For many years, military-system designers relied solely on direct attached storage (DAS) devices when they needed to deploy data storage on military platforms.

Vetronics systems today are increasingly focused on C4ISR [command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance], interoperability with other battlefield elements, and the capability to be optionally unmanned if necessary.

Curtiss-Wright takes top place, for second year in a row, winning seven Technology Innovators Awards - three platinum, two gold, and two silver.

Because MOSA (Modular Open Systems Approach) is an approach and not itself a standard, solutions that support this vision can be achieved through many different means as long as interfaces and communications protocols are based on open standards.

See more, detect more, and decode more - these are the primary requirements being asked of unmanned systems in the military.

This year's Tri-Services Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID) saw a significant increase in participants and the number of live demonstrations showing working systems that embrace the key open standards that instantiate MOSA.

Curtiss-Wright provided the flight test instrumentation equipment used to capture the flight data during the test flight.

Trying to strike a balance between power and security with data-at-rest in the field – and doing it all within a highly constrained space in an environment with dirt and moisture that threatens to damage expensive equipment – is a tall order indeed.