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Executive Outlook
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In this Q&A with Troy Brunk, Vice President and General Manager of Airborne Solutions for Rockwell Collins Government Systems, he discusses his outlook for military avionics technology, what pilots want avionics technology to do for them, and the situational awareness benefits of synthetic vision. | |
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DARPA announced that it's Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment (CODE) program is holding discussions to enable development of software that will enable unmanned aircraft to work together with minimal supervision. | |
General Dynamics UK awarded GE Intelligent Platforms with $100 million in orders for open architecture, embedded computing subsystems for use onboard the British army’s SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) platforms. | |
Engineers at Rockwell Collins have designed a GPS receiver that can plug and play with commercial and military mobile devices. | |
Officials at Wind River released updates to it's VxWorks 653, which has support for multi-core silicon and partitioning for DO-178 certification. | |
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Blogs & Columns |
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Historically, unmanned ISR platforms, but this process has created limitations on interoperability and increased costs, leading the DoD to look at other, more viable options, including commercially supported open source middleware. | |
Discussing fifth generation warfare (5GW) makes me think of this quote from the Bible: "I beheld, and lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled."--Jeremiah 4:25. This defines 5GW, non-contact warfare in the present context. | |
Most of us think that adding bandwidth availability or link redundancy would include costly equipment investment or link upgrades, but with link aggregation, that’s just not the case. | |
Although Agile development is being adopted by most software development organizations, most embedded developers resist Agile methodologies. | |
Counterfeit mitigation, reliability of COTS ICs, supply chain challenges, are some of the topics in the lineup for the Components for Military & Space Electronics (CMSE conference. | |
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This month we discuss the effect of sequestration has had on the defense electronics community. | |
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Markets & Business Deals |
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Raytheon purchased UAS solution provider Sensintel, Inc., which will become part of Raytheon Company's Missile Systems business. | |
Michael Carter CEO and owner of Navy Tactical Data System (NTDS) designer Sabtech, changed the company's name to IXI Technology | |
Analysts at ASD Reports say the global military simulation market should show moderate to strong growth through 2024. | |
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