Military + Aerospace Electronics - September 2022

56 Pages·2022·19 MB·English

Electromagnetic weapons Standards for military embedded computing
PG. 4 PG. 26
SEPTEMBER 2022
SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR
ELECTRONIC
WARFARE
Processing power and signal rejection highlights enabling
technologies for electronic warfare projects.
PG. 16
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Contents
SEPTEMBER 2022
VOL. 33, NO. 9
Features
16 SPECIAL REPORT
Sensor- and signal-processing
for electronic warfare
Greater processing power, advanced filtering, and better
signal rejection are among the digital signal processing
enabling technologies for electronic warfare projects today.
26 TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
SOSA and open standards for
military embedded computing
New open-architecture design guidelines seek to reduce costs
and facilitate rapid technology insertion; now many new products
and compliance tests will help SOSA prove its worth.
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2 TRENDS 42 ELECTRO-OPTICS WATCH
4 NEWS 44 PRODUCT APPLICATIONS
34 RF & MICROWAVE 47 NEW PRODUCTS
37 UNMANNED VEHICLES
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U.S. military to put its money
where its mouth is in half-billion-
dollar anti-tamper program
Anti-tamper technology — or the ability to pre- encryption to keep software operating systems out
vent an adversary from stealing design secrets, of the wrong hands.
reverse-engineer critical components, or dissect- With this in mind, the U.S. Air Force is formu-
ing important technologies just to see what makes lating a plan for a 10-year half-billion-dollar initia-
them tick — long has been a hot-button issue for tive called Anti-Tamper Executive Agent Program
the U.S. Department of Defense. Office Multiple Award Indefinite Delivery/
A big emphasis of anti-tamper capabilities has Indefinite Quantity Contract (MAC ID/IQ) to
resulted from loss of intelligence data to a thriving develop anti-tamper enabling technologies to foil
BY John Keller black market for counterfeit electronic components, enemy efforts to steal U.S. technology to gain access
EDITOR IN CHIEF and it seeks to shut-down the kind of technology to its secrets.
theft that has been the dark underside of the micro- The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at
electronics revolution. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, has released
The push for anti-tamper technologies goes a draft request for proposal (AT2022DraftRFP) for
back at least 21 years — and probably for much MAC ID/IQ, which seeks acquisition approval to
longer than that — to the so-called Hainan Island issue a $499 million 10-year contract solicitation
incident in April 2001 when a U.S. Navy EP-3E to procure anti-tamper product and technology
ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft was gather- development of anti-tamper solutions in secure
ing electronic information off the coast of China. processing; volume protection and sensors; and
People’s Liberation Army Navy sent up a J-8II cryptographic protection.
jet fighter to intercept the four-engine Navy turbo- Secure processing will develop products and
prop. The jet fighter collided with the Navy recon- technologies to establish and maintain secure
naissance aircraft, and forced the EP-3E to make processing in single-board computers and other
an emergency landing on the Chinese island of electronics.
Hainan near Vietnam. This will involve a secure physical boundary
Navy personnel aboard the surveillance plan around critical components in products to prevent
tried to destroy sensitive technology and gath- non-privileged users from gaining access to the crit-
ered data, but on landing, the Chinese government ical components or information in line-replaceable
impounded the EP-3E, took it apart to learn its units (LRUs) and shop-replaceable units (SRUs).
secrets, and eventually returned the plane and its Companies interested were asked to email com-
on-board systems in various stages of disassembly. ments and questions by 9 Sept. 2022 to the Air
It was this incident that kicked U.S. anti-tamper Force’s Sara Smith-Custer at sara.smith-custer@
efforts into high gear, with projects to erase data us.af.mil, and Jonathan Mashburn at jonathan.
on hard disks permanently at the push of a but- [email protected]. More information is online
ton, devices to destroy computers if their covers at https://sam.gov/opp/7a7c65049adb4032b991d-
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Officials of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in tems in enemy weapons systems like nuclear-tipped ballistic
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NASA reaches out to industry to conduct
on-orbit CubeSat technology demonstrations
BY Jamie Whitney
WASHINGTON
- The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space in Delaware, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Administration (NASA) has announced additional opportunities South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
through the agency’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) for cubesat CubeSats are part of a class of research spacecraft called
developers to conduct scientific investigations and nanosatellites. These small satellites are built to
NASA is looking for cubesat
technology demonstrations in space and contrib- standard dimensions (Units or “U”) of approx-
designers to conduct on-orbit
ute to the agency’s exploration goals. imately 10 by 10 by 11 centimeters. CubeSats
technology demonstrations
The next round of NASA’s CSLI opportuni- supported by this launch initiative include vol-
between 2024 and 2027.
ties is providing access to low-Earth orbit for U.S. umes of 1U, 2U, 3U, 6U, and 12U or volumes
educational institutions, nonprofits with an edu- that add up to these specified dimensions.
cation or outreach component, and NASA centers and programs for CSLI will not select any CubeSat missions proposing
workforce development. Developers can gain hands-on experience to deploy or release parts that are smaller than 1U in size
designing, building, and operating these small research satellites. due to trackability, space situational awareness, and orbital
Applicants must submit proposals no later than 18 Nov. 2022. debris concerns.
NASA anticipates making selections by March 2023 with flight To date, NASA has selected 211 CubeSat missions, 148 of
opportunities set for 2024 to 2027, although selection does not which have been launched into space, with more than 20 mis-
guarantee a launch opportunity. sions scheduled for launch within the next year. The selected
Designs that include restrictive orbit requirements may limit CubeSats represent participants from 42 states, the District of
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Applicants are responsible for funding the development of the
CSLI is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program, based at the agency’s
small satellites.
Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For more information about NASA’s CubeSat
CSLI encourages participation by minority serving institu-
Launch Initiative, please visit https://go.nasa.gov/CubeSat_initiative.
tions and is seeking participation particularly from organizations
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