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COTS (kots), n. 1. Commercial off-the-shelf.

Terminology popularized in 1994 within U.S. DoD by SECDEF Wm. Perry’s “Perry Memo” that changed military industry purchasing and design guidelines, making Mil-Specs acceptable only by waiver. COTS is generally defined for technology, goods and services as: a) using commercial business practices and specifications, b) not developed under government funding, c) offered for sale to the general market, d) still must meet the program ORD. 2. Commercial business practices include the accepted practice of customer-paid minor modification to standard COTS products to meet the customer’s unique requirements.

—Ant. When applied to the procurement of electronics for he U.S. Military, COTS is a procurement philosophy and does not imply commercial, office environment or any other durability grade. E.g., rad-hard components designed and offered for sale to the general market are COTS if they were developed by the company and not under government funding.

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FEATURED p.10 Solutions Emerge to Tackle Many Facets of Embedded Security SPECIAL FEATURE Security and Trusted System Issues 10

Solutions Emerge to Tackle Many Facets of Embedded Security

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Readiness is Focus of Amended DoD Appropriations Request Jeff Child

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F-35’s Software Stakes

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Marching to the Numbers

Compact Rugged GPGPU System Serves up Real-Time Image Processing

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT DoD Budget Report: Major Weapons Programs 20

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Coming in June See Page 41 On The Cover: Reserve component Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operational Support Unit (EODOSU) 7 use a Man Transportable Robot System “Talon” Mark 2 to approach a suspected bomb maker’s building during a mobility exercise at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. (U.S. Navy photo by MSCS 2nd Class Joshua Scott).

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F-35’s Software Stakes

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s the nation’s most expensive defense program in history, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has racked up some pretty big numbers, and is expected to continue to do so. Its acquisitions costs alone are estimated at nearly $400 billion, and beginning in 2022, the DoD expects to spend more than $14 billion a year on average for a decade. The delays experienced by the program add to the costs. The GAO analyzed the situation in a recent report—its second report in response to FY 2015’s National Defense Authorization Act mandate to review the F-35 acquisition program annually until the program reaches full-rate production.

One thing that caught my eye about the GAO report was that many of the delay issues for the F-35 revolve around embedded software and embedded system topics—the kind of technology I’ve been covering as a journalist for many years. The report estimates that cascading F-35 testing delays could cost the DoD over a billion dollars more than currently budgeted to complete development of the F-35 baseline program. Problems with the mission systems software, known as Block 3F, program were cited as key factor. Program officials predict the program will need an additional 5 months to complete developmental testing and but the GAO has a less optimistic view.

GAO’s analysis—based on historical F-35 flight test data— indicates that developmental testing could take an additional 12 months.

And such delays then in turn delays other phases of the process—for example they affect the start of the F-35’s initial operational test and evaluation, postpone the Navy’s initial operational capability, and then in turn delay the program’s full rate production decision which is at present is slated for 2019.

In contrast to the GAO’s 12-month estimate, F-35 program officials predict a delay of 5 months and that the delay will contribute to a total increase of $532 million to complete development. The longer delay estimated by GAO will likely contribute to an increase of more than $1.7 billion, approximately $1.3 billion of which will be needed in fiscal year 2018. Meanwhile, program officials project the program will need over $1.2 billion in fiscal year 2018 to start two efforts. First, DoD expects it will need over $600 million for follow-on modernization (known as Block 4). F-35 program officials plan to release a request for Block 4 development proposals nearly 1 year before GAO estimates that Block 3F—the last block of software for the F-35 baseline program—developmental testing will be completed.

According to both DoD policy and GAO best practices requirements need to be approved and a sound business case formed before requesting development proposals from contractors. Problem is un-

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til Block 3F testing is complete, the DoD won’t have the knowledge it needs to present a sound business case for Block 4. The program may ask Congress for more than $650 million in fiscal year 2018 to procure economic order quantities—bulk quantities. But of January 2017 the details of this plan were unclear because DOD’s 2018 budget was not final and negotiations with the contractors were ongoing.

The recent GAO report recommended that DoD use historical data to reassess the cost of completing development of Block 3F and to complete Block 3F testing before soliciting contractor proposals for Block 4 development. This means identifying for Congress the cost and benefits associated with procuring economic order quantities of parts. In response to the report, the DoD did not concur with the first two recommendations and partially concurred with the third while outlining actions to address it.

At the heart of the differences between the GAO’s and the DoD’s analyses is how they’re measuring testing times. For its part, the program’s projection is optimistic as it does not reflect historical F-35 test data. DoD program officials argue that going forward they may be able to devote more resources to mission systems testing, which could lead to higher test point completion rates than they have achieved in the past. As of November 2016, program officials estimated that the program will need to complete as much as an average of 384 mission systems test points per month to finish flight testing by October 2017. The rate has rarely achieved before by the F-35. In contrast, the GAO’s analysis of historical test point data as of December 2016 revealed that the testing rate is more realistically 220 mission systems test points per month.

Both organizations of course have valid points of view. But for me the situation highlights how the advancement of sophisticated software test tools really matter a great deal. Billions can be saved investing in such tools and in the defense industry the ramifications are huge when program delays rack up costs. This is all another example where our embedded computing industry can and is making a difference.

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INSIDE TRACK Raytheon Awarded Contract for 3D Long Range Radar The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded Raytheon Company a $52.6 million contract for the three-dimensional expeditionary long-range radar system. The 3DELRR system will replace the aging AN/TPS-75, or Tipsy 75, as the principal Air Force ground-based sensor for long range surveillance, detection and tracking of aerial targets in support of theater commanders. The 3DELRR will enhance battlespace awareness through detection and reporting of highly maneuverable, small radar cross section targets (Figure 1). Moreover, it will provide air controllers with a precise, real-time picture of sufficient quality to conduct control of individual aircraft under many operational conditions.

Full replacement of the AN/TPS-75

systems is expected by 2029. The contract award covers the engineering and manufacturing development of three production representative units, but allows the ability to exercise options for low-rate production, interim contractor support, and full rate production when appropriate. In addition to improving battle space awareness, 3DELRR is designed to be readily transportable, decreasing the time between a combatant commander’s request for persistent, ground-based command and control, and when it can be delivered.

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F-15 EPAWSS Program Completes Critical Design Review In February, Boeing completed a successful Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Eagle Passive/Active Warning Survivability System (EPAWSS). This review follows BAE Systems’ CDR of the system’s electronic warfare (EW) suite that was completed at the end of 2016 in Nashua, New Hampshire. According to BAE Systems, the EPAWSS Critical Design Review is an important step toward providing our F-15 air crew with a world class defensive and jamming system that will bring them home safely.

The goal of the EPAWSS program is to update the Air Force’s fleet of F-15 fighter aircraft with advanced EW technology in order to maximize mission effectiveness and survivability against current and emerging threats (Figure 2).

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Figure 1 The 3DELRR enhances battlespace awareness through detection and reporting of highly maneuverable, small radar cross section targets.

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Figure 2 The EPAWSS program updates the Air Force’s fleet of F-15 fighter aircraft with advanced EW technology.

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LCR Embedded Systems has been chosen by Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) located in Point Mugu, CA the supplier for its new 3U VPX Solution in support of the Joint Electronic Advanced Technology (JEAT) program. LCR will be supplying engineering and manufacturing services to deliver a custom, rugged, qualified VPX-based embedded system that allows the latest high-speed technologies to withstand harsh environments in support of electronic warfare advancements.

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MQ-8C Fire Scout Completes Successful 1st Flight from LCS Northrop Grumman’s autonomous helicopter, MQ-8C Fire Scout, took off for the first time from a U.S. Navy independenceclass Littoral Combat ship, USS Montgomery (LCS-8) (Figure 3).

The flight took place off the coast of California during the second phase of Dynamic Interface testing,

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INSIDE TRACK Curtiss-Wright to Provide Cockpit Recorder System for CH-146 Helicopter

Figure 3 Northrop Grumman ’s autonomous helicopter, MQ-8C Fire Scout, took off for the first time from a U.S. Navy independence-class Littoral Combat ship, USS Montgomery (LCS-8). once again demonstrating Fire Scout’s stability and safety while operating around the ship. The two week at-sea event allowed the U.S. Navy to test the MQ-8C Fire Scout’s airworthiness and ability to land and take off from a littoral combat ship throughout a broad operational envelope.

With the completion of Dynamic Interface testing, the MQ-8C Fire Scout is one step closer to Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) and full operational deployment. The MQ-8C Fire Scout builds on the ongoing accomplishments of the MQ-8B Fire Scout program. Helicopter Squadron 23 is currently operating onboard the deployed littoral combat ship, USS Coronado (LCS 4), with two MQ-8B Fire Scouts in the South China Sea. Northrop Grumman Los Angeles, CA (310) 553-6262 www.northropgrumman.com

Dynetics Gets Contract for Navy’s Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems (CEIS) Dynetics has been awarded a contract for the Combat Environ-

ment Instrumentation Systems (CEIS) by the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). Dynetics was named with five other companies under a Multiple Award Contract to compete and propose on subsequent orders for NAWCWD. The orders are for the research, development, delivery, sustainment, and upgrade of instrumentation for the service branch.

The indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract covers several CEIS equipment such as electronic attack/active emitter pods, electro-optical tracking platforms, countermeasure systems, unmanned aerial vehicle instrumentation tools, GPS-based time-space-position-data instrumentation and multispectral target systems that DoD and allies use at test and training ranges. The contract expands Dynetics footprint in California. The company will be expanding and relocating to a larger office in Ridgecrest, Calif. in the summer of 2017 to support the CEIS contract.

Dynetics Huntsville, AL (256) 964-4000 www.dynetics.com

Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions has announced that it was selected by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited to provide its cockpit voice and flight recorder technology to upgrade the cockpit electronics in the Canadian Armed Forces’ fleet of Bell CH-146 Griffon multi-role utility helicopters. Under the agreement, Curtiss-Wright will provide Bell Helicopter Textron Canada with a cockpit voice and flight recorder subsystem, comprising its Fortress 757 Flight Recorder and a Cockpit Area Microphone.

The initial contract, which began in mid-2016, runs through to mid2018 and is valued at $1.88 million.

Shipments begin in May 2017.

The CH-146, a variant of the Bell 412EP Huey family of rotorcraft, is designed by Bell Helicopter Textron for the Canadian Armed Forces (Figure 4). The Fortress 757 provides the CH-146 with an updated flight recorder platform ready to meet current regulations.

It also supports future expansion to support an optional Health and Usage Monitoring System. CurtissWright will manufacture the products covered by this agreement at its facility in Christchurch, Dorset, UK. The products will be shipped to Bell Helicopter Textron Canada, Mirabel, Quebec, Canada.

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions Ashburn, VA (703) 779-7800 www.curtisswrightds.com

Figure 4 The CH-146, a variant of the Bell 412EP Huey family of rotorcraft, is designed

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SPECIAL FEATURE Security and Trusted System Issues

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Solutions Emerge to Tackle Many Facets of Embedded Security As the awareness and urgency surrounding security increases, technology suppliers are responding with solutions to address complex secure system design challenges.

Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief

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rack open today’s top embedded system security issues for defense, and you’ll see a wide range of challenges and corresponding solutions. For military system developers, there’s perhaps no richer topic these days than that of developing secure systems. The problems are multi-faceted: How do you prevent intrusions by hackers?

How to best encrypt that data once an intruder gets in? How do you ensured the components themselves haven’ been tampered with—or will be tampered with? Over the past 12 months, a myriad of technologies have been implemented at the chip, board and box level designed to help system developers build secure applications.

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Secure Data Storage Perhaps some of the most dynamic innovations in security recently have been on the embedded data storage side. Not long ago, defense system developers using defense-grade solid-state drives (SSD) focused on the tangible attributes you can express as a datasheet spec - media endurance, wearleveling, error correction, and power loss protection features. System developers had had little to no familiarity with the concept of security as it relates to SSDs. But today practically all storage devices incorporate some level of security. All that said, every application has its own set of applicationspecific requirements where a simple offthe-shelf security solution cannot address every vulnerability.

“Over the next 5 to 10 years, we expect third-party validation programs, like Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 and Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC), to become mandatory,” said Bob Lazaravich, Technical Director at Mercury Systems, “We also anticipate the replacement of AES-256 encryption with either new algorithms or larger keys to address growing concerns about vulnerabilities from quantum computing.” Lazaravich also said he expects that new defense-grade storage products will incorporate stronger physical security. That includes security to the drive itself and security integrated through the device’s supply chain and manufacturing location.

At one time protection for data stored in modern encrypted and unpowered SSDs was a major concern. But those days are past. SDDs implemented in compliance with an appropriate National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) protection profile, unpowered SSDs are considered unclassified.

Powered-on and authenticated devices still present significant security challenges. For instance, after a password authentication completes, how does a secure SSD determine that the authenticated user is still present?

Quick Changing NAND Flash Technology plays a role too. The rapid pace of change in NAND flash media, such as the transition from 2D to 3D NAND flash, requires corresponding changes in the SSD controller architecture. That means a security architect designing a new storage device

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Figure 1 ASURRE-Stor self-encrypting SSDs are designed for use in a 2-layer CSfC solution for data at rest protection of classified, secret, and top secret data.

It employs algorithms validated to FIPS 140-2 standards.

must always be thinking ahead at least one generation. They must consider how advances in Moore’s Law or other disruptive semiconductor technologies affect their security implementation.

Exemplifying those SSD trends, Mercury recently announced its ASURRE-Stor portfolio of self-encrypting SSDs for classified programs. Designed and manufactured in a secure domestic facility, this product has the distinction of being the first commercial SSD eligible for use in a 2-layer CSfC solution for data at rest protection of classified, secret, and top secret data. The unit integrates state-of-the-art NAND flash combined with Mercury’s ARMOR controller (Figure 1). It employs a suite of cryptographic and performance-enhancing algorithms validated to FIPS 140-2 standards.

Meanwhile, Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions has likewise implemented CSfC technology but at the Networked Attached Storage (NAS) level. In January, the company announced support for CSfC 2-Layer Encryption on its Data Transport System (DTS1), a rugged single-slot Network Attached Storage (NAS) storage device. The small form factor SWaP-optimized DTS1 is designed to store and protect large amounts of data on military platforms that require the protection of sensitive DAR. The singleslot NAS device, which weighs only 4.0 lb. and measures only 1.5 x 5.0 x 6.5-inches and delivers up to 2 Terabytes of SSD storage.

The DTS1 supports PXE protocol so that all network clients on a vehicle or aircraft can quickly boot from the encrypted files on the

DTS1’s removable memory cartridge (RMC).

The DTS1 houses one RMC that provides quick off load of data. The RMC, which can store from 128 Gbytes to 2 Terabytes of data, can be easily removed from one base station DTS1 and installed into any other vehicle-mounted DTS1, providing seamless full data transfer between one or more networks in separate locations while Suite B encryption protects the data. It also supports a packet capture software (PCAP) option. This Ethernet recording capability allows DTS1 users to record all Ethernet packets flowing over a platform’s LAN during the course of a mission. This enables the system to record network traffic for later analysis. The DTS1 also supports iSCSI protocol so that network clients can store, share, and retrieve block data. An RMC is small enough to fit in a shirt or flight-suit pocket and yet rugged enough for transport. Error correction, wear-leveling, and bad block management are performed to ensure data integrity.

Secure Operating Systems Another important trend is the teaming of embedded computing vendors with secure embedded operating system suppliers.

In an example along those lines, earlier this year Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) announced an NXP QorIQ T2081 processorbased board solution, the XPedite6101, with a certification-ready multi-core operating system environment, Wind River VxWorks 653 3.0 Multi-core Edition platform (Figure

Figure 2 The XPedite6101 board supports Wind River VxWorks 653 3.0 Multi-core Edition platform enabling secure booting for applications requiring enhanced levels of security.

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2). In addition to being fully ARINC 653-compliant, this solution is integrated with Wind River’s Information Assurance Framework (IAF) to support secure booting for applications requiring enhanced levels of security.

The Wind River VxWorks 653 platform lets users independently develop and deploy multiple applications on a single multi-core hardware platform, supporting rigorous avionics safety standards.

These supported standards include RTCA DO-178C for certifying compliance with the applicable airworthiness regulations for the software aspects of airborne systems and equipment, and ARINC 653 for space and time partitioning in safety-critical avionics realtime operating systems (RTOS). The enhanced security of this solution is derived from the integration of Wind River’s IAF. The IAF utilizes the PowerPC/NXP Trust Architecture, known as the QorIQ Platform Trust Architecture, to enable secure boot, including a builtin security engine that can hide a One Time Programmable Master Key (OTPMK) in a write-only register. This security engine is ideal for performing cryptographic offload of hashing, encryption, and decryption.

Hypervisor Virtualization Along similar lines Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions announced support for the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor, a real-time secure virtualization platform capable of leveraging multi-core CPU hardware virtualization features on Curtiss-Wright’s SBC and Parvus DuraCOR small form factor processor product families. The expanded collaboration between Curtiss-Wright and Lynx Software Technologies enables customers to deploy CurtissWright hardware with LynxSecure hypervisor technology to satisfy high assurance computing requirements on in support of the NIST, NSA Common Criteria, and NERC CIP evaluation processes used to regulate military and industrial computing environments. The first Curtiss-Wright products pre-validated for LynxSecure support are the rugged DuraCOR 80-41 tactical mission computer subsystem and the VPX3-1257 3U OpenVPX SBC, both based on quad-core, Intel Core i7 processors.

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Curtiss-Wright and Lynx Software Technologies anticipate availability of additional pre-validated SBCs and subsystems in the near future. The use of LynxSecure on these hardware platforms speeds and eases the deployment of robust secure compute solutions, such as those requiring security capabilities for Red/Black separation and a Cross Domain Guard in embedded network edge applications.

Red/Black Domain Security For its part, General Micro Systems likewise provides cross domain (Red/Black) security technology in some of its systems.

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While embedded system technologies and Information Technology (IT) have traditionally operated in separate sphere, in today’s networked, connected world, those disciplines are intersecting more and more—and security is among those overlapping points. Certainly, a lot of Information Assurance and Cryptography technology is focused on IT Enterprise kinds of systems.

The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a good example of an IT Commercial and Enterprise technology that is becoming popular as a way to solve complex authentication and key management issues in military applications. Military applications using existing Enterprise IT technologies will differ slightly in implementation; however, well-vetted and universally available technologies can significantly speed up product development for military applications. Systems engineers have to be aware of those technologies if they help bring a security product to the defense market faster.

Exemplifying those trends is Trenton Systems’ TCS2504. The Trenton Cryptographic System TCS2504 is an IBM approved x86 architecture 2U, 19-inch rackmount server featuring a dual-processor system host board, butterfly form-factor PCIe back-

SPECIAL FEATURE Lynx Software Technologies San José, CA (408) 979-3900 www.lynx.com Mercury Systems Chelmsford, MA (978) 967-1401 www.mrcy.com

Figure 4 The TCS2504 is a 2U, 19-inch rackmount server featuring a dual-processor system host board, butterfly form-factor PCIe backplane and the IBM 4767-002 PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessor HSM.

plane and the IBM 4767-002 PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessor (Hardware Security Module (HSM)) (Figure 4). The server chassis is made of lightweight, rugged aluminum, allowing for SWaP considerations in server room or rugged field deployments.

The IBM 4767-002 PCIe Cryptographic Coprocessor (HSM) is a high-end, secure coprocessor implemented on a PCIe card with a multi-chip embedded module. It is a foundation for secure applications such as highassurance digital signature generation or financial transaction processing, utilizing the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) API and security architecture, as well as custom software options.

The IBM 4767 Hardware Security Module (HSM) has been designed to meet the FIPS 140-2 Level 4 requirements by protecting against attacks that include probe penetration or other intrusion into the secure module, side-channel attacks, power manipulation and temperature manipulation.

From the time of manufacture, the hardware is self-protecting by using tamper sensors to detect probing or drilling attempts. If the tamper sensors are triggered, the 4767 HSM destroys critical keys and certificates, and is rendered permanently inoperable.

FPGA-Level Cryptography Cryptography at the chip level was once primary the domain of custom, proprietary solutions. Bucking that trend, Microsemi and The Athena Group last month announced Athena’s TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor is included in Microsemi’s new PolarFire field programmable gate array (FPGA) “S class” family members. As the most advanced cryptographic technol-

ogy offered in any FPGA, the TeraFire hard core provides Microsemi customers access to advanced security capabilities with high performance and low power consumption.

Athena’s highly secure TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor technology addresses these requirements, offering a comprehensive selection of the most commonly used cryptographic algorithms, including all those allowed for military/government use by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Suite B, up to the top-secret level, as well as those recommended in the U.S. Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) Suite. The TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor also supports additional algorithms and key sizes commonly used in commercial Internet communications protocols such as TLS, IPSec, MACSec and KeySec. The core has been leveraged in both application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and FPGA implementations since its introduction eight years ago, and the inclusion of differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasures in the PolarFire FPGA core is designed to increase its popularity with both defense and commercial customers.

Microsemi Aliso Viejo CA (949) 380-6100 www.microsemi.com Trenton Systems Gainesville, GA (770) 287-3100 www.trentonsystems.com Wind River Alameda, CA (510) 748-4100 www.windriver.com

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one are the days when processors where the only choice for doing advanced military computing. As one alternative to general purpose processors, FPGAs have become signal processing engines in their own right. But a third choice has rapidly gained mindshare: the idea of putting high-performance graphics processors to work on general-purpose processing tasks. This idea of “GPUs as generalpurpose processing engines” also falls nicely into the theme of doing more while keeping the complexity at bay using powerful graphics chips from NVIDA and AMD. Addressing the complexity challenge, graphics chip vendor NVIDIA created a parallel computing architecture called CUDA. CUDA lets programmers use conventional computing languages to access the massively parallel processing capabilities of the GPU. Aside from serving applications in radar, signals intelligence and video surveillance and interpretation, GPUs based on the CUDA architecture have potential in other application areas, including target tracking, image stabilization and SAR (synthetic aperture radar) simulation. For this Editor’s Pick section COTS Journal evaluated several such products on three aspects: technology leadership, design innovation and market relevance.

This month’s Pick is the next generation A176 Aitech Defense Systems (Figure 1). Released this month, the upgraded unit is based on the company’s A176 Cyclone GP16

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Figure 1 Jeff’s Pick is Aitech Defense Systems’ upgraded A176 GPGPU supercomputer that uses the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPGPU to provide twice the performance of its predecessor, or run at more than twice the power efficiency, while drawing less than 7.5 watts of power.

GPU supercomputer launched in Fall 2016 but instead uses the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 to provide twice the performance of its predecessor, or run at more than twice the power efficiency, while drawing less than 7.5 watts of power. The resulting rugged GPGPU COTS system enables deep learning capabilities as well as faster, more accurate data and image processing for better military intelligence.

More I/O Options The new A176 features the same fanless, conduction-cooled design and measures only 25.5 cubic inches for high performance in a small form factor (SFF) HPEC system. Video encoding is 4K at 60 Hz with decoding of 4K

at 30 Hz. Available I/O includes gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, UART Serial and discrete. Multiple video outputs (DVI/HDMI, composite, SDI, STANAG) and video Inputs (composite, DVI/HDMI, SDI, Camera Link) are available.

In addition to incorporating the new NVIDIA Jetson TX2 module, the unit now supports more hardware I/O and software options (1553, ARINC 429, Camera Link Frame Grabber), allowing even faster integration to save development time and money.

The internal microSD storage enables more design flexibility to scale the supercomputer to more complex compute-intensive applications. This includes data convolutions and transpositions, image and data manipulation, application of digital filters, image and frame object edge detection, and image recognition and data analysis. Operating temperature ranges from -40 to +70 degrees C. The system complies with VITA 47 levels V2 (vibration), OS1 (shock), MILSTD-810G (rain, dust, salt fog) and EMI/RFI levels to MIL-STD-461.

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...and the Runners Up 3U VPX GPGPU/SBC is Single-Slot Rugged Solution EIZO Rugged Solutions ( formerly Tech Source) offers a high-performance NVIDIA CUDA-based 3U VPX graphics processor combined with an XMC form factor SBC to create a powerful single-slot 3U VPX GPGPU solution (Figure 2). There are two SBC configurations, the Condor GR3-C3 3U VPX and Condor GR3-X7 3U VPX supporting an Intel i3 or i7 processors, respectively. Other SBC configurations will be supported in the near future. The Condor GR3 3U VPX rugged conductioncooled graphics module/SBC was developed for an airborne reconnaissance application where size, weight, and power (SWaP) were key considerations. Its versatile architecture allows for an easy upgrade path of both the graphics module and the SBC. The card also boasts a range of I/O options including 1 Gbps Ethernet, RS-232, USB, and SATA. The Condor GR3 3U VPX hosts the NVIDIA GeForce GTX-950M processor which offers 640 CUDA cores, 1,271 TFLOPs of floating point performance, and 4 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory. Multiple variations are available through customer configuration for balancing CPU and GPGPU performance requirements. The card targets those developing graphics and video processing applications using the NVIDIA CUDA architecture (CUDA 5.0) as well as the industry-standard OpenCL programming language (Open CL 1.2). The card is MIL-STD-810 compliant and supports PCI Express 2.0 (8 or 4 lane) and features DVI, VGA, and DisplayPort++ video outputs from the rear VPX P1/P2 connectors. EIZO Rugged Solutions also offers engineering support pre- and post-sale with the dedication to meet customer needs with design modification.

Figure 2 The Condor GR3 3U VPX hosts the NVIDIA GeForce GTX-950M processor which offers 640 CUDA cores, 1,271 TFLOPs of floating point performance, and 4 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory.

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3U VPX Board Integrates GPU with Frame Grabber Capture Engine WOLF Advanced Technologyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s VPX3U-GM107-SDI-4IO and VPX3U-E8860SDI-4IO VPX integrate both a powerful GPU and WOLFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Frame Grabber eXtreme (FGX) capture engine to create a complete Video Processing Unit (VPU) in a 3U VPX board (Figure 3). Combining these technologies on a single board provides capture, process, encode and display functionality using only one 3U VPX slot, allowing system owners to maximize their per slot investment. The VPX3U-GM107-SDI-4IO includes an NVIDIA Maxwell GM107 28nm GPU, with 1.2 TFLOPS of processing power. Inputs can be routed to the GM107 GPU for advanced processing or encoding, and then output directly using one of the native display formats or through the FGX engine for conversion to another format, such as SDI or CVBS/STANAG. This board uses 25 to 55 watts, tunable to meet power/performance requirements.

The VPX3U-E8860-SDI-4IO includes an AMD Radeon E8860 28nm GPU, with 786 GFLOPS of processing power. Inputs can be routed to the E8860 for advanced processing or encoding, and then output directly using one of the native display formats or through the FGX engine for conversion to another format, such as SDI or CVBS/STANAG. This board uses 30 to 60 watts, tunable to meet power/performance requirements. This AMD GPU also provides support for RTOS drivers, providing an excellent solution for those who require RTOS for safety critical applications.

Figure 3 The VPX3U-GM107-SDI-4IO and VPX3U-E8860-SDI-4IO VPX integrate a powerful GPU and a frame grabber capture engine to create a complete Video Processing Unit in a 3U VPX board.

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Check Out These Video GPGPU Products Too… The GVC1000 from Abaco Systems is a rugged graphics and vision system based on the NVIDIA Jetson TX2 GPU. It provides two 10 Gbit Ethernet ports for receiving multiple camera inputs; two MilCAN/CAN ports to receive vehicle data; and extended USB capability.

Abaco Systems Huntsville, AL (866) 652-2226 www.abaco.com

Advanced Micro Peripherals’ H264ULL-PMC is an ultra-low latency, dual chan-

The RVG-SD1 Digital Video Switch from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions is

nel, H.264 encoder on a PMC Mezzanine form factor board. The H264-ULL-PMC provides a solution for capturing and compressing up to 2 analog video inputs at up to 1080p HD resolution to the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (Part 10) standard.

a rugged SWaP-C optimized 3G-SDI video switch. The unit implements crossbar functionality such that any external SD port automatically configures as an input or an output.

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The VPX3010 from ADLINK Technology with Xeon Processor D SoC can be equipped with a 384 CUDA core NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M GPU XMC module for greatly enhance performance capabilities.

ADLINK Technology San Jose, CA (408) 360-0200 www.adlinktech.com

Connect Tech’s GraphiteVPX/CPU-TX1 is a VITA 65 compliant 3U VPX SBC that brings the NVIDIA Jetson TX1. It has multiple USB 3.0 ports, multiple GbE channels, and 6 CSI camera interfaces. An onboard PCIe Gen 3.0 switch supports two x4 interfaces.

Connect Tech Guelph, Ontario, Canada, (519) 836-1291 www.connecttech.com

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions Ashburn, VA (703) 779-7800 www.curtisswrightds.com

One Stop Systems’ OSS-PASCAL8 is a 170 TeraFLOP engine with 80 Gbyte/s NVIDIA NVLink for the largest deep learning models. This GPU accelerated server has dual v4 Broadwell CPUs and up to 2 Terabytes of DDR4 memory.

One Stop Systems Escondido, CA (877) 438-2724 www.onestopsystems.com

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SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT DoD Budget Report: Major Weapons Programs

Readiness is Focus of Amended DoD Appropriations Request Additional appropriations requested for the FY 2017 Defense Budget are dominated by technology upgrades, added aircraft procurements and modernization investments.

Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief

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t the time of this month’s COTS Journal going to press, the new Administration still has not yet put out their DoD budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2018. On “normal” years comes out in early February. Of more immediate interest perhaps is the DoD’s request to amended the fiscal year 2017 budget. Released in mid-March, the 2017 budget amendment is the current administration’s opportunity to add its own priorities to previous administration’s FY 2017 budget submission.

The $30 billion 2017 budget amendment includes appropriations aimed at accelerating the defeat of the ISIS, al Qaeda, and their affiliated or associated groups, increasing warfighting readiness, and covering new must-pay bills (Figure 1).

According the DoD, this request for additional appropriations is only the first step toward rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces.

The Department absorbed almost $200 billion in funding reductions from FY 2013 through FY 2017 due to the Budget Control Act (BCA) of 2011 and its sequestration impacts. The effect of these reductions was exacerbated by continuing resolutions and unpredictable budgets. Warfighting readiness has been hardest hit, as training, maintenance, and modernization have all suffered significantly.

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Total (Base + OCO) Funding by Appropriation Title $ in Thousands Base + OCO

FY 2017 PB Total Budget Request 1/

FY 2017 OCO Amendment

Request for Additional FY 2017 Appropriations

Total FY 2017 Budget Request

Military Personnel

138,831,498

+144,868

+1,090,450

140,066,816

Operation and Maintenance

251,031,684

+5,100,248

+10,804,039

266,935,971

Procurement

112,081,088

+387,684

+14,470,259

126,939,031

RDT&E

71,765,940

+142,200

+2,424,004

74,332,144

Revolving and Management Funds

1,512,246

-

+963,515

2,475,761

Defense Bill

575,222,456

+5,775,000

+29,752,267

610,749,723

Enacted Military Construction

6,929,373

-

+247,733

7,177,106

Enacted Family Housing

1,276,289

-

-

1,276,289

Enacted Military Construction Bill 3/

8,205,662

-

+247,733

8,453,395

Total Base + OCO

583,428,118

+5,775,000

+30,000,000

619,203,118

Figure 1 Fiscal Year 2017 Total (Base + OCO) funding by appropriation title.

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Total (Base + OCO) Funding by Military Department $ in Thousands Base + OCO

FY 2017 PB Total Budget Request 1/

FY 2017 OCO Amendment

Request for Additional FY 2017 Appropriations

Total FY 2017 Budget Request

Army

148,148,387

+4,416,503

+8,437,801

161,002,691

Navy

165,171,394

+282,171

+9,411,915

174,865,480

Air Force

167,074,290

+558,020

+7,490,114

175,122,424

Defense-Wide

103,034,047

+518,306

+4,660,170

108,212,523

Total Base + OCO

583,428,118

+5,775,000

+30,000,000

619,203,118

Figure 2 Fiscal Year 2017 Total (Base + OCO) funding by military department.

Sequestration Takes its Toll The goal going forward is to restore warfighting readiness and restore capacity and lethality of the joint force. This will require time and stable funding above the current BCA caps for defense for FY 2017 and beyond, according to the DoD. It remains to be seen how sequestration and the Budget Control Act of 2011 will come into play once the budget is voted on. Although of course the BCA becomes a non-issue if the Congress ends up repealing that law.

In summary, the request for additional appropriations covers three parts. First, it addresses near- and mid-term base budget warfighting readiness requirements including depot maintenance, weapon system sustainment, counter-ISIS munitions and operations; and intelligence community requirement. Second, the request includes critical investments to build readiness including funding a variety of ground vehicles and aircraft. Third, the request addresses urgent OCO requirements, focusing on acceleration of the campaign to defeat ISIS; emerging requirements for Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS) in Afghanistan, Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) in Iraq and Syria, support to global counterterrorism operations, and funding for Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), the Syrian Arab Coalition (SAC), and Vetted Syrian Opposition (VSO) forces.

Detailed below are summaries from each of the DoD Branch (Figure 2) illustrat-

ing the impact on warfighting readiness that the $30 billion request for additional appropriations for FY 2017 will provide, with focus on procurement and R&D elements relevant to military systems built by COTS Journal readers (omitting budget items such as personnel, training and ammunition.)

Improving Army Readiness The U.S. Army’s request for additional FY 2017 appropriations, totaling $8.3 billion (6 percent more than the original FY 2017 budget request) in Base and OCO, funds critical requirements to combat Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), restore some warfighter readiness, and arrest the current and future readiness decline of America’s Army (Figure 3). This request provides resources to support the Combatant Commanders (COCOMs) in the fight, addresses current year readiness shortfall, and is a critical first step to rebuilding America’s Army. This request sets the conditions for increased future readiness, but stable budgets and additional resources are essential in the coming years.

Included in the Army’s request is $2.8 billion for “Equipment in Units”. After years of declining funding levels in the Army’s investment and modernization accounts, readiness has suffered. This request starts to restore and modernize equipment in Aviation, Armor Formations, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), and Air and Missile Defense systems across the operational force,

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Total (Base + OCO) Funding Dept. of Army Department of the Army Base + OCO $ in Thousands

FY 2017 PB Total Budget Request 1/

FY 2017 OCO Amendment

Request for Additional FY 2017 Appropriations

Total FY 2017 Budget Request

Military Personnel

57,515,931

+94,034

+375,546

57,985,511

Operation and Maintenance

63,321,924

+4,038,269

+2,931,245

70,291,438

Procurement

18,112,124

+145,000

+4,625,608

22,882,732

RDT&E

7,615,921

+139,200

+442,221

8,197,342

Military Construction

996,018

-

+61,500

1,057,518

Family Housing

483,167

-

-

483,167

Revolving and Management Funds

103,302

-

+1,681

104,983

Total Dept of the Army

148,148,387

+4,416,503

+8,437,801

161,002,691

Figure 3 Fiscal Year 2017 Total (Base + OCO) funding for Department of the Army.

thereby increasing units’ equipment readiness. Among the platform investments for the Army are AH-64 Apache helicopters and M1 Abrams and M2/M3 Bradley upgrades. $1.2 billion is allocated for “COCOM Support / Counter ISIS” funding which means funding for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) for multiple COCOM operations to counter ISIS, al Qaeda, and their affiliated or associated groups.

According to the Army’s summary, this budget amendment request does not grow the force appreciably nor does it increase the lethality of the Army to the levels required. Remaining requirements not represented will need to be addressed in future budgets and include upgrading vehicles in Armor and Stryker formations, increasing aviation and UAS platforms, and installation and infrastructure requirements.

Navy Capacity and Capability Gaps The Department of the Navy (comprised of the Navy and Marine Corps) request for additional FY 2017 appropriations focuses on improving warfighting readiness and key enablers to address the most immediate programmatic readiness shortfalls, as 22

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well as covering pay raises for military and civilian personnel. Longer term efforts to improve the Department’s capability, capacity, and lethality will be pursued in future budgets. The Navy’s request for additional FY 2017 appropriations ($8.3 billion: $8 billion base / $0.3 billion OCO) will drive rapid improvements in ship, aviation, and shore readiness (Figure 4).

The Navy request buys 24 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters and six P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to replenish combat-worn strike fighters and increase the number of ready available aircraft within 30-35 months. Increased ship depot maintenance funding supports 14 surface ship maintenance availabilities in FY 2017.

This enables these ships to begin training for their next deployments on time with improved material condition and modernizations to combat systems, communications, and engineering systems. The Navy’s request also increase in information warfare funding to upgrade and maintain afloat and ashore networks to improve cyber security.

It also provides planning and design for the new Command, Control, communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) system at

Modernization for US Marine Corps.

Meanwhile, the Marine Corps’ request for additional FY 2017 appropriations totals $1.1 billion: $1.0 billion base /$0.1 billion OCO). According the Department of the Navy’s summary, the Marine Corps spent most of the last decade in combat while facing constraints imposed by both fiscal uncertainty and reduced defense spending.

Even while near-peer competitors probe for American weakness and the operational environment grows more complex, the Marine Corps of today is largely optimized for the past and has been required to sacrifice modernization to sustain current readiness.

Rebuilding the Marine Corps will require near term actions to improve warfighting readiness and restore program balance that can be implemented in FY 2017.

Specifics in the Marine Corps’ request include mitigating critical gaps in combat power including Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems capabilities, long range precision fires, operating force exercises and training (including flying hours and aviation logistics), intelligence and communications, repairs to facilities damaged by recent natural disasters, and the implementation of the Installations Reset plan to address deferred maintenance and demolition of facilities.

The request supports essential modernization for the aviation platforms—including the C-40 Clipper aircraft—and enhances the combat capability through electronic warfare and jammer techniques.

Air Force Invests in Technology The Air Force request for additional FY 2017 appropriations increases Air Force topline by $7.4 billion ($6.8 billion base / $0.6 billion OCO) to accelerate readiness recovery, fill critical gaps, and improve lethality (Figure 5). In includes investments in capability and capacity will to improve the Air Force’s 4th and 5th generation aircraft in areas such as F-16 Fighting Falcon sensor upgrades. Also addressed are MC-130J Commando II and HC-130 Combat King II retrofits, HH-60G Pave Hawk datalink interoperability, C-130H Hercules fleet propulsion upgrades and B-52 Stratofortress engine risk reduction. With these added funds, the

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Total (Base + OCO) Funding Dept. of Navy (Navy + Marines) Department of the Navy Base + OCO $ in Thousands

FY 2017 PB Total Budget Request 1/

FY 2017 OCO Amendment

Request for Additional FY 2017 Appropriations

Total FY 2017 Budget Request

Military Personnel

46,081,491

+13,194

+375,248

46,469,933

Operation and Maintenance

55,019,209

+263,977

+2,281,824

57,565,010

Procurement

44,750,286

+5,000

+5,723,510

50,478,796

RDT&E

17,354,624

-

+427,266

17,781,890

Military Construction

1,570,858

-

+71,233

1,642,091

Family Housing

394,926

-

-

394,926

Revolving and Management Funds

-

-

+532,834

532,834

Total Dept of the Navy

165,171,394

+282,171

+9,411,915

174,865,480

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Figure 4 Fiscal Year 2017 Total (Base + OCO) funding Department of the Navy (Navy and Marine Corps).

Air Force will procure five additional F-35A Lightning II’s and fund production shortfalls for C-130’s, space, and munitions. Funds will also strengthen the Air Force nuclear posture by funding nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3), Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) sustainment, and bomber readiness.

The Air Force request includes $57.4 million for “Weapons System Cyber Resiliency”. That comprises funding for the common computing environment, fixes Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) ground resiliency cyber defense, increases cyber resiliency of Air Force weapons systems, and accelerates multiple cyber resiliency requirements in line with Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense, Joint Staff, and Navy interests. $86.5 million is allocated for the “Counter small Unmanned Aerial System. That supports Strategic Command Joint Emergent Operational Need to protect national assets from increased capability and proliferation of small unmanned aerial systems available in the commercial market place.

Funding for the “Battlefield Airman combat equipment ($109.9 million)” funds

operation kits, which decreases the risk of fratricide and decreases the weight of Battlefield Airman Equipment by 30 percent.

It also includes funds for communication, situational awareness, explosive detection, and personal-protection equipment for Security Forces, Guardian Angels, Special Tactics, and Terminal Air Controllers.

COCOM airlift and security requirements funding request is $91.5 million which comprises critical ISR, airlift, command and control, and transport support for COCOM/Department of State partner-nation efforts and peacekeeping operations.

In terms of aircraft procurement, the Air Force request includes $5.7 billion across a number of platforms. $690.5 million of that procures five additional F-35A’s to bring FY 2017 production to 48 aircraft, and funds initial spares. $466.9 million funds aircraft upgrades and life-extension efforts for multiple weapon systems including F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-15 Eagle, C130J Super Hercules, MC-130J Commando II, HC-130J Combat King II, HH-60G Pave Hawk, E-3 Sentry, E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS), B-1 Lancer, and A-10 Thunderbolt II. Funding

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SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT of $500.0 million procures four additional MC-130J Commando II aircraft to continue recapitalization to 94 AC/MC-130J Ghostrider/Commando II aircraft, and procures one additional HC-130J Combat King II aircraft for a total of 37 aircraft.

Funding at $27.6 million upgrades radar essential for space surveillance and cyber security, such as detection and tracking of space objects, and operating Geospatial Information Systems. $88.9 million is allocated for funding of critical Nuclear Command, Control, and Communication

capabilities to provide National Leadership secure connectivity, Nuclear Missile Sustainment and Security (parts to sustain the ICBM platform), and Nuclear Bomber Support (upgrades for strategic long range bombers).

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That effort procures peer-to-peer cryptologic interoperability with NSA architecture, automated ingest of airborne data, improved geolocation, timeliness, and accuracy for tracking and targeting. $29.8 million procures Compass Call Special Purpose Emitter Array Gen 3 kits. The kits improve survivability of deployed ground and air forces by targeting enemy communications, navigation, and radar systems. Procurement of the Counter Unmanned Aerial System ($76.0 million) protect overseas assets. R&D investment of $15.7 million is allocated for Counter Unmanned Aerial System and Cyber operations technology.

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As the above information shows, the DoD’s plans for investments include many opportunities for technology suppliers from our COTS embedded computing industry.

Upgrades and modernization programs especially are where our industry shines. In the coming months we’ll see what the new Administration’s DoD budget request for fiscal year 2018 will look like. But most predict: more, more, more. More money, more programs and more modernization. And many advanced programs are likely to see increases in funding.

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Total (Base + OCO) Funding Dept. of Air Force Department of the Air Force

FY 2017 PB Total Budget Request 1/

FY 2017 OCO Amendment

Request for Additional FY 2017 Appropriations

Total FY 2017 Budget Request

Base + OCO

35,234,076

+37,640

+339,656

35,611,372

$ in Thousands

57,237,500

+382,496

+2,620,998

60,240,994

Procurement

43,903,689

+137,884

+3,499,578

47,541,151

RDT&E

28,145,156

-

+914,882

29,060,038

Military Construction

2,154,121

-

+115,000

2,269,121

Family Housing

335,781

-

-

335,781

Revolving and Management Funds

63,967

-

-

63,967

Total Dept of the Air Force

167,074,290

+558,020

+7,490,114

175,122,424

Figure 5 Fiscal Year 2017 Total (Base + OCO) funding Department of the Air Force.

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VME and CompactPCI Thrive in Tech Refresh Roles For situations where a military platform needs upgraded computing technology, VME and CompactPCI SBCs remain the leading slot-card solutions.

Jeff Child, Editor-in-Chief

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ME and CompactPCI do extremely well in technology refresh programs.

A new board with the latest and greatest processor, memory and I/O can easily be dropped into a slot that could be decades old. Many vendors roll out new VME SBCs each year. In contrast, the rate of new product roll outs for CompactPCI SBCs has dropped off, so this year we’ve merged them into this VME roundup.

A consequence of the lack of many “new start” defense programs in recent years has been a proliferation of contracts involving tech upgrades and tech insertions kinds of contracts. The embedded computing has taken good advantage of those opportunities to add new technology to existing military platforms. Each in their own ways, VME and CompactPCI are both popular technologies for upgrade situations. Some complications have arisen on the VME side as the some VMEbus interface chips have gone end-of-life. But there again, vendors are providing solutions to keep that functionality available using FPGAs. With the emergence of OpenVPX, there’s been a natural positioning of VPX as replacing VME. But that’s not as straightforward a comparison as it would seem. VPX is certainly better suited for high-bandwidth, data intensive military applications, while VME is suited for applications that are 26

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Figure 1 VME is used in the AN/UPX-29(V) Interrogator System Mode 5 shipboard identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) system aboard Navy Arleigh Burkeclass guided missile destroyers like the USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110). event-driven. Event driven functions like controlling motors and actuators, moving gun turrets and missile launch-frames into position, fall into the event driven category.

In contrast technologies based on switch fabrics and parallel PCI bus-based systems (like CompactPCI) aren’t suited to meet those requirements. As a result, VME is expected to remain the primary architecture in these platforms for many years to come. VME for example is used in the Navy’s

AN/UPX-29(V) Interrogator System Mode 5 shipboard identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) system aboard Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers (Figure 1).

CompactPCI for its part will never rival VME’s legacy in the defense market. But CompactPCI has certainly secured its position as a trusted and mature technology for military systems. Based on the same proven Eurocard form factor as VME, CompactPCI has enjoyed success over the years in industrial control, transportation and defense applications. And while new start defense programs seem to be giving it less consideration in recent years, it still remains strong as a for tech upgrades of legacy systems.

Because PCI sees a lot broader use than VME, CompactPCI hasn’t faced the same kind of bridge chip interface obsolescence problems that VME has. PCI, and now PCI Express, is inherent on many processors and their support silicon. Enhancements to the spec like called CompactPCI PlusIO and CompactPCI Serial add new levels of functionality. CompactPCI Serial offers some advantages in simplicity in comparison to OpenVPX. CompactPCI Serial doesn’t require any switches or bridges in systems with up to nine slots. Systems with up to 21 slots can be implemented with a bridge.

And pin assignments of all peripheral slots are identical.

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VME Xeon Kaby Lake SBC Targets Low Risk Upgrades

Celeron-based 6U VME Board Features Locked-Down SODIMM

6U CompactPCI Processor Blade Serves up 6th Gen Intel Core i7

Abaco Systems’ XVR19 is a 6U VME SBC based on the latest 7th generation Intel technology (codenamed “Kaby Lake”). It provides a straightforward, cost-effective and low-risk upgrade for users of previous XVR products. The XVR19 is a fully rugged offering, with both rugged air-cooled and conduction-cooled versions, targeted at command and control applications typical of the defense and aerospace markets on land, sea and air.

The XVME-6700 from Acromag adds is a high-performance SBC that features a FPGA-based VME to PCIe-bridge that solves the end of life issue with the TSI148 VME interface chip. It has ruggedized SODIMM removable memory that is surrounded by heat sink material to provide a robust holddown mechanism. The SODIMM is secured with four screws so it is easy to replace faulty memory

The ADLINK Technology’s cPCI6630 Series is a 6U 4/8 HP CompactPCI processor blade featuring a 6th generation Intel Core i7/Celeron processor and Mobile Intel HM170 PCH with DDR4-2133 non ECC memory up to 32 Gbytes via 2 SODIMM sockets. The cPCI-6630 Series provides additional flexibility by supporting operation in peripheral slots without CompactPCI bus communication (Satellite mode).

• Intel Xeon E3-1505M, E3-1505L v5.

• 32 Gbytes of DDR4 SDRAM soldered with ECC. • Supports 2eSST VME, DisplayPort, DVI, Gigabit Ethernet, GPIO, SATA, Serial, USB and VGA. • 2x PMC/XMC. • 4x USB 3.0, 4x USB 2.0, 4x COM, 2x SATA III. • Up to 256 Gbytes of M.2 on-board storage.

• Front and Rear I/O. Abaco Systems Huntsville, AL (866) 652-2226 www.abaco.com

• Celeron 2002E Processor with 2M cache, 1.50 GHz. • FPGA-based VME to PCIe bridge.

• Intel 8-Series QM87 PCH chipset.

• Up to 16 Gbytes of high-speed DDR3L memory with SODIMM lock-down mechanism.

• Front panel I/O includes dual USB 2.0 ports, VGA, dual Gbit Ethernet and RS232 port.

• Backplane I/O includes dual Gbit Ethernet, dual SATA ports, dual USB ports, DVI-D, RS-232/422/485 and VGA. Acromag Wixom, MI (248) 295-0310 www.acromag.com

• Quad-core 6th Gen Intel Core i7/ Celeron processor.

• Up to 32 Gbytes of DDR4-2133 memory via two SO-DIMMs. • 5V power input only.

• Front panel I/O including 1x DVI-I, 1x DVI-D, 3x GbE, 3x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0, 1x RJ-45 COM port and 1x PS/2 KB/MS. • 2.5-inch SATA drive space and 7-pin SATA connector.

• Legacy IO supported: PS/2, PMC, CompactFlash.

• Optional SEMA 3.0 support.

ADLINK Technology San Jose, CA. (408) 360-0200. www.adlinktech.com

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Space-Qualified 3U cPCI SBC Upgrades Speed and Memory Size

VME Single Board Computer Features 1.2 GHz NXP QorIQ P5010

VME SBC Serves up 32 GB of DRAM and 3 External SATA300 Links

Aitech's newly updated Space-rated SP0-S for LEO, MEO or GEO missions features NXP’s ( formally Freescale) PowerQUICC III MPC8548E – e500 System on Chip. This further enhanced SP0-S 3U CompactPCI SBC represents an evolution from the previous generation of Space COTS SP0 SBC.

The Artesyn Embedded Technologies MVME8110 is a high performance 6U VME SBC featuring the NXP QorIQ P5010 processor supporting high speed DDR31200 MHz with ECC. It offers multiple USB, Serial and Ethernet ports. Memory includes up to 4 Gbytes of DDR3, 512 Kbytes MRAM non-volatile memory, and 8 Gbytes of eMMC NAND flash. it is designed for a range of high end industrial control such as SPE and photo lithography and C4ISR, including Radar/Sonar.

The VP F1x/msd from Concurrent Technologies is a 6U VME board based on a 4th generation Intel Core processor for high performance applications with enhanced graphics capabilities. It offers the maximum level of backwards compatibility given the component changes to enable continued manufacture. For reliable storage, there are customer selectable options including onboard CFast, application flash and a 2.5-inch drive mounting kit as well as SATA based storage via the rear connectors.

• Space-qualified 3U CompactPCI SBC tested to over 100 kRad (Si) TID. • Latch-up immune to >65 MeV-cm2/mg, ideal for GEO Missions.

• 1 GB of fast DDR2 SDRAM; 1-8 GB user flash and 2 MB EEPROM boot memory.

• 10 W overall consumption.

• Space-rated onboard temp sensors for Series 500 Flight Units.

• Onboard space-rated µC with A/D to monitor all onboard voltage supplies.

• Unlimited design flexibility with extensive I/O interfaces.

• Versions available for lab development, engineering prototype and flight units.

Aitech Defense Systems Chatsworth, CA (888) 248-3248 www.rugged.com

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• NXP QorIQ P5010 1.2 GHz. • Up to 4 Gbytes of DDR3-1200 MHz ECC memory.

• 512 Kbytes MRAM. • 2PMC/XMC sites.

• 4th generation Intel Core processor—2 or 4 cores.

• Up to 32 Gbytes of soldered DDR3L-1600 DRAM with ECC. • Dual PMC/XMC module sites.

• Embedded NAND Flash (8GB eMMC).

• Up to 3 x 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet interfaces.

• Up to 3 USB 2.0 ports.

• Up to 3 x external SATA300 interfaces.

• Up to 3 Ethernet ports.

• Option for an on-board SATA300 drive and option for on-board CFast or SATA flash module.

• Up to 5 Serial ports.

• 2 GPIO. Artesyn Embedded Technologies Tempe, AZ (888) 412-7832 www.artesyn.com

• 3 x serial interfaces and up to 7 x USB interfaces.

Concurrent Technologies Woburn, MA (781) 933 5900 www.gocct.com

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SBC Features an NXP Power T2080 and FPGA-based VME Interface

6U Core i7 VME SBC Eases Upgrades to VXS Enhancement

4th Gen Core cPCI Board Provides Multiple Security Configurations

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions’ VME196 combines the performance and the advanced I/O capabilities of the NXP Power Architecture quad-core AltiVec enabled T2080 processor. The board is available in a range of ruggedization levels, both air- and conduction-cooled. The VME-196 is pin and feature compatible to previous generation SBCs from Curtiss-Wright including the VME-182, 183, 184, 186, and 194.

The CPU-71-17 from Dynatem, a Eurotech subsidiary, is a VXS/VME bus CPU board based on the Intel 4th generation Core processors. Thanks to the VXS P0 connector VMEbus users can enjoy high-speed serial communication capability without modifying their existing assets. The VXS serial bus standard improves the speed of the parallel VMEbus allowing transfers up to 6.25 times faster.

EKF Elektronik’s PC4-PRESTO is a 3U CompactPCI PlusIO CPU board with a 4th Generation Intel Core mobile processor (Haswell dual- or quad-core) including the i3, i5 and i7. The front panel has two Gbit Ethernet, two USB 3.0 and two Mini DisplayPort ports.

• NXP Power Architecture T2080 quadcore SoC running 1.8 GHz with AltiVec. • 3 Gbit Ethernet ports; up to 6 serial channels; discrete and differential digital I/O, SATA, USB 2.0 ports and two PMC/ XMC sites.

• Intel Core i7 or Core i5.

• Mobile IntelQM87 chipset.

• 8 Gbytes DDR3-1333 soldered DRAM. • Advanced Vector Extensions AVX2.0 and enhanced security with AES-NI.

• 3U CompactPCI PlusIO CPU board.

• 4th Gen Intel Core mobile processor i3, i5 or i7.

• Front panel: 2 Gbit Ethernet, two USB 3.0 and two Mini DisplayPort ports.

• Local expansion mezzanine boards (side cards) available.

• Legacy VME or VME64 compatible.

• Up to 16 Gbytes of RAM with ECC support.

• Extended temperature operation is an option.

• Low profile SSD mezzanine modules available.

• NXP Secure BOOT.

• VXS P0 connector with 2 ports of Serial RapidIO Gen2 4x.

• Connectors comply with the PICMG CompactPCI PlusIO system slot spec.

• Optional on-card integrated MIL-STD1553B interfaces.

• x1 mSATA and 1x eUSB ports available.

• Multiple security configurations are available including TPM 2.0 and TCG 2.0.

• Supported by Curtiss-Wright’s U-Boot, Green Hills INTEGRITY, Lynx Software Technologies LynxOS, Yocto NXP SDK based Linux and Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7 BSPs.

Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions Ashburn, VA (703) 779-7800 www.cwcdefense.com

• Dual PMC/XMC slots.

Dynatem Mission Viejo, CA (949) 855-3235 www.dynatem.com

EKF Elektronik Hamm, Germany +49 (0)2381/6890-0 www.ekf.com

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6U SBC Blends QorIQ T2080 Processor-and 8 Gbit Ethernet Ports

3 GHz Kaby Lake-Based VME SBC Boasts 64 GB of DRAM

VME SBC Sports an 8-Core Xeon D-15xx Processor

The XCalibur1931 from Extreme Engineering is a high-performance, 6U VME, multiprocessing, single board computer that is ideal for systems requiring high bandwidth processing and low power consumption. With four dual-threaded e6500 cores running at up to 1.8 GHz, each with a 128-bit AltiVec SIMD unit, the T2080 is welled suited for the performance and efficiency demands of military embedded computing applications.

General Micro Systems’ VME120 “Royal Albatross” is a ninth-generation 6U VME SBC module based on GMS's upgradable CPU "computing engine" technology. It may be operated in all VME backplanes in VME64 or VME64x form factors with 3-row or 5-row connectors with or an optional P0 interconnect. Based on Intel’s newest Kaby Lake Xeon E3 CPU, the board is targeted for applications where high-speed processing power is required for upgrading legacy hardware or for new applications where hard real time is required.

The IC-INT-VMEb from Interface Concept is an Intel Xeon processor D-15xxbased VME board. With as many as 8 processor cores, combined with 2 banks of 8 Gbyte DDR4, 4 Gbit Ethernet ports and 4 SATA interfaces among others, the board is capable of meeting computeintensive needs, in industrial and harsh environments (available in standard and rugged variants). This board integrates a Kintex-7 FPGA, that is dedicated to customers’ application requirements.

• NXP QorIQ T2080 processor with four dual-threaded e6500 cores at up to 1.8 GHz. • Conduction or air cooling.

• Up to 8 Gbytes of DDR3-1866 ECC SDRAM; Up to 512 Mbytes of NOR flash; Up to 32 Gbytes of CPU NAND flash.

• Up to eight Gigabit Ethernet ports.

• One USB 2.0 port out the front panel (optional); Two RS-232 serial ports out the front/back panel; Two RS232/422/485 serial ports out the back panel.

• Two PrPMC interfaces.

Extreme Engineering Solutions Middleton, WI (608) 833-1155 www.xes-inc.com

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• 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon E3 (Kaby Lake, 7th Generation Core) processor with 4 Cores.

• 2.2 GHz (or 2.2 GHz) Intel Xeon Processor D-1548 (or D-1527).

• DDR4 with ECC up to 2 x 8 Gbytes.

• Up to 64 Gbytes of DDR4 memory with ECC.

• On-board SATA SSD (up to 16 Gbytes); Up to 4 SATA ports on P0.

• Supports Two 10 Gbit Ethernet ports and Two Gbit Ethernet ports all with TCP/IP offloading engine (TOE).

• 4 Gbit Ethernet ports; 4 USB ports; 1 console port; 3 multimode serial ports.

• 1 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0 to front panel, 4 USB 2.0 to rear P2.

• MIL-STD-810G, MIL-S-901D, DO-160D, MIL-STD-461F compliant.

• Operates up to -20 to 75 degrees C. General Micro Systems Rancho Cucamonga, CA (909) 980-4863 www.gms4sbc.com

• Two PMC/XMC slots.

• Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA on board.

• Optional HDMI/DVI video link.

Interface Concept Quimper, France +33 (0)2 98 57 30 30 www.interfaceconcept.com

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3U CompactPCI Board Meets Graphics and Network Needs

CompactPCI PlusIO SBC Sports Intel Atom Apollo Lake-I

3U cPCI QorIQ P2041 SBC Offers 1553B and ARINC 429/575 Links

The CP3004-SA adds the fifth Generation of Intel Core technology to Kontron’s CompactPCI product portfolio. The high-density design offers extraordinary performance-per-watt values, based on the 14-nanometer technology, and is an ideal backbone for powerful network-intensive applications providing virtualization (VT-X, VT-D) and highest graphics performance.

The new-generation graphics controller has up to 40 execution units providing OpenCL 1.2 / OpenGL 4 and triple independent display support.

The F26L from MEN Micro is based on Intel's latest Apollo Lake-I platform with either two or four cores, and improved graphics options. The CompactPCI PlusIO board is backward compatible to all predecessors of this family. The CompactPCI PlusIO specification allows the board to be used as a mere CompactPCI card, or in a hybrid system for control of both CompactPCI and CompactPCI Serial peripheral boards.

North Atlantic Industries’ 75PPC1FT3-is a Quad Core Power PC, 3U cPCI SBC solution targeted at military and avionics platforms that require high density communications and performance in SWaP-constrained environments. The board is configured with quad channel, dual redundant, MIL-STD-1553B, and 12-channel ARINC 429/575 Tx/Rx communications bus ports.

• High performance range, high-end graphics, high connectivity, rugged.

• Core i7 quadcore and dual core (4th gen) versions.

• Up to 16 Gbytes of DDR3L 1600 MHz (2x SODIMM's), with ECC. • DirectX 11, OpenGL 4, three independent outputs.

• USB 3.0, SATA 6 Gbit/s, 3x Gbit Ethernet/WOL, PCI Express.

• Extended temperature and VITA47 EAC3.

Kontron America Poway, CA (858) 677-0877 www.kontron.com

• Intel 1.6 GHz E3900 series CPU with up to four cores.

• Up to 8 Gbytes of DDR3 RAM soldered, ECC. • For CompactPCI 2.0 systems or CompactPCI PlusIO 2.30 hybrid systems.

• CPU TDP 6.5 W to 12 W. • Front I/O: 2 Gbit Ethernet, 2 USB 3.0, 1 VGA; Rear I/O: 2 Gbit Ethernet, 4 PCIe x1, 4 USB 2.0.

• microSD card and mSATA slots.

• Up to -40 to +85 degrees C screened.

MEN Micro Ambler, PA (215) 542-9575 www.menmicro.com

• NXP QorIQ P2041 Quad-Core e500mc Processor 1.2 GHz. • Up to 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM; Up to 32 GB SATA II NAND Flash.

• Less than 25 Watts MB power dissipation.

• Front and/or rear I/O. • 2x 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet; 2x USB 2.0; 1x RS232; 8x TTL I/O; I2C bus.

• Intelligent I/O library support available • VICTORY Interface Services.

• Operating temperature: 0° C to +70 degrees C (commercial version), or -40 to +85 degrees C (rugged).

North Atlantic Industries Bohemia, NY (631) 567-1100 www.naii.com

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1U Rackmount Server Boasts Dual-Protection Features Acrosser Technology has announced the ANR-C236N1, a 1U rackmount server with a Dual-Protection feature.

This feature allows simultaneously supporting both hot swappable HDD/SSD and the highly-effective redundant power supply. This Dual-Protection can eliminate unnecessary failures, reduce the chance of system errors and improve server efficiency. The ANR-C236N1 is equipped with a hot-swappable HDD/SSD for RAID 0/1 which allows users to remove the malfunctioning HDD/SDD without shutting down the machine, thereby eliminating machine downtime. The other feature of Dual-Protection is the ANR-C236 is also equipped with 1+1 redundant power supply units (RPSU) which avoids the unexpected power failure and increase the power supply product life by balancing the power output.

The rackmount server comes with the latest Intel server

3.5-inch Apollo Lake-based SBC Supports Extended Temperatures Axiomtek has announced the CAPA318, a fanless 3.5inch embedded motherboard, featuring Intel Pentium processor N4200 or Celeron processor N3350 (codename: Apollo Lake) with low power consumption.

The CAPA318 works in extended temperature environments from -20 to +70 degrees C. It was designed to support one 204-pin DDR3L-1867 SO-DIMM with a memory capacity up to 8 Gbytes.

Furthermore, the compact-size embedded board with an emphasis on expandability offers two full-size PCI Express Mini Card slots.

The integrated 3.5-inch embedded board is equipped with two RS-232 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, 8-IN/OUT digital I/O, VGA port, LVDS port, and dual Gbit Ethernet ports with Intel i211AT Ethernet controller. For storage needs, the CAPA318 provides one SATA-600 socket and one mSATA interface.

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chipset C236 PCH, which supports the latest Intel Xeon E3-1200 V5 server processor, and the 6th generation CPU Skylake-S Core i7/i5/i3/Pentium series. The server provides 12x GbE copper LANs (4-pair bypass), 2x 10G fiber networks (SFP+), 1 x expandable network interface modules (Exp. NIM), 1 Console, 2x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0, 1x HDMI and 1 x Exp. PCIe slot. It comes equipped with an LCM display which shows 100 x 16 Pixels in Graphic Mode and 16-character x 2-line in Character Mode.

Acrosser USA Cypress, CA. (714) 903-1760. www.acrosser.com

1 kW Full Brick DC/DC Series Adds 48V and 53V Models Calex has announced the expansion of its FXW wide input range 1kW full brick series with a 48V and 53Vout model. The 24S48.21FXW and 24S53.19FXW offer an ultra-wide 9 to 36VDC input range making them ideal for 12V and 24V battery powered applications. The 48Vout model offers up to 21A of output current and the 53Vout model offers up to 19A of output current.

Both converters are isolated input to output and boast efficiencies of up to 96.9 percent. The FXW is 2.5- x 4.7- x 0.52-inches and offers excellent thermal performance with a metal baseplate. The operating temperature range of the FXW is -40 to +105 degrees C. Optional heatsinks are available for extended temperature use.

Calex Concord, CA (925) 687-4411 www.calex.com

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BSP Marries Enterprise Linux to Intel-Based HPEC Boards Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) has announced its X-ES Enterprise Linux (XEL), a Board Support Package (BSP) that enables the use of an Enterprise Linux distribution in conjunction with X-ES rugged, embedded computing hardware. The BSP operates in conjunction with a stable Enterprise Linux distribution to add full functionality and accessibility to all of an X-ES embedded computing module’s ports and I/O. Built against kernel source code provided by a prominent enterprise-class Linux vendor and operating as a compatibility layer on top of a trusted and proven Enterprise Linux distribution, this well-supported and easy-to-use Linux package is ideal for development and deployable embedded hardware. Linux distributions compatible with XEL include, but are not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and Scientific Linux. XEL is designed to provide full Linux support for all of X-ES’ x86 architecture embedded processor modules, including the Xeon-D based XPedite7670 3U VPX board (shown). The XEL BSP adds a layer of support for X-ES hardware through an assortment of kernel modules and drivers that enable onboard devices. The BSP’s included drivers provide access to Intel ICH GPIO and Intel Bay Trail devices, I2C GPIO devices, and temperature sensors, allowing customer to fully interface with X-ES’ products.

Extreme Engineering Solutions Middleton, WI (608) 833-1155 www.xes-inc.com

BGA Socket Adapter Enables Use of QFN Package Devices Ironwood Electronics’ new adapter for the 16 pin BGA device allows use of the equivalent IC in QFN package to be used in PCB boards developed for BGA packages. The PC-QFN16A/BGA16C-01 is mapped specifically for the On Semiconductor multi-function differential Logic Gate NBSG86A. The part consists of a single piece FR4 (High temp PCB) with solder balls on the bottom side and can be easily placed on the target board by the flux and reflow method. Top side of the adapter consists of QFN footprint. Total height of the adapter is less than 1mm and a clearance of 0.3mm from the target board aids in cleaning and inspection. These adapters with NBSG86A (QFN16) soldered on the top side are priced at $43.78 each at quantity 1,600.

Ironwood Electronics Eagan, MN (800) 404-0204 www.ironwoodelectronics.com

Time and Frequency AMC Serves up On-Board GPS Vadatech has announced the AMC005 Time and Frequency module with on-board GPS. The AMC005 provides a complete, feature-rich, GPS / PTP (1588) / IRIG / NTP bus-level timing solution to MicroTCA and ATCA systems. Precision UTC timestamps and GPS location/time/status are all made available via PCIe registers to the host CPU/ application. GPS location, time and status data are available via backplane Ethernet Broadcast/Unicast with selectable bonding and failover. Optional backup provides nonvolatile storage of the Almanac, Ephemeris, and Last position data to enable rapid “warm start” re-acquisition.

The AMC005 can demodulate IRIG Amplitude Modulated (AM) signals and receive/transmit IRIG DC Level Shift (DCLS) signals. The disciplined clock, 1PPS, divided-down clocks, IRIG DCLS, and time trigger may be output in any combination of the backplane clock channels. The module acts as a Grand-Master Clock or Clock Bridge between GPS / PTP (1588) / IRIG / NTP to provide enhanced flexibility to the system design, and also supports Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) to eliminate clock drift at the Ethernet PHY level. The flexibility of the AMC005 makes it ideal for a board range of applications requiring precision time synchronization, including communication networks, sonar, bi-static radar and SIGINT. Vadatech Henderson, NV (702) 896-3337 www.vadatech.com

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Self-Encrypting Commercial SSD Meets Needs of Classified Programs Mercury Systems, has announced the commercial availability of its ASURRE-Stor portfolio of self-encrypting solid-state drives (SSD) designed and manufactured at Mercury’s DMEA-trusted facility in Phoenix, AZ. The product is engineered to the rigorous specifications dictated by the Commercial Solutions for Classified (CSfC) program, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 standards, and the Common Criteria Full Disk Encryption FDE-EE and FDE-AA collaborative Protection Profiles (cPP).

Users can integrate Mercury’s self-encrypting SSD into their security designs to protect classified, secret and top secret data with the strength of advanced encryption standard with 256 bit keys in the XTS block cipher mode (AES-256 XTS).

Launched by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Security Service (CSS), the CSfC program protects highly sensitive data by simultaneously implementing two compliant commercial security components in layers. The NSA actively maintains a database of trusted security components available for CSfC implementation, inclusive of both hardware and software-based commercial technologies.

At the core of the ruggedized new product is Mercury’s exclusive ARMOR processor, an SSD controller designed and manufactured in the United States. Using a suite of certified

Thin Mini-ITX Board Features 7th Gen Intel Core U Processors Congatec has introduced the conga-IC175, a thin industrial-grade motherboard family featuring the new 7th Gen Intel Core U (Kaby Lake) processors. The boards feature a SIM card socket for 3G/4G or Narrow Band connectivity and first versions of the Congatec Cloud-API. The option is provided for the use of ultra-fast Intel Optane memory via M.2 connector. The motherboards ship with 4 different dual-core variants of 7th Gen Intel Core U SoC processors and have a configurable cTDP from 7.5 W to 25 W. Two SO-DIMM sockets support up to 32 Gbytes of DDR4-2133 memory. For non-volatile memory, the boards offer 1x M.2 slot supporting the new Intel Optane memory for significantly lower latency and higher data rates mass storage devices. 2x SATA 3.0 interfaces allow additional HDDs or SSDs to be connected.

Congatec San Diego, CA 858-457-2600 www.congatec.us

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cryptographic algorithms developed by Mercury for highly secure defense applications, the ARMOR processor seamlessly integrates data at rest protection with predictable, sustained performance in thermally and mechanically stressful operating environments.

In contrast to commercial SSD devices for consumer and enterprise applications, the new offering from Mercury marries high-endurance NAND flash with a SWaP-optimized, militaryhardened 2.5-inch form factor optimized for high duty cycle operation in the most severe land, air, and sea operating environments.

Mercury Systems Andover, MA (978) 967-1401 www.mrcy.com

Arria 10 SoC System-OnModule Provides Four FMC Links ReFLEX CES offers its new Achilles (Arria 10 SoC) System-On-Module, which has four standardized FMC interfaces to give users a unique, flexible, fast designing high-end solution. The biggest density FPGA-SoC device, an excellent signal integrity, an unequal number of IOs and some other features provides developers the best in class experience. Achilles is targeting a wide range of markets including Video Broadcast, Intelligent and Machine Vision, High end Industrial, Military, Test & Measurement and Medical. At Embedded World the company displayed a CANBus demo in the booth based on Achilles Arria 10 SoC System-OnModule integrating the CAN IP to support various industrial applications.

ReFLEX CES Lisses, France +331 69 87 02 55 www.reflexces.com

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Card Cage Family Offers Versatile Configurations

Cooling Solutions Target OpenVPX and MicroTCA Systems Pixus Technologies has introduced new RiCool V fans for enhanced intelligent cooling in several backplane-based computing solutions. The Pixus reverse-impeller blowers require only 1U of space above the card cage to provide highperformance cooling. This approach helps keep the chassis height low, while providing more efficient and effective cooling than axial muffin fans that are often employed in the rear of an enclosure. Located directly above the card cage, the 12V RiCool V fans provide up to 200 Cubic Feet per Minute (CFM) of cooling and 3.2 inches of H2O static pressure. The fans provide full shelf management functionality and are individually hot swappable.

Pixus Technologies Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (519) 885-5775 www.pixustechnologies.com

Pure Sinewave Inverter is Designed for Military Vehicles Nova Electric, division of Technology Dynamics has announced the launch of the NGL-600W pure sinewave DC to AC inverter as part of its NGL inverter series. This ruggedized and lightweight inverter is rated 600W/800VA DC to AC for military vehicle applications. This vehicle mounted pure sinewave output works from a wide range input of 18-32 V and delivers 115 V 60 Hz, The unit features Over Voltage, Over Temperature, and Over Load protection. The unit can also supply high peak current to loads that start with high inrush. EMI filtering contained in the unit is intended to provide MIL-STD-461E compliance while the construction enables it to meet MIL-STD-810 for 20G shock and vibration for vehicle applications.

Nova Electric Bergenfield, NJ (201) 385-0500 www.novaelectric.com

Verotec has announced the KM6 card cage family. Three different systems, each optimized to suit a range of applications, are available: KM6-II, KM6-RF and KM6HD. Front panels, compatible with all KM6 versions, are a critical building block; three types are available: unshielded to IEC 60297, shielded to IEEE 1101.10 and a further design dedicated to the VXI architecture. Two and four rail modules, which can be fitted with top, bottom and side covers to enclose, screen and protect the PCB are available in 3U and 6U heights, 160 and 220mm depths and a range of widths from 10 to 42HP. Iridite NCP conductive finish extruded shielded panels are fitted with a double swipe stainless steel EMC gasket. They are available as blank filler panels, with a fixed pull handle or with an improved design of injector/ejector latching handle that generates greater insertion and extraction force for use with high pin count backplane connectors. The injector/ ejector handles include a pre-location pin and an ESD protection pin; a live extraction micro switch and additional screw fixings are optional extras. Shielded panels are available in 3U, 6U and 9U heights and 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 12HP widths as standard, other widths to order.

Verotec Manchester, NH (603) 821-9921 www.verotec.us

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S Class FPGA Embeds TeraFire Hard Cryptographic Microprocessor Microsemi and The Athena Group have announced that Athena’s TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor is included in Microsemi’s new PolarFire FPGA “S class” family members. Athena’s secure TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor technology offers a comprehensive selection of the most commonly used cryptographic algorithms, including all those allowed for military/ government use by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Suite B, up to the top secret level, as well as those recommended in the U.S. Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) Suite.

The TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor also supports additional algorithms and key sizes commonly used in commercial Internet communications protocols such as TLS, IPSec, MACSec and KeySec. The core has been leveraged in both application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and FPGA implementations since its introduction eight years ago. Microsemi’s PolarFire FPGAs combine low power at mid-range densities with 12.7 Gbps Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) transceivers, as well as high reliability. The TeraFire cryptographic microprocessor enables significantly better built-in cryptographic capabilities in comparison to any SRAM-based FPGAs. The TeraFire core delivers state-of-the-art countermeasures against side-channel analysis (SCA) techniques such as DPA and differential electro-magnetic analysis (DEMA) that could otherwise be used to extract secret keys from the device. Every supported algorithm using a secret or private key is available with countermeasures against SCA. The Athena TeraFire EXP-5200B DPA-resistant cryptographic microprocessor is capable of nearly 200 MHz operation, implementing all Suite B, CNSA and additional widely used algorithms. It also enables high-speed DPA-resistant cryptographic protocols at speeds well over 100 Mbits per second, using the TeraFire crypto microprocessor for data security and anti-tamper applications.

Microsemi Aliso Viejo CA (949) 380-6100 www.microsemi.com

Single-Slot Rugged 3U VPX GPGPU/SBC Solution is CUDA-Based EIZO Rugged Solutions ( formerly Tech Source) introduced a high-performance NVIDIA CUDA-based 3U VPX graphics processor combined with an XMC form factor SBC to create a powerful single-slot 3U VPX GPGPU solution. There are two SBC configurations, the Condor GR3-C3 3U VPX and Condor GR3-X7 3U VPX supporting an Intel i3 or i7 processors, respectively. Other SBC configurations will be supported in the near future. The Condor GR3 3U VPX rugged conduction-cooled graphics module/SBC was developed for an airborne reconnaissance application where size, weight, and power (SWaP) were key considerations. Its versatile architecture allows for an easy upgrade path of both the graphics module and the SBC. The card also boasts a range of I/O options including 1 Gbps Ethernet, RS-232, USB, and SATA. The Condor GR3 3U VPX hosts the NVIDIA GeForce GTX-950M processor which offers 640 CUDA cores, 1,271 TFLOPs of floating point performance, and 4 GB of GDDR5 graphics memory. Multiple variations are available through customer configuration for balancing CPU and GPGPU performance requirements. The card targets those developing graphics and video processing applications using the NVIDIA CUDA architecture (CUDA 5.0) as well as the industry-standard OpenCL programming language (Open CL 1.2). The card is MIL-STD-810 compliant and supports PCI Express 2.0 (8 or 4 lane) and features DVI, VGA, and DisplayPort++ video outputs from the rear VPX P1/P2 connectors. EIZO Rugged Solutions also offers engineering support pre- and post-sale with the dedication to meet customer needs with design modification.

EIZO Rugged Solutions Altamonte Springs, FL (407) 262-7100 www.eizorugged.com

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Compact Rugged NAS Solution is Ideal for Unmanned Vehicles Phoenix International Systems has introduced the Phalanx II rugged Network Attached Storage (NAS) data storage system. The new product was introduced at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2017. The cigar box sized (82mm x 215mm x 226.5mm) Phalanx II is SWaP optimized and provides high performance, high capacity and secure data storage for Unmanned Aerial and Underwater Vehicles (UAVs, UUVs) and airborne ISR applications. This small form factor NAS weighs less than six lbs, provides up to 16 Terabytes of storage capacity with two Solid State Disks (SSDs) and supports RAID 0 (mirroring) and RAID 1 (stripping). Hot-swap removable drives are optionally available. System configuration and management is provided via a convenient web based GUI or CLI. Data security is a key component to any mass storage application and the Phalanx II addresses this with optional support for AES-256 encryption and hardware and/ or software triggered Data Elimination.

The Phalanx II allows networked devices to share and store data using all common network services: NFS (V3/V4), SBM/CIFS, FTP, TFTP, RSYNC and SSH. It supports a variety of network based file systems that allow multiple hosts to share and store information. Network connections are provided through five load balanced Gigabit Ethernet ports, and it can support dual optical 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for low EMI susceptibility.

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Phoenix International Phalanx II NAS is based on MLC or SLC Solid State Disk devices and features an Intel Broadwell (Xeon v4) CPU. Video interfaces include 1x VGA, 2x or 3x DVI Video Output. The unit provides monitoring via SMART, SNMP, EMAIL (Health/Performance). Operational temperature ranges is from -40 to +71 degrees C. The system complies with MILSTD-810G, MIL-STD-461F and MIL-STD704F/1275D. Adder IP KVM: Our no compromise, IP-based KVM matrix provides instant access and Phoenix International Systems Orange, CA (714) 283-4800 www.phenxint.com

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2U Network Server Sport Dual Xeon E5-2600 Processors WIN Enterprises has announced the PL-8120A high-performance networking server that features dual Intel Haswell/ Broadwell-EP processors. The processor is within the Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3/ V4 family and utilizes the Intel C612 series chipset (codenamed Wellsburg).

This represents the first in a family of related 2U rackmount servers from WIN Enterprises designed for maximum performance, scalability and functionality.

This processing platform provides high performance with up to 22 processing cores per CPU. The processor supports 55 Mbyte cache and total with 40 PCIe lanes.

Dawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PSC-6238 VITA The PL-8120A represents advancement 62 compliant 3U VPX Power in computing performance, system responsiveness with its dual Xeon Intel Supply for conduction E5-2600 V3/V4 series processors. The cooled systems is designed PL-8120A server supports sixteen DDR4 to operate in a military ECC Register DIMM (up to 2400 MHz) environment over a wide and maximum memory capacity of up range of temperatures to 512 Gbytes. With 80 PCIe lanes, the at high power levels. Up to PL-8120A supports up to 8 NIC modules and features multiple Ethernet module 800 Watts available power. bays for flexible port configuration, which can include 1/10/40/Gigabit fiber, Gigabit Onboard embedded RuSHâ&#x201E;˘ copper with optional BYPASS function. technology. Switchable Battleshort The maximum capable Ethernet ports are and NED functions. up to 64 GbE ports.

The strong IO elements of PL-8120A include two management Ethernet ports (one for management, another for option IPMI function), a console port, two USB ports, a Graph LCD module with keypad Dawn is the leader in VITA 62 (5 key), LEDs for power/ HDD/ 2x GPO. compliant power supplies for the In addition, the PL-8120A also supports mission critical market. Wide range of two front swappable 2.5 inch SATA standard features, highly configurable HDDs/SSDs and onboard Compact Flash through custom firmware. /m-SATA /M.2 2280 slot for basic network storage application.

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Embedded 4-Lane Transceivers Can Endure Wide Temperature Range Reflex Photonics has announced that its LightABLE LH Series SR4 full-duplex 4 lane transceivers have proven they can withstand 2,000 hours of “Lifetime Test” with no degradation of their performance. The successful completion of this industry-standard test is a first step in Reflex Photonics’ comprehensive space qualification program for its rugged transceivers. A group of modules from the LightABLE LH product series were submitted to a “Lifetime Test” against MIL-STD-883J, method 1005, cond. D, June 2013. The test is conducted at a case temperature of 100 degrees C, 15 degrees C more than the recommended maximum operating temperature.

These units were tested against Reflex Photonics’ final production test procedure on all 8 channels, at different intervals, and at 3 different operating temperatures: −40, 23, and 85 degrees C. Even after 2,000 hours of exposure to 100 degrees C temperatures, the LightABLE units maintained their high operational performance. The LightABLE products are parallel optic interconnects operating at 10 Gbps per lane and offering the following features: small SWaP, operation over a large temperature range (-40 to 85 degrees C), storage temperature from -57 to 125 degrees C. The LightABLE can be surface mounted or plugged on a board, and will support high temperature reflow process and operation with a link budget better than 13 dB. When products are exposed to temperature stresses in the field, Accelerated Life Testing is used to simulate product life.

Reflex Photonics Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada (514) 842-5179 www.reflexphotonics.com

Digitizer Series Provides Sensitivity Range from ±40 mV to ±0.5 V Spectrum has announced an option (M4i.22xx-ir40m) for its high-speed 22xx series of digitizer products that increases their sensitivity and therefore absolute resolution for low amplitude signals in the ±40 mV up to ±0.5 V range. The current products are optimized to acquire, store and analyze signals in the ±200 mV up to ±2.5 V range. Using this new low range option, the digitizer becomes more sensitive with around 0.3 mV (80mV/256) of resolution capturing the 50-mV signal with around three times more resolution than the more expensive 10-bit unit. Spectrum's 22xx series digitizers come in a variety of popular form factors including PCIe, PXIe and LXI. Spectrum Instrumentation Grosshansdorf, Germany +49 (0)4102 6956-0 www.spectrum-instrumentation.com

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High-Voltage Contactor is Suited for Harsh Environments TE Connectivity (TE) has released its KILOVAC K1K high-voltage contactor.

Designed for harsh environments, these contactors offer exceptional performance in new-technology higher voltage and current battery systems and energy storage systems. This contactor is among the smallest and lowest cost in the industry while maintaining high-voltage switching capabilities.

The KILOVAC K1K contactors are constructed to support up to 1000 V/1000 A in harsh and explosive environments, and are compact and lightweight for optimal performance without oxidation or contamination of contacts, even over periods of non-use. In addition to being hermetically sealed for long-lasting performance, the contactors feature bidirectional switching and can mount in any position.

TE Connectivity Berwyn, PA (610) 893-9800 www.te.com

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COMING NEXT MONTH Security, Ethernet and 1553 and Other Interconnect Winners Tried and true I/O schemes such as MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC 429 remain popular for pure control applications, but they’re bandwidth-limited by today’s standards. A slew of multipurpose communications protocols provide options to suit emerging needs, and Ethernet is a top contender among them. Articles in this section compare today’s crop of I/O schemes relevant to avionics and other military users.

Tech Recon Jeff’s Picks: Jeff Child’s Top Power Supply Innovations In our popular “Jeff’s Pick” section we directly leverage Jeff’s decades of experience covering the embedded computing and defense market. He will choose the top products in a different category each month and share his insights on why they’re significant in terms of design innovation, market relevance and technology leadership. May’s section looks at power convertor and power supply solutions.

System Development: Embedded Software for Safety Critical and Mission-Critical Systems The fact that military system functionally is now mostly software based means that the burden of security and safety-critical operation falls squarely in the embedded software realm. Such software has to be certified to the safety-critical standard DO-178B and its imminent successor DO-178C. But while those efforts seem costly, they pale in comparison to the huge costs associated with correcting software defects once they’re deployed on an airborne system. This section compares the tools and techniques available to help system developers meet real-time and safety-critical needs.

Data Sheet: PC/104 and PC/104 Family Boards Roundup PC/104 has become entrenched as a popular military form factor thanks to its compact size and inherent ruggedness. Sweetening the deal, a number of special enclosure techniques are used to outfit PC/104 for extremely harsh environments. This Data Sheet section updates readers on these trends, along with a look at the new PC/104 follow-ons: EPIC, PCI-104, PCI/104-Express and PCIe/104. Also provided is a product album of representative boards.

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The number of legacy systems that can be replaced by the AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air TaskOriented Radar (G/ATOR) system. Northrop Grumman has delivered the first low rate initial production (LRIP) G/ATOR system to the U.S. Marine Corps. G/ATOR successfully completed the system acceptance test procedure ahead of schedule, enabling the company to deliver the system to the Marines to support their fielding schedule. The initial LRIP contract was awarded in October 2014. Five additional systems will be delivered under this award. Software loads on the G/ATOR loads optimize the multi-mission capabilities of the radar to perform each mission.

1,600 HOURS

Number of flight hours the KC-46A Tanker program’s test aircraft have achieved to date with more than 1,200 “contacts” during refueling flights with F-16, F/A-18, AV-8B, C-17, A-10 and KC-10 aircraft. Boeing now has six aircraft in its KC-46 tanker test program, expanding its ability to complete ground and flight-test activities as it progresses toward first deliveries to the U.S. Air Force. The newest KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft, the second low-rate initial production plane, completed its first flight April 29. Its test activities will help ensure the KC-46 can safely operate through electromagnetic fields produced by radars, radio towers and other systems.

$258 MILLION Overall value of awards from the US Army to Oshkosh Defense to recapitalize its Family of Heavy Tactical Vehicles (FHTV). The company has been awarded multiple delivery orders from the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM). Oshkosh will bring the Army’s fleet of Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTT) and Palletized Load Systems (PLS) to its latest model configuration and the same zero-mile, zero-hour condition as new production vehicles. The recapitalization is for a total of 670 vehicles and the production of an additional 356 accompanying trailers.

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Range of the Indago 3 UAV, the newest version of Lockheed Martin’s Indago quadrotor unmanned aerial system (UAS), Indago 3, now enables military customers to securely complete sensitive intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions with the addition of TrellisWare Technologies MANET software products. Along with a low acoustic and visual signature during startup and flight, Indago 3 is also available in haze grey, which minimizes visual detection during missions. Depending on payloads, Indago 3 has a flight time of up to 50 minutes, a cruise speed of 25 mph and can operate at temperatures as low as 30-degrees below zero, and as high as 120 degrees.

2.5 MILLION Number of man-hours of work were conducted aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during its fouryear refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia. With the RCOH complete, the vessel got underway for sea trails on May 9. The four-day sea trails marks Abraham Lincoln’s first time underway since March 2013. The ship spent its last days in the shipyard completing a five-day “fast cruise,” May 2-7, making final preparations for its transit to Naval Station Norfolk.

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