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Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
Is your RTOS safe and secure? Vendors of real-time operating systems find themselves being pulled in two directions at once. Defense contractor customers demand lower costs while, at the same, time more security and safety certification than ever before. Linux is a point of heated discussion. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 John Keller |
Developers of Real-Time Embedded Software Take Aim at Code Complexity Safety, security, reliability, and performance dominate the discussion of real-time embedded operating systems as software developers aim for multiprocessor architectures with smaller size, lighter weight, and lower power consumption. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 J.R. Wilson |
Real-Time Software Providers Zero-in on Safety-Critical Issues Creating operating systems and kernels that are blazingly fast simply does not make the grade today, as systems integrators increasingly demand software that not only runs quickly, but also will not crash, will not damage other programs, and is secure from hackers. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 |
Product Applications Lockheed Martin tests helicopters with VMETRO recorder... Air Force tests engines with MTI... General Dynamics picks Agilent to test Mars rovers... Navy warships use Behlman power supply... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Ben Ames |
Contractors balance speed and efficiency in digital signal processing Designers of DSP technology for the military are forced to weight the importance of size, weight, speed, power, and cost. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
War in the Information Age Secure operating systems and code verification tools are the front line when it comes to protecting mission-critical and classified information on today's digital battlefield. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 Courtney E. Howard |
Empowering embedded computing Mainstream, COTS technologies combine with aerospace and defense industry innovations to deliver increased performance in compact electronics designs |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
Software Code and COTS Developers harness the latest software engineering tools to deliver reliable, mission-critical, real-time embedded software to mil-aero users. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 |
In Brief BAE Systems protects U.S. Army and Navy helicopters... Northrop Grumman to expand Mississippi UAV facility ... Thales forms alliance partnership with Wind River... Lockheed Martin delivers first Atlas Five Booster to west coast launch site... DC-DC device market continues to grow... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
LynuxWorks Provides RTOS for Shipboard Self-Defense System Engineers at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems have built the next-generation combat system on the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
iWar Technology companies devise innovations to help combat the growing threat of information warfare. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale |
U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their solution is open architecture. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 |
Product applications Curtiss-Wright controllers in Bradley Fighting Vehicle... SGI computers drive Saab flight simulator... I-Logix software runs Meteor missile... Smiths picks Seaweed for C-130 upgrade... Harris chip drives Raytheon IFF system... Navy picks VPT power converters... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 |
Product applications Boeing uses Green Hills software for unmanned combat air system... Lockheed Martin picks Curtiss-Wright to integrate radar components... Boeing picks Thales for 7E7 cockpit displays... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Information is under attack Malicious attacks on information and information systems occur at an alarming rate all over the world. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale |
Security and Certification Necessary for Mission-Critical Software Speakers at the third annual Green Hills Embedded Software Summit last month touted security and certification as necessary for software used in military applications such as the F/A-22 fighter-bomber and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Covert communique coming through loud and clear COTS suppliers in the defense industry collaborate with systems integrators to further electronic-warfare and signals-intelligence technologies. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 Courtney E. Howard |
Secure Information Storage Military and aerospace equipment designers have a wealth of options available to fill the ever-increasing need for secure data storage in the field. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Keller |
Open Systems, Reliability, and Security Are Primary Drivers in Software Development Environments The increasing size, complexity, and proliferation of software code throughout military and aerospace electronic and optoelectronic systems is driving software developers toward industry-standard products, which are often compatible with open-systems software tool interfaces. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 J.R. Wilson |
Military and Commercial Avionics Draw From the Same Technology Well The increasing imperative for the military to be able to adopt and adapt new technologies has led to a dramatic push for new, avionics-specific industry standards for power, form factors, and interfaces that will apply to military as well as commercial aviation. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 |
LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 to Control F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Panoramic Cockpit Display Avionics designers at L-3 Communications needed a safety-critical real-time operating system for a portion of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. They found their solution in the LynxOS-178 DO-178B-certifiable ARINC-653 and POSIX-conformant RTOS from LynuxWorks. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 |
Northrop Grumman Completes Integration of Third Payload Module for Advanced EHF Satellites Boeing completes mission system flight testing for U.S. AWACS Block 40/45 upgrade... LynxOS-178 powers Rockwell Collins next-generation avionics... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
Product Applications Army picks Vista board for Bradley Fighting Vehicle... F-35 Joint Strike Fighter uses Actel FPGA for engine electronics... Lockheed Martin engineers streamline design cycle with Agile PLM... Aurora patrol plane uses multicomputer from Mercury... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 Ben Ames |
Engineers Balance Speed and Heat in a Single Board Processors and switched-fabric networks are moving data at faster speeds then ever before, which is leading designers to come up with innovative approaches to channeling information flow, power management, and keeping boards cool. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
In Brief BAE systems to develop on-board generator for Humvee... Navy P-3C aircraft use data link from Lockheed Martin... Northrop Grumman tests software for Webb Space Telescope... Air Force eyes state-of-the-art jet fighter targeting pods... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 Ben Ames |
Digital receivers power a new generation of electronic warfare Military technology designers have shifted from analog to digital radar receivers to deal with decentralized threats. The change is a major improvement for size, weight, and power. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 |
Product Applications General Dynamics uses IEC displays in Stryker... Army uses intrusion software to stop hackers... Northrop Grumman uses Vektrex power interface on F-35... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 |
Enabling Technologies for Military and Aerospace Electronics Designers SenSyTech chooses Green Hills for weapons trainer... Lockheed Martin picks RGB Spectrum for F-16 trainer... Delta Air Lines selects Teradyne test system for avionics... NASA picks Verizon to test mobile router... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 |
In Brief Northrop Grumman submits bid for WATCHKEEPER Battlefield Intelligence... Aeroflex partners with TestMart... Anteon to support Army forces command modularity coordination centers... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 Courtney Howard |
Green Hills Software Introduces Secure Networking Platform Green Hills Software announced its platform for secure networking and an enhanced, 10th anniversary edition of its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008 |
Products Martek Power offers high-power, multichannel power modules... Aeroflex offers Battery Electronic Unit family of Li-Ion cell balancing products... Elmo offers board-mounted servo drive with 5 kilowatts continuous power... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004 |
Air Force Looks to the Next Generation of Avionics Networking In September, Air Force and industry leaders ran a time--critical targeting exercise at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Their goal was to reduce the sensor-to-shooter timeline by combining data from disparate sensors, air platforms, and ground stations |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
Honeywell chooses Green Hills operating system for 787 The Boeing 787 will use the Integrity-178B operating system to manage its flight control electronics, including autopilot and the fly-by-wire control surfaces. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Lockheed Martin looks to LynxOS for MEADS missile system MEADS protects maneuvering ground combat forces and provides homeland defense against tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and aircraft. |
Linux Journal April 2000 P. Mantegazza, E. Bianchi, L. Dozio, S. Papacharalambous, S. Hughes & D. Beal |
RTAI: Real-Time Application Interface An introduction to RTAI for deterministic and preemptive real-time behavior for Linux. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 |
Product applications Lockheed Martin uses Evans capacitors for Arrowhead... Actel processor drives image-recognition engine... Air Force uses Cray computer for surveillance... Anteon picks Harris to manage Army training video... Boeing orders test center from Rohde & Schwarz... General Dynamics picks Enea operating system for MUOS radio... Goodrich picks Radstone processors for F-16... Navy taps L-3 for helicopter display... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 J.R. Wilson |
The evolution of UAV avionics Success of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and development of new platforms for information, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) has led to some significant advances in small-scale avionics systems. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 |
Embedded C++ for DO-178B-Compliant Safety-Critical Operating System Green Hills Software Inc. is offering DO-178B Level A certifiable Embedded C++ (EC++) programming language for the company's safety-critical Integrity 178B real-time operating system (RTOS). |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 |
In Brief Lockheed Martin to provide missile-defense radar upgrades... Northrop Grumman to develop network-management system... KVH fiber-optic gyros to be used on remote gun turret... Army fuel-cell truck completes cross-country test... Aerospace dominates Russian trade in 2004... etc. |
InternetNews November 23, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
LynuxWorks Tackles Embedded Migration New partnership with MapuSoft allows embedded Linux OS vendor to migrate customers from proprietary software. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Edward J. Walsh |
Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 John McHale |
Green Hills Software Obtains EAL 6+ Operating System Security Certification Officials from Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif., say their Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) achieved the U.S. National Security Agency's highest level for software security. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2004 |
SenSyTech chooses Green Hills for weapons trainer They needed a secure communications path between software components in a wing-attached payload that simulates hostile radar signals and is used to train weapon-systems operators. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 |
In Brief Thales partners with Green Hills Software... U.S. Army helicopter controls UAV via TCDL wireless links... Updated Paveway II laser-guided bombs hit the target... etc. |
InternetNews February 20, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Wind River Tucks in RTLinux The purchase of RTLinux technology from Finite State Machine Labs gives Wind River real-time Linux technology beyond what is currently available in the Linux kernel. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John McHale |
Integrity flies on Eurofighter Typhoon The Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and AdaMULTI Integrated Development Environment (IDE) are being used in the development and implementation of mission-critical systems used in the latest Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 Ed Walsh |
Navy looks to technology to balance budget cuts Transformational plans for the seagoing service call for vast levels of wired and wireless networking of ships, submarines, aircraft, weapons, communications systems, RF antennas, and more, to offset planned cutbacks in new platform development. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Industry Forces Take MILS Architecture to the Edge in Public Demonstration Systems integrators and commercial-off-the-shelf vendors are combining technologies to demonstrate a secure multiple independent levels of security (MILS) software architecture that protects military and intelligence communications networks on the global information grid. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 John Keller |
Real-Time Software Provider Wind River Systems Acquired by Intel in Push to Embedded Systems Microprocessor giant Intel is acquiring the real-time software company as part of a strategy to expand into aerospace and defense embedded systems and mobile handheld devices. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John Keller |
Safety and Security Are Top Priorities for Providers of Embedded Operating Systems Now more than ever, software industry experts say, military and aerospace systems designers are looking for safety-critical embedded operating systems-and in nonmilitary applications in which safety-critical code historically has not been an issue. |