Despite the current budget woes of defense departments, the demand continues for delivering more performance and improved functionality from rugged computers and communications subsystems to fulfill mission requirements.

Space and weight are key factors in designing, mounting, and installing data acquisition systems on UAV and missile development programs. Pat Quinn discusses an integrated and expandable solution.

This white paper explores how some of the use-case considerations and technological advances are driving system integrators to pursue a distributed over a consolidated system architecture and visa-versa.