to the stage to start his keynote address to the xPonential audience to his introduction of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) administrator Michael Huerta, the message of the event was clear: Drones are going to be part of our daily lives sooner [...]
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