The existing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) effort is providing lowered-cost access to leading-edge device technologies essential for military systems, but semiconductor manufacturers must do more ...

AIS Rugged HMI Displays Reduce Development Risks, Costs and Time to Market for Military Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, and Interoperability (C 4 I 2) Applications IRVINE, ...

The move to aircraft fly-by-wire from manual flight controls has put strains on the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components in avionics systems. The probability of failure is increasing as ...

Ever since mobility emerged as a Defense Department priority a couple of years ago, observers have wondered how a diverse array of mobile computing and communications technologies would be able to ...

The Army's standard supply system is the well-established backbone for requisitioning replacement parts and returning unserviceable items for repair. Yet, for commercial off-the-shelf information ...

Real-time operating systems (RTOS) are the foundation software for computing systems. They manage the computers’ other software programs and orchestrate these programs’ requests for services. And they ...

The current driving force in the military and defense environment is to keep legacy systems operating longer, or the replacement of legacy systems with new systems that emulate one or more legacy ...

Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software-defined radio (SDR) products have been traditionally used for military radar and communication applications due to their performance and design flexibility.