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The Department of Defense (DoD) is undergoing a progressive transformation towards a Net-Centric enterprise, in support of data and service interoperability across various services and agencies to enhance mission-oriented decision making capabilities.

Green Hills Software, Inc. —

The availability of the gold standard SKPP-level security marks a world-changing event for the safety of technology and the information and critical systems upon which they (and we) depend.

Duncan Young —

Image fusion systems offering comparison of side-by-side real-time images from multiple sensors are ideal for deployment on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or light armored vehicles.

John Wemekamp —

IP has demonstrated vulnerabilities to a number of different attack types at routers, switches, and servers. Consequently, this is where COTS vendors' products can be used to advantage, introducing defensive technologies to protect sensitive network assets.

Sharon Schnakenburg —

A wrapup of the latest military technology contracts, news, and views.

Edwin de Jong, Ph.D. —

A new middleware-based integration framework is abstracting the details of point-to-point data transmission away from the individual components of the UAV, resulting in development of a UAV that is easily adapted to different mission parameters. The OMG's DDS middleware standard is key in this feat.

Andy Finch —

Direct spray enclosures are environmentally isolating electronics while satisfying payload trends, cutting development time, and managing the technology life cycle on airborne platforms in unpressurized space.

Barry West —

Military electronics must meet increasing demands for security and reliability while adhering to an effective business model. But which is best: FPGAs, traditional cell-based ASICs, or structured ASICs?

Chris A. Ciufo —

Cheaper flash storage is finding its way into solid-state disks, onto boards, and ultimately into deployed defense systems that roll, float, and fly.

Matthew Hause —

Considering the large variety of military architectural frameworks in existence such as DoDAF and MODAF, among others, a way to unite their differing requirements has recently been born: the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM), which works toward a standardized UML/SysML profile for these and other military frameworks.

Hermann Strass —

RapidIO represents a leap forward in bandwidth and service diversity for military apps featuring higher demands on embedded hardware interconnects than PCI or Ethernet can handle.

Datalight, Inc. —

NAND and NOR technologies each have distinct advantages for developers and end customers, and there is a growing trend toward designing systems capable of converging these technologies.

Joe Pavlat —

Many young boys, including myself, who were interested in science avidly read the books that were part of the long-running Tom Swift science fiction series. One of my favorites, "Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone," was written in 1914. Science fiction, of course, became science fact. Meanwhile, our increasingly wireless world has large ramifications for everyone these days.

Marianne Crowe —

Corporations must systematically reuse code rather than throw away the investment and start from scratch.

Chris A. Ciufo —

My first reaction was “Well, duh, of course software is a product”. But the grassroots movement toward “software as a product line” might be as fundamental to developers and users as Eclipse and Linux have become.