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Web Exclusive Articles Online News | Industry News Flash | Executive Watch | Exclusive Content | Mil & Aero Blog | Archives Home Mil & Aero Blog 2009 P1 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. 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 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft is buckling the flight decks of the Navy's big-deck amphibious assault ships? 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. 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 worst thing in the world. 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 "social networking" while at work. While it's difficult to characterize the depth of this mistake, we have ourselves at least partially to blame. 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 community. Makes me a little nervous. 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. 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 week, traveling about Oregon visiting with knowledgeable, charismatic, and passionate executives at technology firms serving military and aerospace customers. Here's where I went, who I saw, and what I learned (in a nutshell anyway)... 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. 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 in war zones basking on Caribbean beaches instead of in cells in Guantanamo Bay. PAGE: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |

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