Reliability is a key requirement for military and aerospace systems and assemblies. Curtiss-Wright has been highly focused on ruggedness and reliability as a leading supplier of COTS [commercial off-the-shelf] electronics for more than 30 years.

Faster communications and continually connected devices, in the form of 5G and ubiquitous devices connected in an IoT infrastructure, will significantly change our domestic lives. Or so we hear during the commercial breaks between news segments or read in the Sunday papers over coffee.

Analysis of the latest technologies being developed by avionics OEMs for the emerging eVTOL market.

Today, multiple echelons - platoon, company, battalion, brigade, and division – are all trying to communicate with each other using different mechanisms, whether via line of sight (LOS) radios or beyond line of sight (BLOS) satellite communications (SATCOM).

As the U.S. Navy increases its investment in its fleet of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUV), suppliers of rugged commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) subsystems, providing solutions for mission computers, network switches, and routers, and data storage are meeting the needs of these unique platforms.

To maintain warfighter overmatch, the US military must deploy advanced technologies for situational awareness to the edge of the battlefield.

As expeditionary forces consider how best to enable and maintain tactical communications in complex and contested environments, industry is exploring how next-generation capabilities such as AI, ML, and 5G connectivity can support emerging signal demands.

Charlie Kawasaki talks to the Shephard news team about technology in tactical communications programs.