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Military EMBEDDED SYSTEMS RUGGEDIZATION, SPACE CONSTRAINTS AN ONGOING CHALLENGE FOR MILITARY _cots John McHale Mid-year MES update University Update The future of microelectranics Special Report Data in the military metaverse Industry Spotlight Optimizing the edge July/August 2022 | Volume 18 | Number 5 > Dealing with a real-world thermal triple threat By Kevin Griffin, Atrenne ANALOG DEVICES AHEAD OF WHAT’S POSSIBLE™ Power for your world. Simplify your designs by leveraging ADI's highly integrated power solutions. Integrated Local Design Easy to Use Solutions Support Tools ae Bel Find your competitive advantage at al i analog.com/power f=. m SPIDER THE WORLD’S SMALLEST BATTLEFIELD MISSION SYSTEM WITH FULLY FEATURED CPU, GPU, STORAGE & HIGH SPEED 1/O HOST CPU FEATURES - Intel® Xeon® W up to 8 cores (Tiger Lake) - 64GB DDR4 ECC DRAM - 4x Thunderbolt™ 4 with Display Port and 100W per port - NVIDIA® RTX-5000 GPGPU (PCle Gen4) - Dual 100GigE Ethernet ports with Fiber Interface - Quad M.2 sites to support Wi-Fi, Mil STD-1553, Cell and GPS - Dual M.2 80mm for high performance SSD HOST Al WORKSTATION 1/0 STORAGE SWITCH 12/24” DISPLAY X9CPU&HS I/O The X9 modular, scalable, distributed architecture simplifies applications that require rugged high-performance computing, high-definition video, sensor processing, artificial intelligence (Al) battlefield edge processing, storage, display, and I/O in a small, rugged enclosure with amazing performance per dollar per Watt. All X9 products are modular, expandable or scalable, with Thunderbolt™ 4 technology and our patented LightBolt™ 40Gbps connections in copper or fiber, with optional 100W per port power for up-/down-stream sensors and system expansion. GENERAL MICRO SYSTEMS, INC. BE 41 General Micro Systems, Inc products are proudly designed and manufactured in the U.S.A. " www.militaryembedded.com Military EMBEDDED SYSTEMS July/August 2022 Volume 18 | Number 5 COLUMNS Editor's Perspective 9 Happenings: MOSA conference, legal-tech education, Dan Taylor By John McHale University Update 10 Program puts national focus on the future of microelectronics By Lisa Daigle FEATURES SPECIAL REPORT: Leveraging Big Data for military applications 12 The critical data thread tying together the military supply chain, logistics, and equipment support By Matt Medley, IFS Mil Tech Insider 11 Rightsizing processor performance for today’s DSP applications By Denis Smetana . i . . _ 16 Data in the military metaverse: enterprise terrain management for training TH E L. ATEST By Pete Morrison, BlSim 20 Big data on mobile networks: the role of software-defined radio (SDR) Guest Blog By Brendon McHugh and Kaue Morcelles, Per Vices MIL TECH TRENDS: Trusted computing/securing data-at-rest 26 Ruggedization, space constraints an ongoing challenge for military data-at-rest By Dan Taylor, Technology Editor INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT: Rugged computing & thermal management 28 VPX: The state of the ecosystem 2022 By Jerry Gipper 43 Key to JADC2: Converging strategic and tactical communications By Mark Hutchins, Raytheon Intelligence & Space Editor's Choice Products 44 By Mil Embedded Staff Connecting with Mil Embedded 46 By Mil Embedded Statf 34 Optimizing the edge through distributed disaggregation WEB RESOURCES By Anton Chuchkov, Mercury Ss Subscribe to the magazine or E-letter 38 Dealing with a real-world thermal triple threat Live industry news | Su products ‘ eee http://submi stemsmedia.com By Kevin Griffin, Airenne WHITE PAPERS — Read: 40 Unified network communications management: the next step to realizing MOSA https://militaryembedded.com/whitepapers By Dominic Perez, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions WHITE PAPERS — Submit: http://submit.opensystemsmedia.com All registered brands and trademarks within Military : a Military Embedded Systems magazine are the reer > ON THE COVER: Oroperty of their respective owners, vit GOING The battlefield is filled with people, drones, and other systems gathering g i © 2022 Opensystems Media P Teams of critical data. Unlike in a commercial environment, there's no © 2022 Military Embedded Systems sprawling data center with lots of fans to keep the equipment cool while providing multiple layers of security to protect this data from falling into the wrong hands. This situation creates challenges that many companies are hard at work trying to solve. Published by: ts | @military_cots 4 July/August 2022 MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS www.militaryembedded.com OpenSystems ‘in| https://www_linkedin.com/groups/1864255/ BEHLMAN LEADS THE PACK’AG. FIRST PROVEN VPX POWER SUPPLIES DEVELOPED IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE SOSA™ TECHNICAL STANDARD Behlman introduces the first test-proven VPX power supplies developed in alignment with the SOSA Technical Standard. Like all Behlman VPXtra® power supplies, these 3U and 6U COTS DC-to-DC high-power dual output units feature Xtra-reliable design and Xtra-rugged construction to stand up to the rigors of all mission-critical airborne, shipboard, ground and mobile applications. VPXtra® 1000CD5-1QI “Tl wn VPXtra® 700D-IQI 6U power module developed in 3U power module developed in alignment alignment with the SOSA Technical Standard : with the SOSA Technical Standard Delivers 1050W DC power via two outputs 7 Delivers 700W DC power via two outputs VITA 46.11 IPMC for integration with system management VITA 46.11 IPMC for integration with system managernent Co) 1:319 POWER GROUP Behiman Electronics The Provider SOSA™ and lago design and The Open Group Certification Mark” are trademarks of The Open Group in the Uniled States and other countries. ADVERTISERS ADVERTISER/AD TITLE zB AirBorn— Small, modular, & fast with speeds up to 25 Gbps! 2 Analog Devices, Inc. - Power for your world 7 Atrenne — Rugged & ready when you are Behiman Electronics, Inc. — Behlman leads the pack again! 15 Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (AES) — Enabling next-gen flight processing 19 Elma Electronic — Leaders in open standards. Enabling the warfighter with OpenVPX 3 GMS — X9 Spider: The world's smallest battlefield mission system 27 GMS — Executive Speakout: Conducting an orchestra of heat 8 Herrick Technology Labs — Extend your transceivers to 44 GHz 2 Interface Concept — Prioritize a unique sourcing 48 Mercury Systems, Inc. - The next big thing in RFSoC is here; and it's only 2.5"x 4" 31 Phoenix International — Phalanx Il: The ultimate NAS 31 Verotec — Electronic enclosures 37 Z Microsystems, Inc. — Executive Speakout: Reliability is the ‘oundation of rugged systems EVENTS AUSA 2022 Annual Meeting & Exhibition October 10-12, 2022 Washington, DC https://meetings.ausa.org/annual/2022/ 59th Annual AOC International Symposium & Convention October 25-27, 2022 Washington, DC https://www.crows.org/mpage/2022HOME Aerospace Tech Week Americas November 8-9, 2022 Atlanta, GA https://www.aerospacetechweek.com/americas/ WEBCASTS Info JADC2 and Data-Centricity: Creating a Joint Posture of Deterrence Sponsored by RTI https://bit.ly/3RK2zW6 (this is an archived webcast) Applications for Future SOSA Conformant Solutions Sponsored by Aitech and Curtiss-Wright https://bit.ly/3zelFwd (this is an archived webcast) 6 July/August 2022 Military EMBEDDED SYSTEMS GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR TECHNOLOGY EDITOR - WASHINGTON BUREAU CREATIVE DIRECTOR WEB DEVELOPER EMAIL MARKETING SPECIALIST WEBCAST MANAGER VITA EDITORIAL DIRECTOR John McHale [email protected] Lisa Daigle lisa. 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Hayden Rd. #105 » Scottsdale, AZ 85257 ® Tel: (480) 967-5581 REPRINTS WRIGHT'S MEDIA REPRINT COORDINATOR MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Kathy Richey [email protected] (281) 419-5725 www.militaryembedded.com atrenne.com rugged & ready when you are OpenVPX [configured and ready to ship] enclosures backplanes system integration custom solutions VME VPX™ CompactPCI SOSA™ OpenVPX™... trenne A Celestica Company PERFORMANCE-CRITICAL Atrenne Computing Solutions | [email protected] | 508-588-6110 SOSA” Release 1.0 Aligned HIGH PERFORMANCE SOSA" ALIGNED SOLUTIONS > SOSA" ALIGNED 3U VPX 11-SLOT CHASSIS > KEY FEATURES * Four payload slots * 100 GBps switch slots + IOSBC slot + Radial clock slot * Two power supply slots HTLv-C3-11 * Two PCle Gen4 switch slots > SOSA” ALIGNED 3U VPX > KEY FEATURES SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIOS + Frequency Range: 2 MHz — 20 GHz - HTLv-13 / HTLv-23: BW = 80 MHz, per channel 4 - HTLv-43 / HTLv-53: BW = 2.0 GHz, per channel | : | + 2 ea. or 4 ea. Channels, per Transceiver Module es a * High Performance Superhet Design i’ 5 : Oh + 82 dB+ Spur Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) “ y Sal + Selectable RX / TX per channel + Open Architecture with Available SDK HTLv-13 HTLv-23 HTLv-43 HTLv-53 > SOSA” ALIGNED 3U VPX POSITION, > KEY FEATURES NAVIGATION, TIMING + GPS REFERENCE MODULES * INS * Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC) * SAASM / M-Code (Optional) * Advanced GNSS (PNTRv23) + Assured PNT (PNTRv23) - GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, SBAS, QZSS PNTRv3 PNTRv23 - IRIDIUM-based Geolocation For information on HTL’s portfolio of products designed to align with the SOSA™ Release 1.0 standard for a wide range of applications, platforms and mission requirements, herricktechlabs.com email [email protected] EDITOR’S PERSPECTIVE education, Dan Taylor By John McHale, Editorial Director Following what has been a busy springtime returning to in- person military conferences and trade shows like the Sea-Air- Space Expo and SOFIC, launching our own virtual events, and keeping up with all the latest defense electronics news and trends like the Department of Defense's (DoD‘s) modular open systems approach (MOSA) strategies, the summer slowdown has been sweet. The short lull is enabling us to gear up for what will be a busy fall: We have some announcements about new live events, innovative virtual events, and a new Technology Editor. Kicking off the second half of this year, we published the 2022 SOSA Special Edition. Those of you receiving this issue in the mail also received a copy of the 76-page magazine, our second volume highlighting editorial content on The Open Group’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) Technical Standard from the pages and website of Military Embedded Systems Magazine, as well as the products aligned and conformant to the technical standard. If you don’t have a copy, visit us online at https://militaryembedded.com to peruse the latest 2022 SOSA Special Edition. The 2022 SOSA Special Edition follows on our first edition covering the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard, which we published in May and may be viewed here: https://issuu.com/opensystemsmedia/docs/face_ specialedition_2022_e-mag_final Law-Tech Connect Workshop Online Our contributing editor Dawn Zoldi (Col., U.S. Air Force, Ret.), president of P3 Consulting, writes pieces for Military Embedded Systems on topics such as autonomous systems, drones, Al [artificial intelligence], and counter-drone technology, plus she is also a legal expert in the autonomous and military fields. At this past April's Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) XPONENTIAL 2022, she hosted the Law- Tech Connect Workshop, which provided technological and legal educational content on multidomain autonomous systems and Al, 5G, and more. The workshop included eight sessions, including one moderated by me: “Autonomous Vehicles: Air, Land, and Sea Lanes” featuring panelists Dean Griffith, Of Counsel, Jones Day; Tracy Reynolds, Fleet Judge Advocate, Commander SECOND Fleet, U.S. Navy; and Matthew Henshon, Partner, Henshon Klein. The workshop content was so good and relevant that we are working with Zoldi to present four of the prerecorded sessions online — including my panel discussion — in the Law-Tech Connect Workshop Online, a pay-per-view virtual event hosted by Military Embedded Systems featuring a live Q&A with www. militaryembedded.com Happenings: MOSA conference, legal-tech [email protected] Zoldi, James Poss (Maj. Gen., U.S. Air Force, Ret.), the CEO of ISR Ideas; and David Michelson, Program Manager, Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), to be held on August 31, 2022. For attorneys, the event offers a total of 4 CLE Credit Hours general or technology credits from the Florida Bar that are self- certifiable and transferable to other jurisdiction. To register and beat the early bird deadline, visit https://www.bigmarker.com/ series/law-tech-connect-workshop-online/series_details. MOSA Conference In my role as a member of the Advisory Committee for Aerospace Tech Week, | am organizing a one-day MOSA conference track for the event's first U.S. instantiation: Aerospace Tech Week Americas, to be held November 8-9 in Atlanta, Georgia. The MOSA Conference Track will educate attendees on how MOSA strategies and open architecture initiatives such as SOSA and FACE are being deployed in military systems and how these approaches enable faster adoption of commercial technology. The one-day track will include a keynote and three sessions: Open Architectures for Military Aviation Platforms; MOSA Strategies for Sensor Application; and Leveraging Commercial Technology for Defense Applications. For more information on the conference, visit https://www.aerospacetechweek.com/ americas/conferences/. On the opposite day of the MOSA Conference Track, there will be a one-day MOSA Workshop/Exhibitor Theater near the OpenSystems Media Pavilion. To learn more about the workshop/exhibitor theater and the MOSA Pavilion contact OSM’s Director of Sales at [email protected]. Dan Taylor Lastly, allow me to introduce our new Technology Editor - Washington Bureau, Dan Taylor. He brings 15 years of jour- nalism experience covering the military technology industry at Inside The Navy, Sea Power Magazine, and Defense Daily, and he has written for such other pub- licationsas C4ISR, Military & Aerospace Electronics, and even Military Embedded 2 ai Taylor's also covered the Sea-Air-Space show for more than 15 years. Based in Pentagon City, Taylor will be a fixture for us at Wash- ington conferences and trade shows, and will be covering all key areas for us with a focus on Al and unmanned systems. Don’t miss his article on trusted computing and data-at-rest on page 26. Taylor can be reached at: [email protected]. MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS July/August 2022 9 UNIVERSITY UPDATE A future workforce capable of providing the secure microelectronics that will be needed by the U.S. government and industry are essential to the nation’s economy and security, and a program headed by Purdue University aims to make sure that happens. Peter Bermel, the Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue, is heading a national initiative to address the urgent need for engineering graduates to develop defense technologies, espe- cially in the area of microelectronics. "There is a rapidly developing workforce need in microelectronics and an increasing need for the U.S. to catch up compared with other countries,” Bermel says. “It’s a priority that we ensure students coming out of universities are motivated to work in specific microelectronics areas to drive the U.S. economy and security forward in the future.” (Figure 1.) The Scalable Asymmetric Lifecycle En- gagement Microelectronics Workforce Development program (SCALE) is a $19.2 million multi-university public/private/ academic partnership that is intended to foster work force development across engineering universities in the U.S. Bermel leads the SCALE program, which brings faculty across the Purdue College of Engineering together with faculty from 16 universities, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Ad- ministration labs, and the defense industry to create a microelectronics work force focused on national-security needs. Bermel notes some of the major challenges for current students and the new microelectronics work force in the U.S.: "A decreased number of high-school graduates, a reduced likelihood that they'll matriculate in two- and four-year degree programs, and increased com- petition from other STEM fields.” In 10 July/August 2022 Program puts national focus on the future of microelectronics By Lisa Daigle, Assistant Managing Editor addition, he sees as major challenges for the current microelectronics workforce upskilling existing workers to keep up with technology developments, as well as increasing eligibility for retirement for a significant fraction of workers. Students participating in the SCALE network gain experience and hands-on expertise with microelectronics technology both current and emerging, lead- ing them on a path to ensuring that the U.S. builds and strengthens the domestic semiconductor industrial base that underpins national-defense applications and infrastructure. As part of the program, Bermel has developed an advanced secure electronics software and hardware platform serving a broad range of potential users. He also has suc- cessfully demonstrated new electronics capable of extended lifetimes under extreme conditions. Undergrads and graduate students enrolled in SCALE-affiliated programs can access mentoring, internships, and research opportunities at allied companies, universities, and federal research organizations that are focused on microelectronics work force development. Some of SCALE'’s university partners include Arizona State University, Georgia Tech, SUNY Binghamton, and Vanderbilt. Purdue's role as consortium manager, Bermel states, is to organize the working groups in each technical area. “With that said, we have a technical lead for each area, which is usually another university that takes the lead in developing curric- ulum, in partnership with the other universities in that area.” Current technology areas of focus include embedded systems/artificial intelligence (Al), radiation hardening, heterogeneous integration, system-on-chip, and supply-chain issues. One of the most recent forays of the SCALE program is Purdue's Center for Se- cure Microelectronics Ecosystem (CSME), MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS Figure 1 | Purdue University associate professor Peter Bermel heads the national SCALE initiative, which is ensuring that students across the U.S. are motivated to work in specific defense- and security-related fields. Image courtesy Purdue University. which aims to help ensure a secure supply of semiconductor chips and related products and tools, from the foundry to the packaged system, based on a zero-trust model, while giving SCALE students advanced training opportunities. Alison Smith, education and workforce development co-lead of the trusted and assured microelectronics program at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division - one of the government entities participating in the SCALE program — says that the defense industry must compete for students and workers with critical interdisciplinary skill sets. “The issue is multifold,” Smith says. “Those of us working in national defense technologies have to compete with these thou- sands of companies that need the same skill sets; some of our needed skill sets are not currently taught in traditional cur- ricula, and these positions are the hardest to fill because the demand is so much greater than the supply. We also have the additional difficulty of only recruiting domestic students. We need both a trained and a clearable workforce.” Bermel says that after only a few years in operation, the total number of SCALE students across all universities at last count is 233. “Since the program has grown so fast, only a handful have grad- uated already, but we expect many more to graduate in the next year or two.” www.militaryembedded.com