Enhancing Battlefield Precision with TITAN: A Leap Forward in Sensor Integration and AI-Driven Intelligence
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Life has a way of surprising you, even if you’ve spent years immersed in the world of Aerospace and Defense. Case in point: I recently bought a house in Virgin, Utah—just a stone’s throw away from a place that played a pivotal role in perfecting ejector seats during the early days of supersonic flight.
After World War II and near the end of the Korean War, the rise of supersonic jets raised a crucial question: How would pilots survive if they were ejected at such high speeds? Enter the testing ground in southern Utah, where the Air Force and Coleman Engineering teamed up to find answers.
The Army is already testing and moving forward with what they refer to as “Sensor-to-Shooter”.
In 1953, the U.S. Air Force awarded a $2 million contract to Coleman Engineering in Torrance, California, to build a test facility. They chose a mesa in southern Utah—right near my home—thanks to its mild weather and ideal conditions for year-round testing. Coleman went all in, constructing a 12,000-foot runway, which became the longest rocket sled track in the United States.
The goal? To simulate supersonic speeds by launching a sled at 1,800 mph, then ejecting a test dummy into a 1,500-foot drop into Virgin River Valley below. At the time, Coleman was setting land speed records with a massive 9,400-pound sled that broke the 1,800 mph barrier. These tests helped refine ejection systems and saved countless lives.
The facility’s history is intertwined with major military research centers like Edwards AFB, Wright-Patterson AFB, and Indian Springs AFB. In the early years, the crashtest dummies weren’t sophisticated enough to accurately measure the effects of ejection, so for a short time, monkeys and pigs were used as stand-ins—giving the mesa its nickname: Flying Monkeys Mesa. Today, the facility is still operational, owned by Collins Aerospace (part of RTX), and continues to refine ejector seat technology.
Now, my kids, who are avid mountain bikers, refer to the mesa as Flying Monkey Mesa. It’s a fitting name—given the history of ejecting monkeys, and the fact that every year, the world’s best mountain bikers hurl themselves off the same mesa during the Red Bull Rampage event. Watching these fearless riders launch off the cliffside, it’s almost as if the mesa has come full circle—swapping military test dummies for gravity-defying bikers.
It got me thinking: could the flying monkeys in The Wizard
of Oz have inspired the name of the mesa? Since that movie came out nearly a decade earlier, it seems like an unlikely connection—though it’s possible the iconic flying monkeys had some influence on the nickname we use today.
As the test facility remains off-limits to the public, it’s interesting to see how Red Bull’s marketing has come to overshadow its aviation legacy. Yet, in a way, it’s poetic. Both the early ejection tests and today’s mountain biking stunts share a thrilling, high-speed connection. And as a resident of Virgin, I can’t help but marvel at how a place once used to save lives is now the backdrop for some of the most daring mountain biking feats in the world. It’s a tribute to the history of safety innovation—and a whole lot of adrenaline.
The final nine of Australia’s full fleet of 72 F-35A Lightning II aircraft have arrived at RAAF Base Williamtown in New South Wales, marking a significant milestone in Air Force’s ability to defend Australia.
The F-35A aircraft fleet, including EA-18 G Growlers and F/A-18F Super Hornets, is the cornerstone of Australia’s air defense and strike capability, as outlined in the 2024 National Defence Strategy.
As a multi-role fighter, the F-35A can perform air-to-air and air-to-surface missions and utilize stealth technology, electronic protection, electronic attack, and advanced countermeasures to maximize lethality and survivability.
Defense has rapidly introduced this import-
ant capability since the first two F-35A Lightning II aircraft arrived in Australia on December 10, 2018.
The arrival of the final nine aircraft also demonstrates an enhancement of Australia’s F-35A fleet’s warfighting capability. These aircraft were the first in the fleet to receive Technology Refresh 3, enabling Block 4 upgrades that will support the new and enhanced capabilities required to meet the evolving threats of the future.
Chief of Air Force, Air Marshal Stephen Chappell DSC, CSC, OAM, said the delivery of the final aircraft was a key milestone for the Royal Australian Air Force, one that was achieved thanks to the contributions of multiple stakeholders.
“The delivery of the final F-35A Lightning II aircraft is a practical demonstration of the Air Force’s ability to deliver highly effective air power as part of an integrated and focused force, in line with the National Defence Strategy,” Air Marshal Chappell said.
“Australians should be proud that our Air Force is flying the most advanced multi-role fighter in the world.
“Australian defense industry has been integral to the successful introduction of the F-35A, with more than 75 Australian companies having shared in over $4.8 billion in contracts to support production, sustainment and follow-on development, including as part of the F-35 global supply chain.”
Core Systems Partners with Avaya to Enhance U.S. Navy Fleet Communication Systems
Core Systems, a leading provider of rugged server solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Avaya, a global leader in unified communications, to bolster the communication capabilities of the U.S. Navy Fleet. This partnership builds on Core Systems’ extensive track record of supporting the Navy’s Interior Communications Systems for over 12 years with rugged and reliable server solutions.
Core Systems’ servers are a cornerstone of Navy Fleet operations, powering critical applications like Unified Communications Voice, Voicemail, Conferencing, DECT wireless systems, and Systems Administration. These rugged servers support the 12CK closed tactical voice system, delivering secure and dependable communication for at-sea missions.
Core Servers: The Backbone of Navy Fleet Systems
Core servers are recognized as MAC-1 systems, actively engaged during high-stakes at-sea conflicts. With redundant processing and reliable signaling, these servers ensure uninterrupted communication for the warfighter.
The partnership will enhance support for major Navy Fleet programs, including:
• IVN (Interior Voice Network): Providing scalable, rugged voice communications for large-deck platforms.
• IVCS (Interior Voice Communications Systems): Enabling secure and efficient voice communication systems across the fleet.
• FFG (Fast Frigate): Delivering next-generation communication infrastructure for modern frigates.
Synergy Between Core Systems and Avaya
By combining Core Systems’ rugged computing solutions with Avaya’s expertise in unified communications and collaboration tools, the partnership aims to deliver advanced communication systems tailored to the Navy Fleet’s
evolving needs. The companies will ensure that the Navy’s voice and data systems remain robust and reliable in even the most challenging maritime environments.
“We are honored to partner with Avaya to strengthen the U.S. Navy’s communication infrastructure,” said Chris Schaffner, President of Core Systems. “Our rugged servers are engineered to withstand the demands of military environments, providing unmatched reliability to support warfighters during critical operations.”
Why Core Systems and Avaya Matter for the Navy
For over a decade, Core Systems’ rugged servers have supported the Navy Fleet’s Interior Communications Systems, ensuring operational excellence. The collaboration with Avaya highlights a commitment to advancing the Navy’s Unified Communications systems, including voice, voicemail, and conferencing, focusing on redundancy and Security.
The United States Army’s Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) demonstrated its ability to connect with any sensor or effector by successfully integrating with the emerging U.S. Army Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC) system, a ground-based weapon system designed to protect assets such as command centers and airfields. During the flight tests held at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, the IBCS system:
Expert:
Kenn Todorov, vice president and general manager, global battle management and readiness, Northrop Grumman: “With IBCS’ innovative, game-changing technology, the U.S. Army can test emerging systems like IFPC to help modernize air and missile defense. IBCS’ ready-
now capabilities connect any sensor and any effector across the battlespace, allowing the most
effective weapon to take out the threat.”
Details on IBCS:
IBCS is a revolutionary mission command fire control system that unifies current and future systems regardless of source, service, or domain. Through its network-enabled, modular, open, and scalable architecture, IBCS gives warfighters capabilities not previously available by fusing sensor data for a single actionable picture of the full battlespace. This ready-now capability gives warfighters more time to decide how best to defeat threats and is a foundational element for enabling joint and coalition multi-domain operations.
IBCS is in production, fielded in Poland, and planned for deployment in the Defense of Guam as part of the U.S. Army program of record for integrated air and missile defense modernization. IBCS has demonstrated its ability to integrate with a wide range of sensors and shooters, including Patriot, Sentinel, F-35, Common Anti-Air Modular Missile, Giraffe, Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor (LTAMDS), and other sovereign capabilities.
Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company. Our pioneering solutions equip our customers with the capabilities they need to connect and protect the world and push the boundaries of human exploration across the universe. Driven by a shared purpose to solve our customers’ most challenging problems, our employees define possible every day.
BAE Systems awarded a $85 million contract to deliver Network Tactical Common Data Links to
information needed to accomplish its missions across the fleet.”
NTCDL enhances situational awareness and tactical battlefield advantage of the U.S. Navy through real-time and simultaneous networked operations.
In 2024, the U.S. Navy awarded BAE Systems an $85 million production contract to deliver additional Network Tactical Common Data Link (NTCDL) systems. NTCDL will enable real-time voice, data, imagery, and full-motion video exchange from various air, surface, subsurface,
NTCDL is a multi-platform solution for all U.S. Navy Common Data Link (CDL) requirements. It is a modular, scalable system designed to increase link capacity and embrace waveform evolution. NTCDL supports multiple, simultaneous, networked operations using currently fielded CDL equipment and next-generation manned and unmanned platforms. It enables operators to transmit and receive real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data from multiple sources and exchange command and control information across separate
and man-portable sources. Systems under the company’s current contract are presently being installed on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and will be installed on new Constellation-class frigates.
“We have designed and produced a faster next-generation system to meet the demands of our customers’ evolving connectivity mission requirements,” said Amber Dolan, Adaptive Communications and Sensing director at BAE Systems. “BAE Systems is committed to providing the U.S. Navy with a trusted and secure solution to transmit and receive the critical
or independent networks. This allows for effective communication among forces to maintain an advantage.
This award modifies an existing BAE Systems contract to extend the program’s total performance period by three years. As the original developer and manufacturer of the NTCDL system, BAE Systems has the engineering and production capabilities to meet the program’s urgent fielding timeline requirements.
RTX’s Collins Aerospace enables disparate network communication to expand situational awareness at Keen Sword
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, successfully demonstrated a new cross-domain networking capability to improve situational awareness for forces in the initial stages of a conflict. Collins enabled the relay of unclassified data from non-traditional sensors into a fire network supporting
Marine Corps Command and Control objectives during exercise Keen Sword hosted by III Marine Expeditionary Force.
Non-traditional sensors, including commercial nodes, run on different networks than government systems, requiring data movement across machines to provide users with an integrated view of key data. Collins automated data routing across different security classification levels and used satellite networks to provide a secure transport layer between the non-traditional sensors in a configuration that took less than an hour to set up and run.
“We must provide decision-makers with the best information from any data source and rapidly reconfigure systems to support changing mission needs,” said Elaine Bitonti, vice president and general manager for the Connected Battlespace & Emerging Capabilities portfolio at Collins. “During the exercise, Collins enabled expeditionary machine-to-machine data transfers to close decision chains quickly.”
Taking #1 Spot in AI Challenge Demonstrates ManTech’s AI Leadership.
ManTech, a premier provider of AI, systems engineering, and mission-focused technology solutions, has won “first place” in the U.S. Navy’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Portfolio Optimization Challenge.
“ManTech has been delivering AI to clients for more than a decade, and today, we build AI into everything we do,” said Dr. Douglas Orellana, ManTech’s Vice President of Intelligent Engineering. “Winning this prestigious award showcases how we are shaping the future in exciting new ways that raise the benchmark on successful AI.”
MSPS is built on ManTech’s Engineering Data Fabric (EDF), which incorporates the company’s digital thread and smart agents to find and connect to a wide range of data through a simple user interface. EDF leverages semantic integration across tool-agnostic domain engineering data sets, providing the foundation for MSPS to streamline engineering processes and workflows.
This recognition highlights the groundbreaking work of ManTech Data Scientist Nicole Manno and Engineering Fellow Tammy Bogart. Their winning solution showcased the power of ManTech’s Smart Portfolio Solution (MSPS) and ManTech Enterprise Smart Assistant (MESA), demonstrating how generative AI can rapidly identify and replace obsolescent systems data. Their approach significantly reduces processing time and costs, underscoring ManTech’s ability to solve mission-critical challenges quickly and precisely.
Generative AI can equip the EDF with smart agents like interactive chatbots, empowering users – including those without expertise in different languages – to query and reason easily with complex engineering data. When deployed across a system lifecycle, the EDF finds mission-critical obsolescent data, supplants it with vital replacement data, and ensures the reliability and performance of the system essential to operational readiness.
Large enterprises often lack ready access to their obsolescent data. Adding to that challenge, each vendor they use might display that data differently. MSPS and MESA can find this data in minutes for analysis, helping clients perform analysis to discover any data obsolescence, find replacements, and determine the impact of system updates—all at a significantly lower cost than conventional methods.
The Navy AI Challenge is sponsored by Palmetto Tech Bridge (PTB) and the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command’s Program Executive Office Manpower, Logistics, and Business Solutions (NAVWAR PEO MLB). The final contest judging and award was conducted recently at the Eastern Defense Summit event in Charleston, SC.
awarded a $987 million contract to support F-16 Foreign
Leidos announced a new contract to provide critical engineering and sustainment services for Foreign Military Sales customers of the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 Fighting Falcon. The contract was awarded by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, which supports the F-16 System Program Office. The single-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a maximum value of $987 million and a 10-year performance period.
“We leveraged our corporate investments in AI and predictive analytics to provide our customer with a data-informed platform to increase efficiency, visibility, and accountability,” said Roy Stevens, Leidos National Security Sector president. “This win underlines Leidos’ commitment to supporting the U.S. Air Force and our allies, ensuring high resilience and interoperability.”
Under the contract, Leidos will provide post-production support through critical engineering and sustainment services necessary for the continued operation and improvement of the F-16 weapon system. The Leidos Web Based Management System will enable the customer to maintain real-time visibility of repair asset tracking status for the repair and return lifecycle. This technology is designed to enhance the customer’s repair and return process, improve engineering and technical support resolution, and help reduce diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages.
The F-16 has been procured by over 25 nations worldwide, supporting a global fleet of approximately 2,200 active aircraft.
SEALSQ and WISeSat Unite to Launch Six New Generation Satellites in 2025 Equipped with Advanced Post-Quantum Technology
The first one of the WISeSat new generation satellites was successfully launched on January 14
SEALSQ Corp, a company specializing in Semiconductors, PKI, and Post-Quantum technology hardware and software products, today announced that it will launch six next-generation satellites in 2025 in cooperation with WISeSat AG (“WISeSat”), both subsidiaries of WISeKey International Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX: WIHN). Each satellite will feature incremental advancements in post-quantum cryptography and secure communication technologies, further solidifying its leadership in satellite-based IoT solutions.
The first of the new generation satellites will be launched on January 14, 2025, from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, in partnership with SpaceX.
This ambitious deployment is part of a groundbreaking initiative to establish a secure, scalable satellite constellation supporting machine-to-machine (M2M) communication via space. Powered by SEALSQ’s post-quantum semiconductors and WISeSat’s expertise in IoT satellite communication, the constellation is designed to meet the growing demand for resilient and scalable solutions across industries such as logistics, precision agriculture, and critical infrastructure.
The constellation operates on a Satel-
lite-as-a-Service (SataaS) model, providing industries with seamless access to cutting-edge satellite capabilities without requiring extensive infrastructure investments. The constellation delivers unparalleled solutions for businesses requiring robust and adaptive satellite services by ensuring secure IoT data transmission and real-time automation.
This collaboration reinforces SEALSQ and WISeSat’s commitment to advancing secure communication technology and leveraging space as a platform for innovation. With six launches planned for 2025, the satellite network will continuously integrate the latest technological advancements, ensuring it remains at the forefront of Security, scalability, and reliability.
NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
NVIDIA Project DIGITS With New GB10 Superchip Debuts as World’s Smallest AI Supercomputer Capable of Running 200B-Parameter Models
NVIDIA unveiled NVIDIA® Project DIGITS, a personal AI supercomputer that provides AI researchers, data scientists, and students worldwide with access to the power of the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell platform.
Project DIGITS features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, which offers a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning, and running large AI models.
GB10 Superchip Provides a Petaflop of Power-Efficient AI Performance
The GB10 Superchip is a system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell architecture and delivers up to 1 petaflop of AI performance at FP4 precision.
GB10 features an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU with latest-generation CUDA® cores and fifth-generation Tensor Cores, connected via NVLink®-C2C chip-tochip interconnect to a high-performance NVIDIA Grace™ CPU, which includes 20 power-efficient cores built with the Arm architecture. MediaTek, a market leader in Arm-based SoC designs, collaborated on the design of GB10, contributing to its best-in-class power efficiency, performance, and connectivity.
The GB10 Superchip enables Project DIGITS to deliver powerful performance using only a stan-
Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS and then deploy them seamlessly on NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, accelerated cloud instances, or data center infrastructure.
This allows developers to prototype AI on Project DIGITS and then scale on cloud or data center infrastructure, using the same Grace Blackwell architecture and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
Project DIGITS users can access an extensive library of NVIDIA AI software for experimentation and prototyping, including software development kits, orchestration tools, frameworks, and models available in the NVIDIA NGC catalog and the NVIDIA Developer portal. Developers can fine-tune models with the NVIDIA NeMo™ framework, accelerate data science with NVIDIA RAPIDS™ libraries, and run common frameworks such as PyTorch, Python, and
With Project DIGITS, users can develop and run inference on models using their desktop system, then seamlessly deploy them on accelerated cloud or data center infrastructure.
“AI will be mainstream in every application for every industry. With Project DIGITS, the Grace Blackwell Superchip comes to millions of developers,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Placing an AI supercomputer on the desks of every data scientist, AI researcher, and student empowers them to engage and shape the age of AI.”
dard electrical outlet. Each Project DIGITS features 128GB of unified, coherent memory and up to 4TB of NVMe storage. With the supercomputer, developers can run up to 200-billion-parameter large language models to supercharge AI innovation. In addition, using NVIDIA ConnectX® networking, two Project DIGITS AI supercomputers can be linked to run up to 405-billion-parameter models.
Grace Blackwell AI Supercomputing Within Reach
With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune, and test models on local Project DIGITS systems running
Jupyter notebooks.
To build agentic AI applications, users can also harness NVIDIA Blueprints and NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, which are available for research, development, and testing via the NVIDIA Developer Program. When AI applications are ready to move from experimentation to production environments, the NVIDIA AI Enterprise license provides enterprise-grade Security, support, and NVIDIA AI software product releases.
Enhancing Battlefield Precision with TITAN: A Leap Forward in Sensor Integration and AI-Driven Intelligence
Enhancing Battlefield Precision with TITAN: A Leap Forward in Sensor Integration and AI-Driven Intelligence
Buck Biblehouse, Senior Editor
The modern battlefield is evolving, and with it, the technology that supports warfighters on the ground. One of the most promising innovations in the U.S. Army’s arsenal is the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) system, a next-generation platform designed to revolutionize how intelligence is gathered, processed, and acted upon. The TITAN system integrates advanced sensors from multiple domains—space, air, and terrestrial layers—and leverages cuttingedge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to deliver real-time, actionable intelligence that significantly reduces the sensor-to-shooter gap. This capability allows for faster, more precise targeting, enhancing both lethal and non-lethal military operations.
At its heart, TITAN is designed to fuse data from a wide range of sensors deployed across different layers of the battlefield, including satellite, aerial, and ground-based platforms. By accessing this vast amount of real-time data simultaneously, TITAN provides an
unprecedented level of situational awareness and situational understanding. This is particularly crucial in contested environments, where threats can emerge from multiple directions, and the ability to make informed decisions quickly can mean the difference between success and failure.
The integration of advanced AI/ML capabilities ensures that the data gathered from diverse sources is not only processed quickly but also converted into actionable insights. TITAN automates target recognition and geolocation processes, streamlining decision-making and dramatically reducing sensor-to-shooter timelines. This automated process is a key enabler of long-range precision fires, which are essential in modern warfare where engagements often occur at extended distances.
TITAN represents a collaborative effort between some of the most innovative companies in the defense and technology
sectors, including Palantir Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Anduril Industries, L3Harris Technologies, Pacific Defense, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Strategic Technology Consulting, and World Wide Technology. These companies bring their expertise in sensor technologies, software development, and systems integration to the table, ensuring that TITAN is not only a powerful tool for intelligence gathering but also an adaptable and scalable system that can evolve with changing technological and operational requirements.
Palantir, as the prime contractor for the program, plays a crucial role in fusing the data from various sensors and providing the software infrastructure needed to process and analyze this information. The company’s experience in developing AI-enabled solutions for the military is a key asset in delivering real-time, actionable intelligence to the warfighter. Additionally, Palantir’s focus on usability means that the system is designed with feedback from soldiers at every stage of its
At its heart, TITAN is designed to fuse data from a wide range of sensors deployed across different layers of the battlefield, including satellite, aerial, and ground-based platforms.
As the volume of data generated by modern sensors increases exponentially, it becomes increasingly difficult for human analysts to process and extract useful information in real time.
development, ensuring that the technology is accessible and intuitive in high-stress combat scenarios.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are integral to the success of the TITAN system. As the volume of data generated by modern sensors increases exponentially, it becomes increasingly difficult for human analysts to process and extract useful information in real time. AI and ML algorithms are deployed within TITAN to automate this process, allowing the system to identify targets, assess threats, and make predictions without requiring constant human intervention.
For example, TITAN’s AI algorithms can automatically track potential targets, calculate their location, and even predict their movement, all based on sensor data collected from space, air, and ground-based platforms. This automation reduces the cognitive burden on soldiers and command staff, enabling them to focus on higher-level strategic decisions
rather than sifting through vast amounts of raw data. The result is faster, more accurate decision-making in the field, which is critical in time-sensitive combat situations.
Moreover, the system’s ability to fuse data from multiple sensors helps to create a more comprehensive and accurate intelligence picture. By integrating information from a variety of sources, including satellite imagery, aerial reconnaissance, and ground-based sensors, TITAN provides a level of situational awareness that was previously unattainable. This holistic view of the battlefield enables commanders to make more informed decisions, enhancing both operational effectiveness and the safety of troops on the ground.
One of the most significant challenges in modern warfare is the cognitive burden placed on soldiers and commanders. The sheer volume of data generated by sensors and other intelligence-gathering tools can overwhelm even the most experienced personnel. TITAN
addresses this issue by streamlining the dataprocessing workflow and presenting the most relevant information in a way that is easily digestible.
The system’s human-machine interface (HMI) is designed to reduce cognitive overload by presenting information in a clear, concise, and actionable format. Visual augmentation, including enhanced displays and targeting information, helps soldiers understand their environment quickly and accurately, reducing the time needed to make decisions. Additionally, the integration of AI helps prioritize threats and opportunities, ensuring that commanders and soldiers are always focused on the most important tasks at hand.
TITAN is more than just a software solution; it is a fully integrated ground station that includes both hardware and software components. In the first phase of development, the team behind TITAN created a full-scale working concept vehicle, TITAN ALPHA,
which demonstrated the system’s modularity, manageability, and performance in the field. This concept vehicle, developed in just six months, proved the ability of the team to quickly deliver innovative solutions to meet the Army’s evolving needs.
The TITAN system is designed to be scalable and expeditionary, meaning it can be deployed rapidly in a variety of environments, from traditional military bases to austere forward operating bases (FOBs) in remote locations. This flexibility is critical for modern warfare, where operations can take place in highly dynamic and unpredictable settings. The system’s modular design allows it to be easily upgraded and adapted to meet the changing demands of future conflicts, ensuring that it remains effective in the face of evolving threats.
One of the primary goals of TITAN is to reduce the sensor-to-shooter (S2S) timeline, which refers to the amount of time it takes to detect a target, identify it, and engage it. In modern warfare, where speed and precision are essential, even a small reduction in this timeline can significantly increase the
effectiveness of military operations. TITAN achieves this by automating much of the data processing and target identification process, allowing military units to engage targets more quickly and accurately.
By shortening the S2S timeline, TITAN enhances the Army’s ability to conduct longrange precision fires, ensuring that targets can be neutralized before they have a chance to evade or retaliate. This capability is especially important in contested environments, where threats may be hidden or disguised, and the ability to act swiftly can prevent a tactical disadvantage.
TITAN is not just a technological advancement; it represents a shift in how the U.S. Army conducts operations in multi-domain environments. The system’s ability to integrate and process data from various domains—space, air, land—ensures that commanders have a comprehensive understanding of the battlefield at all times. This multi-domain integration is essential for modern warfare, where threats can emerge from any direction and the speed of decision-
making is crucial.
As the Army continues to refine the TITAN system, it is clear that this platform will play a critical role in future combat operations. By harnessing the power of AI, machine learning, and advanced sensor integration, TITAN is paving the way for a new generation of intelligent, adaptable, and highly effective military systems. With its potential to revolutionize battlefield awareness, targeting precision, and decision-making speed, TITAN stands as a key enabler of the Army’s ongoing modernization efforts and its commitment to maintaining battlefield superiority in an increasingly complex and dynamic world.
In conclusion, TITAN represents a significant leap forward in military technology, combining cutting-edge sensor integration, AI-powered intelligence processing, and innovative hardware design to enhance battlefield performance. As the system continues to evolve, it promises to provide the U.S. Army with the tools needed to confront emerging threats with unprecedented speed, precision, and effectiveness.
TITAN is not just a technological advancement; it represents a shift in how the U.S. Army conducts operations in multi-domain environments.
Defense Industry Outlook in 2025
Defense Industry Outlook in 2025
AI gets the job done, better together with Industry 5.0, drones go to sea as ships get smaller, and cybersecurity requirements ramp-up
AI gets the job done, better together with Industry 5.0, drones go to sea as ships get smaller, and cybersecurity requirements ramp-up
By Rob Mather, VP Aerospace & Defense at IFS
2025 is all about human machine collaboration. In this article, Rob Mather, VP Aerospace & Defense at IFS, explores four key trends shaping the defense industry in 2025:AI-powered MRO to help human technicians, Industry 5.0 humanizes defense manufacturing, autonomous systems flip naval warfare on its head, and A&D manufacturers get serious about cybersecurity.
Prediction 1: Industrial AI steps up to address the defense MRO skills shortage
The ever-present skills gap in defense MRO continues apace in 2025. The defense industry is seeing an influx of next-gen platforms, as more global defense forces adopt the F-35 and completely new aircraft, such as the the B-21 Raider (a more technologically advanced subsonic strategic bomber) enter the fray, bringing the need for an entirely new maintenance knowledge base.
The workforce numbers are plain to see. According to War on The Rocks the U.S. Air Force alone is currently short 1,800 maintenance personnel, with the
U.S Government Accountability Office highlighting continuing challenges meeting aircraft readiness targets. To help mitigate these issues, Deloitte views 2025 as a pivotal year for defense organizations to consider the role AI technologies could play in enhancing traditional talent strategies.
Utilizing Industrial AI to enhance humanmachine interaction
One obvious application of AI is Optimization which offers several key Industrial AI use cases that can directly help organizations accomplish more with existing resources including:
• Schedule Optimization: Increasing the maintenance yield by scheduling all activities to as close to their deadline as
The ever-present skills gap in defense MRO continues apace in 2025.
possible. Overall, this means over the lifetime of an asset, less total maintenance will be done, actually reducing the total work for technicians.
• Task Order Optimization: AI can analyze data to ensure the order in which tasks are performed is optimized to make the most of the resources and technicians available and perform maintenance in the most efficient order, minimizing unproductive time.
• Optimization of Technician Assignment: MROs can even optimize the assignment of the technician to the task, dependent on the technician’s skills, availability of assets requiring maintenance, and even geography/location on the aircraft, again, lowering unproductive time and maximizing utilization of the most valuable personnel.
New forms of interacting with systems extends into the aftermarket as well, once assets are manufactured and deployed in the field.
Beyond optimization, giving technicians access to specialized AI agents through mobile devices can help them quickly navigate complex technical information and manuals, particularly those for new and less familiar aircraft types, as well as reduce time spent troubleshooting by providing root cause and repair suggestions, while enhancing data entry—thereby empowering a single technician to accomplish more.
Prediction 2: Industry 5.0 humanizing defense manufacturing
It’s not just in the hangar where technology is directly helping human workers in the defense industry. Defense manufacturing in 2025 will see increasing adoption of the core principles of Industry 5.0—and its humanizing influence on factory processes, including how workers train for and execute work on the factory floor and beyond.
Meet the Meta-Operator – the defense manufacturing worker of the future
Some schools of research describe a “Meta-Operator”, defined an industrial worker that follows the principles of Industry 5.0 and interacts with Industrial Metaverse applications and with his/her surroundings through advanced Extended Reality (XR) devices.
XR is already being used as part of training, allowing them to encounter scenarios that are very rare in the real world and therefore take much more time to accrue experience against in conventional programs. Deloitte flags in its A&D Outlook for 2025 with “emerging technologies such as
extended reality, the industry will likely begin to enhance the training environment and shorten the time it takes to bring employees up to speed.” The use of XR is already making its way onto the floor though as well. Digital overlays comparing final product to spec, instructions overlayed on the product itself providing visual next steps, accessing the health information of the manufacturing machinery being used in their field of vision, and even gesture control to access technical documentation, are all examples of XR empowering a more efficient and effective worker.
New forms of interacting with systems extends into the aftermarket as well, once assets are manufactured and deployed in the field. Companies including BeastCode are developing 3D models of assets, such as in-service Naval ships. So, when technicians are executing maintenance on the ships, they can navigate straight to the part in question via the 3D model to look at it, investigate manipulate it, and understand how it interfaces with other parts on the ship. It forms an intuitive navigation model—where technicians are able to move around the 3D model to easily navigate the system and access all the pertinent information, taking digital twins to the next level for an experience straight out of science fiction.
The impact of drones and uncrewed systems on naval warfare is clear to see. We have no further to look than the conflict in Ukraine to see that no longer are multibillion-dollar aircraft fleets or submarines
required to disable large ships. Ukraine has disabled up to one-third of the Russian Black Sea fleet largely utilizing small remotely piloted sea drones. As a result, the makeup of naval fleets and the design of naval vessels is changing. More of the ships being developed in the future will be autonomous or have minimal crews based on the capability of automated systems available today. Conventional Aircraft Carriers are being joined by UAV carriers, exemplified by recent orders and testing of UAV carriers from Portugal, Türkiye, and the U.K. These carriers provide the ability to launch droneattacks from sea. We are learning that bigger does not necessarily mean better.
Uncrewed systems are also high priority in the U.S. DoD Replicator initiative to augment “the way we fight, using large masses of uncrewed systems which are less expensive, put fewer people in the line of fire, and can be changed, updated, or improved with substantially shorter lead times.”
Autonomous capabilities will be in highdemand IFS customer Austal is working closely with the United States Navy and Royal Australian Navy and was recently awarded a $44 million autonomous design and construction contract by the U.S Navy, to deliver autonomous capabilities to the Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF13).
This ship is a multi-use military platform capable of rapidly transporting troops and their equipment, supporting humanitarian relief or operational efforts, and can operate in shallow waters. But supporting this level of autonomy means being able to collect and
analyze vast amounts of data from sensors and other sources and produce actionable insights that improve mission success. As such, while capital ships will continue to form the core of large navies world-wide, more and more of the fleet mass will begin to shift to ships with minimal crews, and smaller, faster, cheaper, uncrewed vessels.
Prediction 4: The year A&D Manufacturers get serious about Cybersecurity
With increasingly digitized assets come increasingly tightened digital compliance requirements across the defense industrial base—and cybersecurity is top of mind for defense departments, none more so than the U.S. Department of Defense. In October 2024, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program Final Rule was published and is expected to come into effect in mid-2025, with the Five Eyes nations aligning their own cybersecurity programs to the CMMS framework.
The U.S. DoD outlines: “The purpose of CMMC is to verify that defense contractors are compliant with existing protections for federal contract information (FCI) and controlled unclassified information (CUI) and are protecting that information
at a level commensurate with the risk from cybersecurity threats, including advanced persistent threats.” With the Five Eyes nations looking align to CMMC requirements, organizations in the defense supply chain who have not prioritized compliant levels of cybersecurity run the risk of losing contracts and their place in the defense industrial base.
Cybersecurity requirements compliance gets real: FedRAMP, CMMC, and more!
Imposing more stringent requirements across the defense industrial is needed to harden digital defense against external threats such as IP theft can seriously erode hard won technological advantages on the battlefield.
Alongside the CMMC requirements is the need for cloud-based solutions to adhere to Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring. Although not necessarily a true requirement for all cases, FedRAMP is fast becoming a de facto security standard for doing business in the U.S. defense supply chain, but there is also a ensure this success, defense organizations need to make sure
they are supported by manufacturing software architecture that adheres to military regulations now and into the future. With a secure managed cloud or hybrid enterprise software environment for critical compliance areas such as CMMC, FedRamp or ITAR, defense organizations can operate knowing compliance is assured.
As usual, the defense industry is at the cutting edge of new principles, technologies and assets as we move into 2025. AIpowered solutions are set to revolutionize maintenance operations, while Industry 5.0 principles will humanize manufacturing processes. The evolving landscape of naval warfare, driven by the rise of drones and autonomous systems, is reshaping ship design and operational strategies. Underlining these digital developments, stringent regulations such as CMMC are driving a heightened focus on digital security.
By embracing these trends, defense organizations can optimize their operations, enhance workforce capabilities, and ensure the security of their critical assets.
As usual, the defense industry is at the cutting edge of new principles, technologies and assets as we move into 2025.
GuRu Wireless Demonstrates World’s First Modular, Fully Synchronous Wireless Power Transfer System
A new generation of the company’s phased array architecture delivers the highest power at a distance.
Guru Wireless, Inc., the leading provider of adaptive, long-range wireless energy transfer solutions, introduces a new generation of its wireless power transfer architecture – the world’s first truly modular, large-scale, fully synchronous wireless power transfer system operating at 24GHz. The technology platform enables flexibility in building a variety of systems capable of delivering watts to kilowatts of wireless power over distances of up to several kilometers.
The GuRu Wireless architecture is based on the industry’s smallest proprietary 24GHz RF System-on-Package (SoP) modules that use the company’s proprietary RFICs assembled into arrays, or “tiles”. These tiles form the nodes of a network of synchronous phased array antennas to meet various use-case performance needs. The highly scalable platform uses proprietary Smart RF Lensing to focus the RF energy and enable steering and focusing of the power beams for unprecedented accuracy and efficiency.
The newly developed system includes precise and reliable timing synchronization, the key underlying technology that enables seamless operation of the tiled transmitters and directly leads to higher power capability.
“Wireless power transfer is unlocking
new possibilities across a wide range of applications,” said Narbeh Derhacobian, CEO of GuRu Wireless. “For example, with GuRu’s technology, persistent ISR drones can fly untethered from a power source indefinitely, enhancing security for our armed forces. Our latest-generation architecture is purpose-built to enable rapid development and prototyping of wireless power beaming at a distance, specifically tailored for national security and defense applications.”
“GuRu Wireless’ innovative power transfer technology has the potential to enable new capabilities across multiple domains,” said Chris Moran, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Ventures. “The advancement of wireless energy transmission aligns with our commitment to harness cutting-edge technologies to enable more agile, resilient, and connected systems to strengthen national security.”
About GuRu Wireless
GuRu Wireless, Inc. is the leading adaptive, long-range wireless energy transfer solutions provider. The company’s proprietary 24GHz millimeter-wave technology enables precise and targeted transmission and recovery of milliwatts to kilowatts of wireless power over significant distances with unmatched performance. Its small, lightweight, tile-able modules, incorporating a highly integrated custom ASIC, intelligent algorithms, and custom software, can be scaled for specific applications, resulting in solutions that are best in class for power and distance. Founded in 2017 by a team of scientists and engineers from Caltech, the company has successfully completed several proof-of-concept (PoC) projects with leading customers in industrial, commercial, and defense applications. GuRu Wireless is making wireless energy transfer possible – and accessible – so that together with its customers, it can develop new applications and enter new markets where batteries or wires are impractical.
Abaco Systems has introduced the SBC3513 3U OpenVPX single board computer (SBC) aligned with the Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) technical standard at the AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition. Offering increased processing performance and bandwidth over previous models, the SOSA-aligned I/O-intensive SBC features the new Intel® Xeon® W processor, formerly known as Tiger Lake H. With eight cores operating at 2.6GHz, it offers 64 GB of DDR4 RAM and up to 480 GB of nVME SSD.
Designed with a data plane supporting 100GbE and PCIe Gen4 to the backplane, the rugged, commercial-off-the-shelf SBC3513 is well suited for demanding command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C4ISR) and industrial applications.
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“The SBC3513 is a technology insertion for our popular SBC3511 and offers many features, but with enhanced performance and speed capabilities,” said Mike Underwood, Abaco division vice president and business unit manager. “It is another great example of how Abaco provides our customers the ability to seamlessly integrate new, higher performance hardware technologies while retaining form, fit, and function and maintaining application software compatibility.”
Like the SBC3511, the new SBC offers onboard Xilinx Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC’s builtin security capabilities, including an unclonable function (PUF), user-accessible hardened cryptographic blocks, asymmetric authentication, side-channel attack protection, and other silicon-based AT features. It also features a thermal management design that allows deterministic performance even at extended temperatures typical of deployment on space-constrained platforms.
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Crystal Group, Inc., a trusted designer and manufacturer of rugged, highperformance edge compute solutions, will be debuting at AFCEA WEST later this month
The company will debut its cutting-edge, small-form-factor embedded computer, the RE1600M, and a hyper-converged data storage solution, the RE4000.
The RE1600M is purpose-built for amphibious operations and is IP68-rated, which allows for seamless AI inferencing for applications such as unmanned surface vessels and vehicles. This rugged solution is also integrated with NVIDIA Ampere architecture, which features 2048 NVIDIA CUDA® cores and 64 tensor cores for fast and reliable data transmission.
“Our team at Crystal Group is excited
and so proud to introduce the RE1600M into our portfolio,” said Jennifer Groschen-Draves, Principal Program Manager at Crystal Group.
“It was designed specifically for the U.S. Navy’s unmanned surface vessel initiatives. These USVs, paired with the rugged technology provided by Crystal Group, represent a major leap forward in modern naval operations, offering improved operational capabilities, real-time data analysis, and greater mission flexibility in the most challenging maritime conditions. This new solution reinforces our commitment to delivering reliable, mission-critical technology to the U.S. Navy while meeting the needs of today’s dynamic defense environment.”
Pro Spec Enclosures Come in 3 Depths and 2 Colors, Hold 3,000 Pounds
L-com, an Infinite Electronics brand and a supplier of wired and wireless connectivity products, has just added a new line of 42U server rack cabinets in black or white. The EIA 19-inch-wide cabinets come in three depths, allowing them to hold high-density networking equipment for large-office data centers and small-office SOHO setups. They can also be deployed in IT closets, audiovisual setups, production studios, broadcasting, and more.
All new floor cabinets have sturdy, welded frames made of cold-rolled steel. They hold 3,000 pounds of equipment or 2,400 pounds on the included locking caster wheels. Security locks are on all sides, including the front door, the dual rear French doors, and two locking half-size panels on each side. All the models also have adjustable mounting rail depths to accommodate a wide array of gear, which is attached with M6 cage nuts.
So that they can be tailored to your specific needs, the 42U server rack cabinets are offered with four main options:
The RE4000 is an Air Transport Association carry-on compliant, overhead bin packable system designed to meet any cybersecurity need for enabling data acquisition and storage in extreme environments. The unit has a flexible CPU architecture, including high-performance Intel® Xeon® 5/6 scalable processors, which excel in meeting the evolving demands of Crystal Group customers’
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The first option is cabinet depth—the three choices are 31 inches (800 mm), 39 inches (1000 mm), or 47 inches (1200 mm). The shallowest model has an adjustable rack depth of 6 to 21.5 inches, the midsize is 6 to 29.5 inches, and the deepest adjusts from 6 to 37.5 inches.
For the second option, you can choose front doors that are either made of perforated metal for added ventilation or tempered glass for easier monitoring of components. The third option concerns the design of the top panel. Some models have a top with a large rectangular opening for quick installation of a fan panel. Other models have, instead, a top panel with multiple large slots for cable access.
The fourth option is color—traditional black or L-com’s more recently released white finish. White cabinets have a slightly more modern aesthetic and enhance a room’s spaciousness, especially near light-colored walls.
“Cabinets with this much vertical capacity make for convenient, centrally located setups,” said Product Line Manager Tim Houghton. “But with the three depths we offer, 42U can now fit in smaller spaces as well.”
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congatec is updating its conga-SA8 SMARC modules: The low-power Computer-on-Modules (COMs) are now available with the latest Intel Core 3 processor generation. This new CPU technology delivers a significant performance boost, making the energy-efficient, credit-card-sized SMARC modules ideal for performance-hungry edge applications and low-power system consolidation.
With the new conga-SA8, all edge computing applications operating within the extended temperature range of 0°C to +60°C can now achieve higher performance and improved energy efficiency. These modules support clock frequencies of up to 3.9 GHz and feature a configurable TDP of 9 W or 15 W. As with the previous versions, the AI instruction sets, Intel AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions 2) and Intel VNNI (Vector Neural Network Instructions) ensure fast processing of deep learning inferences. The integrated Intel Graphics further support INT8 inference with up to 32 execution units (EUs), significantly improving object recognition and graphics processing compared to previous generations. Users benefit from accelerated AI-supported workloads, which, combined
with system consolidation, contribute to significant increases in the efficiency and productivity of their applications.
“The virtualization-ready modules with firmware-integrated hypervisor facilitate the consolidation of multiple application-specific workloads, each with their own operating systems, which are operated in isolation from each other on the conga-SA8. With up to 8 cores, a low power SMARC module can host various applications that previously required multiple dedicated systems. This allows users to significantly reduce the number of devices and make their solutions much more reliable, cost-effective, and sustainable,’ explains Florian Drittenthaler, Product Line Manager at congatec.
Typical areas of application include low-power applications such as point-of-sales, industrial PCs, AI-accelerated edge systems, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and semi-autonomous vehicles in logistics. The many connection options and high energy efficiency also predestine the conga-SA8 modules for use in handheld medical devices and medical diagnostics, such as blood analyzers.
The conga-SA8 SMARC modules are available in five different processor variants with up to 16 GByte LPDDR5-4800 memory with in-band ECC for high data security. 2 x 2.5 GbE with TSN support and the optional wireless module for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 enable comprehensive horizontal and vertical networking. 4x PCIe Gen3 lanes, i2x USB 3.2 Gen2, 6x USB 2.0, SATA Gen3.2, I2C, UART, DP and 12x GPIO ensure extensive connectivity. Regarding operating systems, congatec supports Windows 11 IoT Enterprise, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC, and LTS Linux.
congatec also offers the conga-SA8 SMARC module as an application-ready aReady.COM. It can be pre-configured, for instance, with pre-installed and licensed ctrl X OS from Bosch Rexroth, Ubuntu Pro, and Real-Time Hypervisor for integrated tasks such as HMI, AI, IoT data exchange, firewall functionality, and maintenance/management features. In addition, a congatec’s comprehensive ecosystem with evaluation and production-ready application carrier boards, customized cooling solutions, documentation, comprehensive design-in services, and high-speed signal integrity measurements simplify application development.
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nVent SCHRORFF Launches Positive Retraction Card-Lok
nVent Electric plc announced the release of the Positive Retraction Card-Lok, which is used in rugged environments when a printed circuit board (PCB) must be reliably removed from a chassis in the field.
The positive retraction mechanism allows the Card-Lok to disengage from the Chassis wall
Android and Linux-based Smart TFT displays simplify embedded development
Designed and developed for ease of use and innovation.
Review Display Systems (RDS) has announced a new range of Android and Linux-based smart displays from DWIN, a leader in advanced display solutions. The innovative display modules have been designed to aid and assist embedded system development and provide engineers with easy-to-use tools to create user-friendly, interactive graphical user interfaces for industrial, security, healthcare, and retail applications.
by eliminating the stiction. The Card-Lok can then be retracted, and the PCB can be removed from the chassis, allowing access to vital electronics.
These standard COTS or modifiable versions are drop-in replacements of the nVent SCHROFF 260, 265, and 280 Calmark & Birtcher lines. In addition, these Positive Retraction Card-Loks provide better clamp force and thermal management than their standard Card-Lok
The DWIN smart TFT display range is based on robust Android and Linux platforms, offering flexibility and scalability for a wide array of applications. The display modules combine inplane switching (IPS) TFT LCD displays, built-in projected capacitive (PCap) touchscreens, and integrated Rockchip processors, which deliver vibrant, colorful display images and a fast, responsive user experience.
The DWIN Smart TFT display modules offer a wide range of scalable screen sizes, from compact 5.0-inch modules for portable mobile devices to 15.6-inch large-format displays for industrial process control panels and signage applications. Display resolutions from 800 x 480 pixels (WVGA) up to 1920 x 1080 pixels (FHD) are supported.
series equivalents.
Designed and manufactured in an AS9100-certified factory in San Diego, California, the Positive Retraction Card-Lok meets VITA (46, 48.2, 48.4, 48.5, and 48.8) and SOSA standards, as well as DFARS, JOSCAR, and ITAR compliance. It also meets advanced requirements for shock and vibration resistance.
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Supporting cross-platform development, design engineers can choose between Android or Linux for system development. For application-rich environments, Android-based displays enable developers to use familiar programming environments such as Android Studio to build custom applications. Linux can be used for lightweight, secure applications where designers can access open-source Linux software development kits to create tailored applications.
DWIN DGUS is a PC-based, customizable development environment that enables rapid user interface design without extensive coding. The DGUS development system provides a dragand-drop interface that enables designers of all skill levels to create graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with minimal coding.
Justin Coleman, display business manager at RDS, said, “The new DWIN Android and Linux-based smart displays allow developers to bring their ideas to life quickly and efficiently with an easy-touse intelligent display solution featuring user-friendly programming capabilities. The highly versatile smart TFT displays are ideal for design engineers seeking to bring products to market in a timely and efficient manner.”
DWIN Smart TFT display modules can enable design engineers to create and develop graphics-based interactive systems for industrial process control, smart systems, med-tech devices, retail signage, and many more. Review Display Systems offers dedicated customer support, extensive documentation, and example projects to enable the design and integration into a wide range of applications.
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EIZO Releases Low Latency Ultra HighDefinition XMC Video Capture Card for Enhanced Situational Awareness in Military & Defense Systems
• EIZO’s Condor VC300xX XMC video capture card supports up to eight video inputs
• The card is ideal for SWaP-sensitive applications and is designed to VITA 47.3
EIZO Rugged Solutions Inc., a leading provider of ruggedized graphics and video processing hardware, has introduced the Condor VC300xX – an XMC form factor Ultra High-Definition (UHD) video capture card for C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) applications.
The Condor VC300xX card can accommodate up to eight SDI video inputs, supporting a mix of 12G, 3G, and HD-SDI resolutions. Additionally, it includes two CVBS capture channels
Spectrum Control introduces a new standard product to its RF+ System in Package (SiP) platform. The SCRS-00-1001 RF+ SiP down converts wideband millimeter wave (mmWave) signals between 18 GHz - 40 GHz into standard 2 GHz - 18 GHz bands for direct sampling and processing. This first standard SiP expands Spectrum Control’s RF+ SiP platform that delivers unrivaled miniaturization of integrated mi-
with independent audio support. The Condor VC300xX’s multiple SDI inputs and support for various video formats enable consolidated video capture from numerous sensors and cameras to support 360-degree situational awareness and tracking. Its high resolution and low latency make it ideal for mission systems, where decisions must be made quickly based on incoming video intelligence.
The Condor VC300xX supports PCI Express, ensuring high-speed data transfer to the host system for efficient, real-time processing and analysis of UHD video. With a low power consumption of under 20W, it is ideal for SWaP-sensitive (Size, Weight, and Power) applications such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other ISR applications.
John Payne, Senior Product Manager at EIZO Rugged Solutions, said, “The Condor VC300xX is a sin-
gle-slot XMC card that can capture and transfer up to eight videos.
feeds simultaneously in real-time, enabling operators to assist in quick threat detection and response.”
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crowave assemblies (IMAs) and was designed, tuned, and tested inside the company’s new RF+Digital development pipeline, which reduces the typical IMA productization timeline by 75%.
The mmWave block converter SiP includes 10 RF amplifiers, two digital attenuators, an RF detector, and 11 RF filters. It is tuned, monitored, and managed using an Altera FPGA through an open standard software interface for easy integration into a system and for in-mis-
sion adaptation. It also includes integrated power management using a single 9 VDC input.
It is ideally utilized as a co-processor to direct sampling devices and FPGAs or as a frontend to Spectrum Control’s 3U VPX microwave wideband tuner/transceiver. It can be used in any mmWave application where size, weight, power consumption, and cost (SWaP-C) are paramount, such as smart antennas. Because it is a surface-mount device, engineers can model and integrate it into a more efficient design and manufacturing process for overall time-to-market benefits.
“Spectrum Control’s family of RF+ SiPs is the culmination of our interdisciplinary team of RF and digital technologists, material scientists, and process engineers working together to create mass-producible, surface-mount solutions that can be easily integrated into guidance, jamming, and other high-volume electronic warfare systems,” said Ian Dunn, Spectrum Control chief technology officer. “These innovative, miniaturized solutions can also play a key role in providing unified signal conditioning and conversion at the edge to enable rapid data-to-effect along with ML and AI.”
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Gemstar Expands RoboRack® Half Rack Protection Hard Cases with New 3U and 9U sizes for Sensitive Electronics Storage and Transprot
Gemstar Manufacturing’s RoboRack® military-grade half-rack mount cases are now available in new 3U and 9U sizes. RoboRack half-rack cases are designed to protect electronics from shock, vibration, moisture, dust, and other contaminants in applications such as military, industrial, and commercial vehicles, airplanes, railcars, and other mobile applications. Designed, tested, and manufactured in the United States, these hard cases can be used off-the-shelf or configured as needed for specific equipment.
RoboRack half-rack cases are being introduced in two new sizes: 3U and 9U. These join the existing 5U and 7U product cases, which were introduced in early 2024. “With four sizes to choose from, RoboRack cases are the perfect solution for transporting sensitive electronics,” said the Presi-
dent of Gemstar Manufacturing, said Mark Hedin. “RoboRack half-rack cases are engineered to control shock and vibration, ensuring that electronics are unharmed and perform as expected upon arrival.”
RoboRack half-rack cases are airtight, configurable, and built to withstand years of use and wear. They offer stacking compatibility, fully removable lids that hang on the sides, and have a payload of 20 to 150 lbs. They’re built with heavy-duty latches, spring-loaded handles, and recessed hardware and come with edge wheels and an extendable handle for additional flexibility in moving electronics.
These military-grade cases meet or exceed MIL-STD 810G and military Long Life Reusable — case (LLRC) standards. RoboRack half-rack cases can be customized to meet size, load, and g-rating (g-force) specifications.
All RoboRack half-rack cases are manufactured with Gemstar’s proprietary Robomold® technology utilizing GSR™(LLDPE) high-performance resin. Robomold technology provides precision plastic solutions with fully automated capabilities, increasing product consistency, repeatability, material control, and quality. This technology allows Gemstar to produce cutting-edge plastic solutions, such as multi-layer products not previously available in conventional rotational molding.
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Warren Controls Highlights Type 436 Naval and Marine Pressure Regulators
Superior corrosion resistance and versatile pressure handling capabilities
Warren Controls highlights the Type 436 Naval and Marine Pressure Regulators, designed for shipboard seawater service. These regulators are engineered to meet the rigorous demands of naval and marine environments and offer unparalleled performance in various shipboard systems.
The Type 436 regulators are available in sizes ranging from 1/4 to 8 inches, making them suitable for various applications, from small-scale setups to larger shipboard systems. With pressure classes of 150, 250, and 700, these regulators can handle diverse pressure requirements encountered in marine operations.
Engineered for compatibility with different piping systems and military specifications, the Type 436 regulators feature multiple end connection options, including MIL-F-20042 Flange, MIL-F-1183 SBUE, and SWUE, with limited ANSI Flange options. The body is constructed from Bronze (ASTM B61), while the trim utilizes stainless steel and copper nickel, ensuring excellent corrosion resistance in seawater applications.
With Cv values up to 200, the Type 436 regulators can efficiently manage a wide range of flow rates. Designed to operate at temperatures up to 165°F, these regulators are well-suited for typical marine environments.
The Type 436 regulators are the only products designed specifically for naval and marine applications, meeting shock and vibration qualification specifications. They are ideal for use in various shipboard systems, including fire mains, desalination plants, cooling systems, flushing systems, sonar dome fill operations, and decontamination stations.
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