Leveraging New Technologies for Mil/Aero Electronic Systems

Maintaining a strategic military advantage requires prompt development of effective deployable electronic solutions to meet new and anticipated threats, and developing new systems that leapfrog the capabilities of the opposing force.

When new, critical technology becomes available, it must be quickly integrated into deployable systems for effective use by defense forces. Many of these technologies include RF products supporting wider bandwidths and higher frequencies, techniques to provide radiation tolerant devices, faster data converters capable of direct RF sampling as well as new processors for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and adaptive signal processing engines to handle a much greater number of complex, wideband antenna and sensor signals. This article provides several examples of how these technologies and new standards are impacting embedded system architectures to significantly boost overall performance levels, speed development cycles, and lower lifecycle costs.