Editor's Choice Products:Flight, mission, and radio management in one box Esterline Communication Systems: CMA-4000  The CMA-4000 Flight and Displays Management System, developed by engineers at Esterline CMC Electronics in Montreal, leverages an open architecture design to include radio control management, mission management, and flight management functions in one 11 lb box. The CMC Electronics box can... Secure data transfer for military flight applications Physical Optics Corp. (POC) : Data Transfer System (DTS)  Engineers at Physical Optics Corp. (POC) in Torrance, CA, developed an in-flight data loading device/digital recorder, dubbed the Data Transfer System (DTS) with secure cryptographic features. It is an NSA-defined Suite B and FIPS 140-2-approved cryptographic solution that also supports NS...MEMS-based navigation device for unmanned systems Sparton: AHRS-8  The AHRS-8 navigation sensor from Sparton Corp. in De Leon Springs, FL, is small enough to fit into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) payloads and to provide stability and navigation capability in environments with high levels of electromagnetic noise. It offers 3D magnetic field measurement a...Military systems controlled by game-style unit Ultra Measurement Systems, Inc.: Freedom of Movement Control Unit (FMCU)  Engineers at Ultra Measurement Systems, Inc., in Wallingford, CT, have designed a rugged controller with a game-style form factor familiar to today’s warfighters. The patented handheld Freedom of Movement Control Unit (FMCU) has been used by the Army and Marine Corps, Ground Based Op...RF connectors and VITA 67 TE Connectivity: Multiposition RF connector modules  New RF connector modules from TE Connectivity in Harrisburg, PA, are designed for rugged embedded computing applications that leverage the OpenVPX architecture. The Multiposition RF connector modules were developed to meet VITA 67.0, 67.1, and 67.2 standards that define the RF connector mo...Signal acquisition cards for SDR, radar pulse applications Red Rapids: Signal Stream  Designers at Red Rapids in Richardson, TX, developed a product family called Signal Stream for general-purpose signal acquisition and generation for military applications such as Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and radar pulse receivers/transmitters as well as applications in the medical and...Secure military communications in 4 GHz spectrum Cambium Networks: PTP 45600 and PTP 48600  Now that the U.S. military, civilian agencies, and NATO countries have exclusive rights to the 4 GHz spectrum for mobile and fixed communications, they need solutions in this range that can operate securely in harsh environments. Engineers at Cambium Networks in Rolling Meadows, IL are mee...Three rugged displays in one chassis for extreme environments Chassis Plans: TFX  Looking to meet needs for larger screen space in a reduced rack-mount form factor, Chassis Plans designers in San Diego created the TFX-9 trifold rack-mount LCD monitor that provides enhanced situational awareness via its three screens. The rugged monitor comes in a 2U form factor with wid...ISR video enabled by rugged encoder Haivision: Makito Air  Engineers at Haivision in Lake Forest, IL have leveraged their commercial video encoding technology into a rugged chassis called the Makito Air for airborne and mobile Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications. Makito Air enables encoding of video and metadata trans...Digital table tracks sensor data for battlefield commanders 901D: Mapping and Navigation Table  The touch-screen and easy-to-use interfaces of digital tablets enhance situational awareness, improve communication, and enable more efficient decision making for those on the move. However, for warfighters on station, having that same functionality in a larger form factor such as a table...VICTORY-compliant rugged switch enables vetronics networks Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions: Digital Beachhead  Combining a 16-port GbE network switch with a high-performance vehicle management computer, the rugged Digital Beachhead vehicle networking system from Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions enables users to quickly introduce VICTORY-compliant network hardware into military ground vehic...Coprocessor solution improves FPGA efficiency BittWare, Inc.: Anemone and S5-6U-VPX (S56X)  Dubbed “Anemone acceleration technology,” a coprocessor floating-point signal processing solution from BittWare in Concord, NH, mitigates FPGA programming challenges by offloading C-language processing tasks from an FPGA. The FPGA handles all the I/O interfacing, memory, protoc...New SFF device proves multivendor OpenVPX interoperability Elma Electronic: SigPro 1  OpenVPX has promised that the “Open” part meant that VPX systems from different suppliers could be interoperable and work in one system – preventing integrators from being tied to one vendor. The new SigPro 1 Small Form Factor (SFF) acquisition system that combines OpenVP...NIST-certified, rugged SSD provides AES encryption and durability Microsemi: TRRUST-Stor  With national and technological security as vital concerns, Microsemi’s NIST-certified TRRUST-Stor SSD aims to help government and military officials rest (at least a little bit) easier. Having recently achieved National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) certification for...VPX SBC building block hastens time-to-market for C4ISR apps Parvus Corporation: CPU-111-10  Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) is a hot focus in mil tech these days, and so is fast time-to-deployment. The good news is that Parvus’ CPU-111-10 6U VPX SBC can act as a ready building block in C4ISR applications, h... |
