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08.15.2023

Land Mobile Radio systems are terrestrially-based professional push to talk wireless communications systems commonly used for critical communications

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Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software-Defined-Radio (SDR) products have been traditionally used for Military RADAR and communication applications because of their high performance, and design flexibility. 

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Today’s modern defense systems exploit massive volumes of data to provide warfighters

with more accurate, complete intel.

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Understanding the terminology and requirements related to the "holdup" time parameter can be valuable for system designers in the airborne industry.


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Microelectronics and semiconductors power our modern defense platforms, providing our armed services with an advantage across all domains.

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The challenge with collecting large amounts of data at the tactical edge is that it is often transferred to off-site servers for processing and analysis and then archived on mixed media at different sites.

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As we know, no electronic product or anything else for that matter, performs as described in introductory electronics textbooks in which all designs have ideal components. 

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Over the past decade, smart devices have impacted nearly every aspect of our day-to-day lives. But for the U.S. armed forces, this technology represents more than the power to use your phone to unlock a deadbolt or track a shipment

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Interoperability is an important concept when looking to gain an advantage in executing compute processes through the hardware that is being used to build embedded systems.  

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Ever since the field of “Electromagnetic Compatibility” (EMC) became mainstream, its principles and methods are applied in order to ensure that electric and electronic equipment is performing as intended in its environment and is safe to use.

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Silicon Designs, Inc., today announced the global market launch of its Model 2290 Series, a family of high-precision, single axis MEMS DC calibration reference accelerometers. 

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Learn how LXI protects your data acquisition investment in our latest white paper: "LXI: The Solution for Data Acquisition."

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Defense contractors like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Honeywell, and L3, and their suppliers have found ESPEC's Qualmark technology to be an essential and cost-effective addition to their reliability programs.

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Airborne pods are compact external electro-mechanical platforms that are attached to nearly any aircraft type yet operate independently. They hold intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) systems that collect sensor data across long-range airborne missions, turning normal aircraft into warfighters. 

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Due to upgrades of various sensors, in different locations of the helicopter, there was a need to relay fast communication between the pilot and the co-pilot/gunner.
The customer was looking for a very small 1G LAN rugged switch with management capabilities.
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Military solutions for signal analysis must address all of these factors within the context of given applications. Taking GPGPUs as the most efficient solution available today for signal analysis, both in terms of raw performance and power dynamics, we will now examine several promising areas for military GPGPU adoption including: Radar and Sonar Processing.
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Learn how Sealevel Systems COM solutions enables the use of an off-the-shelf computer module with a custom, application-specific carrier board, or boards, to fulfill the I/O requirements to allows for a faster time to market, is cost-effective and offers scalability for future upgrades.
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Elma has served the defense industry needs for years and is a key participant in open standards organizations such as VITA and SOSA™. Learn more about Signal Integrity in High-density Backplanes through this article. 
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AI processing capability remote from the data center is required for smarter and more autonomous aerospace and defense missions. See how Mercury Systems and Intel are working together to make edge processing resilient enabling AI everywhere.
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MILPDU™ intelligent military power management solutions feature the latest technology, offering extensive user configuration capabilities to achieve a custom power management solution for specific application needs. 
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