Editor's Choice Products:35 W DC/DC converters bring on the rugged XP Power: MTC35 Series  Power is an uber-popular watercooler topic at any company engineering military electronic applications or systems, being a critical consideration in defense designs. Accordingly, XP Power has incarnated its MTC35 COTS DC/DC converters, specially designed to ease the power and rugged woes t... Simultaneous UAV video streaming maximized GE Intelligent Platforms, Inc.: GFG500  As UAVs rapidly gain traction as a viable means of intelligence gathering and transmission, being able to capture and process multiple video sources simultaneously is imperative. Thus, GE Intelligent Platforms’ GFG500 3U OpenVPX-REDI GbE video processor caught our eye. Designed for t...Server helps apps travel through the rough spots Crystal Group, Inc.: SS16 Sealed Server  The fact is that military airborne, land-based, and shipboard applications are housed in systems traversing harsh environments that are just not for the faint of heart. And Crystal Group Inc.’s SS16 Sealed Server can surely withstand the heat (and other extremes) of such environments...ARM inside SWaP-C savvy flight control computer Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions: VFCC  Well known for sitting inside smartphones, GPS, and many other mobile devices, the ARM processor has found a home inside Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems’ Versatile Flight Control Computer (VFCC). Not only is the inclusion of the ARM processor intriguing, but we also have t...Cisco’s industrial Ethernet switch goes mil rugged Parvus Corporation: DuraNET 3000  Cisco Systems routers and switches certainly provide value in many industrial or benign computing scenarios. And while Cisco’s IE-3000 Ethernet switch was viable in the applications for which it was originally crafted – like the utility substation or factory floor – it ne...Chassis Monitoring Board keeps an eye on the system Kontron: Chassis Monitoring Board (CMB)  What good is it to be on a ship if the entire ship is sinking, figuratively speaking? The same idea applies to VME and VPX systems managed and monitored exclusively by system-implemented firmware and chipsets: Odds are such a system management scheme won’t continue working if the sys...DSP software eliminates signal-analysis headaches NEXTXEN: NEXTWave SPL  Digital Signal Processing is as integral to the military embedded scene as butter is to bread. However, applying DSP data analysis is a bit more challenging. That’s why NEXTXEN’s NEXTWave SPL software caught our eye. Its mission: To proffer data analysis and signal processing v...Rugged, compact computer meets the multi-mission challenge General Micro Systems, Inc.: Armor (S822-D)  Attention, military designers: It just might be time to scrap your plans to swap in a display and bussed ATR when that critical system goes “kerplunk.” Now there’s a viable alternative: The smaller, sleeker, more flexible S822-D Armor computer system by General Micro Syst...Simulation and training platform preps soldiers Quantum3D: ExpeditionDI  Since simulation and training are supposed to be realistic, how realistic is it for soldiers to have to learn commands and actions specific to operating the simulation device – actions that would never be used in combat? Quantum3D’s CG2 subsidiary is thwarting this potential ch...Tin/lead conversion thwarts tin whiskers AEM, Inc.: Tin/lead conversion process  Whether we’re talking the International Space Station, a C-17, or a Humvee, tin whiskers can throw a monkey wrench into system functionality – and even result in loss of life. However, AEM, Inc.’s tin/lead conversion process aims to stop tin whiskers in high-rel, surface-...PrivateEye could protect U.S. DoD privacy Oculis Labs: PrivateEye security software  Could U.S. DoD workers using laptops outside (or even inside) the office use a PrivateEye? We think so – if that PrivateEye is the security software incarnated by Oculis Labs, anyway. Able to find its home on Panasonic Solutions Company’s rugged MIL-STD-810G-compliant Toughbook...Nighttime is the right time for this IR night-vision spotlight Larson Electronics LLC Magnalight: RL-85-10W1-IR  It would be so convenient if military adversaries only struck when the sun was up … OK, dream on. But for those times when warfighters need to identify details of faces or must observe information pertaining to buildings, targets, or tactical surveys after the sun’s gone down,...Software helps UAS operators avoid the big jolt AME Unmanned Air Systems: SharkFin Basic  Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) mission operators might have to slog through hundreds of hours of “nothing special” Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) video. But to avoid the sudden jar-to-life of the “What now?” panic when a noteworthy event does occ...Computers remain useful, even in direct sunlight Dontech, Inc.: Day Vu Series displays  Everyone has experienced the frustration: It’s a perfectly good computer, tablet, or smartphone, but try to read it in direct sunlight and it’s pretty much rendered a useless piece of sophisticated silicon. However, Dontech, Inc. aims to thwart this issue for the warfighter awa...Software tool suite achieves Homeland Security compatibility LDRA: LDRA tool suite (CWE Compatible)  In this age of Internet-connected everything, software becomes increasingly vulnerable to security breaches. However, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Division and the nonprofit MITRE Corporation have created and manage the Common Weakness Enumeratio... |
