
Military Re-learns the Importance of Electronic Warfare (EW)
Top commanders seek to embed EW capability at virtually all echelons as warfighters seek to make up for years of lost time.
Open Standards Need Open Minds
Components used in defence applications need to be not only reliable but rugged and, increasingly, interoperable with different ground and air vehicle systems. We talk to David Jedynak, chief technology officer at Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, about how the company helps its clients.
SOSA Technical Standard Will Benefit Systems of all Kinds
The standards currently being defined by the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Consortium will deliver many clear benefits to system integrators designing embedded sensor-processing systems. The SOSA Technical Standard will define common pinouts that foster and ease interoperability.
Networking the Battlespace
On November 2, 2020, Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW) announced the acquisition of Pacific Star Communications, Inc. (PacStar(r)) for $400 million in cash.
Managing Network Communications at the Edge of the Battlefield: The Single Pane of Glass Approach
NetOps and Cyber SA demand rapid and continuous innovation to meet evolving threats to Department of Defense (DoD) information dominance, as well as to address the challenges that program managers and technical operations personnel face with network management.
The Latest Trends in Rugged Computing
The proliferation of connected systems has been enabled by the U.S. military embrace of the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) revolution.
Challenges of Risk Management Framework for Cyber Security and Trusted Computing in Embedded Computing
The RMF establishes security and privacy controls, and contains more than 800 controls to select from, many of which don't apply to embedded systems.
Black Box in the Sky Functionality Coming to Honeywell FDR This Year
Honeywell and Curtiss-Wright are making fast progress in bringing ‘black box in the sky’ functionality to their nextgen flight recorders.
Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA): Enabling the Next Generation of Flexible and Adaptable Radar Systems
In order to keep up with the continued acceleration of new technology and to be able to protect the warfighter from the latest threats, it is essential that we can turn our deployed platforms into adaptable entities that can evolve over time and are not static. The SOSA [Sensor Open...
The Essentials of Trusted Computing and Cyber Security
U.S. military and government information security experts try to hold the line against determined hackers seeking to break into critical computing systems from foreign governments and non-state bad actors.