Published in Military & Aerospace Electronics
NASHUA N.H. – Military & Aerospace Electronics and Intelligent Aerospace today announced their 2018 Technology Innovation Awards to recognize companies offering substantial military, aerospace, and avionics design solutions.
Awards are in three tiers — ranging from platinum, the highest, to the gold awards, and finally to the silver awards — and are based on the recommendations of an independent panel of industry judges.
Platinum awards...
The HSR40 high-speed network-attached storage (NAS) data recorder from the Curtiss-Wright Corp. Defense Solutions Division in Ashburn, Va., offers 40 Gigabit Ethernet handling the incoming data, with dual Xeon D processors and two built-in 40 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The processors can absorb the incoming data and redirect it to the persistent storage media, using third-generation PCI Express. Data pipelines over the backplane to the PCI Express-based non-volatile memory express (NVMe) solid-sate drives. Drives are installed onto removable memory blades, each with a maximum capacity of 32 terabytes, allowing for quick offloading of data for post mission analysis.
The Axon Miniature Data Acquisition Unit from the Curtiss-Wright Corp. Defense Solutions Division in Ashburn, Va., is an ultra-compact and lightweight data acquisition system that works as a remote node or as a stand-alone chassis. Axon uses a 1-gigabit-per-second serial backplane to support high data rates. This design also enables designers to place off-the-shelf data acquisition modules in ultra-miniature ""Axonite"" housings and locate them remotely. It helps decrease the installation time and cost of the instrumentation while simultaneously reducing wiring weight.
Gold awards...
The VPX3-1260 3U VPX 8th Gen Intel Xeon E-2176M single-board computer from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, offers a leap in performance over previous generations of Core i7 and Xeon processors in the smallest 3U form factor. Leveraging Intel’s first-ever six-core processor, the VPX3-1260 is designed to deliver more than 50 percent more processing power than previous for-core designs. The VPX3-1260 offers 10-Gigabit and 40-Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for fast data transfer and high network productivity. It has a local NVMe local solid-state drive, and is built to VITA 47 standards. It provides high non-throttling performance, and offers Intel’s latest Trusted Computing features, such as Intel Boot Guard and UEFI Secure Boot, and offers Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) for secured run-time software enclaves.
The Rugged Video Gateway Range product family from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions provides a flexible building block for complex video management and integration. It’s interoperable with the Curtiss-Wright RVG range enabling complex, scalable, solutions. For example, the format converter can combine in a video management system with the RVG-SD1 digital video switch and/or the RVG-SA1 analog video switch. Other elements are available for configuring a complete VMS -- include rugged LCD touchscreen mission displays, and digital HD video recorders.
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