Blog Posts (older)
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A mixed bag - Defense industry gabs about U.S. Army’s plan for homogeneous FVL fleet
I recently posted a story to the Military Embedded Systems website covering the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) one-aircraft-does-it-all (mostly) concept. (See http://opsy.st/HS01gA) Thereafter, I mentioned the story on several LinkedIn groups and asked for feedback on the FVL concept, hoping for enlightenment. The comments I received were indeed insightful and reflected a wide [...]
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Can sensitive data for tactical military environments be protected in the cloud?
The benefits of cloud computing have been readily accepted in the data center and other markets, but can cloud architectures be trusted with classified military data?
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MRAPs still to be used (somewhat) despite U.S. Army’s focus on JLTV
In spite of the U.S. Army’s focus on the modernized Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicles are still expected to report for (some) duty. While most of the Army’s 20,000 MRAPs are situated in Afghanistan and not going anywhere at the moment, the Letterkenny Army Depot in PA and the Red River [...]
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U.S. Army and Northrop Grumman contract provides SCORPION deployment
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army recently penned a five-year contract for Northrop Grumman’s SCORPION and SCORPION II Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) persistent surveillance systems. Though the dollar amount of the contract is unspecified on the company’s website, undoubtedly the autonomously gathered actionable intelligence and remote persistent surveillance data will prove both viable and valuable [...]
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Raytheon, BAE, and University of Utah prepare for Navy robocopter exam
While students at the University of Utah gear down from their scholastic regimes this summer, the university’s technologists – along with Raytheon, BAE Systems, FLIR Systems, and NAWCWD – will be gearing up for an important airborne exam to benefit the Navy’s unmanned “robocopter” robotic helicopter dubbed “Fire Scout.” What brings Fire Scout to the [...]
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Top 5 stories from Design West
SAN JOSE, Calif. Last month's Design West show in San Jose, Calif., had steady traffic even on the last day and was a good show for releasing new products and networking. Our coverage of the event included blogs, stories, and tweets from the show floor. Below I've listed the top five most viewed blogs and stories from the show on our website.
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Rhetoric heats up over Small Form Factors (SFF)
The debate over Small Form Factor (SFF) design standards is escalating but also becoming entertaining with different views coming from both sides of the Atlantic on how to create SFF designs. Demand for these designs in military C4ISR systems is increasing, but system integrators don’t want to get locked into proprietary solutions. So, embedded computing companies are looking at how they can satisfy this demand as well as the need for lower Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP).
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Code analysis tool zooms like Google Earth when analyzing millions of lines of code
SAN JOSE, Calif. Engineers at GrammaTech announced a new tool this week that actually makes code analysis fun. Seriously, their new tool -- which works with their CodeSonar static analysis tool – functions much like Google Earth, but instead of zooming in on your neighbor’s house you’re zooming down to view individual lines of code in systems that contain as much as 20 million lines of code. They released it this week at the Design West conference in San Jose, Calif.
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An open standard is not an ecosystem
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. For nearly three decades, we have witnessed the evolution of the open systems COTS market as it has grown and changed. I look at that time in three phases of maturity: convergence, specialization, and more recently divergence. We need to credit the VMEbus and all those who labored over it with providing a model that demonstrated that there could be a common architecture that allowed interoperability across multiple vendors. Although far from perfect, there has been an ecosystem surrounding that architecture. There clearly was a convergence upon VMEbus across applications and even vertical segments.
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Warfighter wearable simulation system uses custom design from Connect Tech
SAN JOSE, Calif. This week at DesignWest in San Jose, Calif., Connect Tech is showcasing a wearable training solution for warfighters from Quantum3D that uses a custom small form factor design from Connect Tech. A company spokesperson is wearing the system at the show this week at booth #1538.
John McHale, Editorial Director
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John McHale, Editorial Director