Volume 31, Issue 3

Photo (above): The Navy plans to upgrade all Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers, shown above, with new Aegis combat system, with Flight IIA ships getting a variant of the SPY-6(v) air and missile defense radar.
Sensors

Shipboard electronics steams into the 21st century

March 25, 2020
U.S. Navy is on track for increases in surface ship and submarine building, unmanned vehicles development, shipboard weapons, sensors, and digital signal processing.
Abaco’s VP430 is a 3U VPX COTS solution that enables beamforming, sensor processing, and radar signal processing.
Trusted Computing

The shrinking world of small-form-factor embedded computing

March 25, 2020
Industry experts say open standards are helping drive development in small-form-factor battlefield and aerospace hardware like system-on-chip and single-board computers.