Guest blog: Navy demonstrates value of military cloud computing during recent naval exercise
In October as part of the Navy's annual Trident Warrior exercise, Dataline LLC demonstrated that a standard shipboard communications infrastructure could be used to manage a commercial cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform.
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Heat is buckling the flight decks of Navy ships; this looks like a job for the thermal management experts
Every now and then I run across things that although they have little, if anything, to do with aerospace and defense electronics, still stop me in my tracks. Here's one I tripped over this morning: did you know the hot exhaust from the ...
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Trends: another embedded software supplier snapped up by a computer hardware company
Well, it's official: microprocessor hardware maker Cavium Networks is acquiring MontaVista Software. This is the second time in a year that a hardware company is acquiring an influential embedded software company.
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COTS, COTS, COTS, COTS
Nearly everyone I speak to at defense electronics trade shows or for interviews over the phone brings up the COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) procurement term in some way. They make COTS products, use COTS practices, or think COTS is the ...
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We're not playin' around: E-networking means business, not socializing
All of us conducting business on E-networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and the others are running into a problem: a growing number of companies and other organizations are coming up with policies that ban the use of so-called ...
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DOD contracting: it's quiet out there; too quiet
There seems to be a lull in technology-related contracting at the U.S. Department of Defense over the past week. A scan of the bluetops shows days on end with just one or two awards of consequence to the aerospace and defense electronics ...
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OpenVPX interoperability standard hands off to VITA in another step toward ratification
Well I'll be jiggered! They did what they said they were going to do, when they said they were going to do it.
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Editor at large
Wow, upon writing the headline, a flood of fat jokes popped into my head, but I will fight the impulse (which is also a good dieting tactic). It just goes to show you: I should never write a blog on a Friday night. I had an incredible ...
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DVT: Not just in M-ATVs
An editor at Military & Aerospace Electronics for a few years now, I have covered a wealth of topics and I have a few favorite "beats." Among them are vetronics, or electronic systems and devices employed in and on combat vehicles on land.
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It's official: Nobel Peace Prize now has no value whatsoever
We have American soldiers dying in Afghanistan, bereft of top leadership as President Barack Obama dithers day after day. We have Iran speeding toward developing nuclear weapons as Obama sits on his hands. We have terrorists apprehended ...
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The #milaero online community and the stream of Twitterness -- it's all about you
Did you know there's a Military & Aerospace Electronics online community on Twitter? Neither did I until yesterday. It's happening, organically, every day, through a nifty, yet powerful, Twitter tool called the hashtag.
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Russian T-95 main battle tank: could this combat vehicle be more formidable than we thought?
I wrote about a new Russian main battle tank (MBT) more than a year ago, the T-95, in a blog headlined "New Russian battle tank: it's beginning to look a lot like the '80s." In this blog I wrote of a chilling sense I had about what felt ...
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Can commercial software-defined radio communications replace JTRS? One reader points out why not
I wrote a story earlier this month, Air Force plan to cut its JTRS military radio program may acknowledge developments in private industry, in which I suggest that commercial developments in software defined radio (SDR) technology may ...
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Test and measurement systems designers leave rugged computers to the experts
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- There seems to be a trend in portable electronic test and measurement equipment that involves commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rugged laptop and notebook computers. Seems the test and measurement folks want to ...
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Remembering the lessons of 9/11
Today is September 11, 2009. It was eight years ago this morning -- in about 25 more minutes as I write this -- that we as a nation gathered, horrified, around television sets to watch as one of the World Trade Center towers burned in New York City.
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Attendees at London defense show have positive attitude
Moving through the multiple security check points and walking the floors at the Defense Systems and Equipment International Exhibition -- DSEi 2009 -- in London I found the mood of the attendees quite positive.
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Kudos to Kamen, kids, and contractors
My hat is off to Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway PT, and mil-aero industry players Rockwell Collins and General Dynamics. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, an organization founded to inspire young people's interest ...
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Business lessons from an MIT professor
Last week during a visit to SynQor in Boxborough, Mass., I received a lesson on cost-of-ownership by the company founder, who is also a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor. SynQor makes high reliability power electronics ...
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GE and Fanuc call it quits
As of yesterday GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is now called GE Intelligent Platforms after GE and Fanuc reached an agreement to no longer continue their original agreement.
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Unmanned systems show was buzzing
What a difference a year makes. Last year's Unmanned Systems North America show in San Diego was informative and well attended but seemed to be reflecting some of that Southern California June gloom. This year it was just the opposite ...
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End of Altivec PowerPC digital signal processing chip spells headache for Serial RapidIO designers
The next-generation PowerPC family from Freescale, the QorIQ, has a new CPU core -- the e500 -- which does not support the Altivec engine that commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) single-board computer suppliers rely on for many of their military ...
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F-22 program shot down
President Obama's first major defense budget cut got past a major hurdle last month when both houses of Congress agreed last week to cut F-22 funding from a new bill, despite speculation that they might fight to keep the program alive to save jobs.
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