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BUDGET OVERVIEW
JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
 
Funding requested for Department of Defense (DoD) Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 totals $92.4 billion, accounting for 33 percent of the Trump administration's Procurement and Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDTandE) funding request for the Department of Defense (DoD) of $236.7 billion.
 
 
 
 
 
 
MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS UPDATE
MILITARY EMBEDDED SYSTEMS 
 
AUVSI's Xponential, taking place April 30th - May 3rd at the Colorado Convention Center, brings more than 8,500 industry leaders together focusing on unmanned vehicle technology. Military Embedded Systems if providing full coverage of the embedded electronics fueling unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), and unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) at the show. 
 
 
 
 
 
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CYBERSECURITY UPDATE
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
 
What constitutes an act of war in cyberspace? Russia, North Korea, China, and Iran - all made headlines in the past year by conducting malicious acts against the United States. So far, however, their actions do not fall under the category that would constitute an act of war. 
 
 
 
 
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
JEREMY VANDOMELEN & BENJAMIN M. BROSGOL, ADACORE
 
Defense platforms are expected to perform over a long operational life that can span several decades. Developing high-reliability, safety-critical software that is built to last requires comprehensive tools from trusted industry partners. 
 
 
 
 
 
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MIL TECH INSIDER
IVAN STRAZNICKY, CURTISS-WRIGHT DEFENSE SOLUTIONS
 
A new, higher-performance era of VPX (VITA 46) computing was launched in January - at the Embedded Tech Trends (ETT) 2018 Conference in Austin, Texas - with the announcement that Gen 5 VPX data rates will run on today's standard VPX connector.
 
 
 
 
 
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INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT
MARIANA IRIARTE, TECHNOLOGY EDITOR
 
The constant push for increased bandwidth requirements mean that avionics engineers must continually design connectors that handle ever-higher data rates. As connector designs focus more squarely on data rates, all kinds of users are asking for the most cutting-edge technology - all within a small package.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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PERSPECTIVES 
JOHN MCHALE, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
 
In the following Q and A with Rich Sorelle, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Abaco Systems, he discusses how technology needs to get into the hands of warfighters more quickly, the best application bets for COTS suppliers with the increases to the DoD budget, and why prime contractors are choosing COTS more and more for their embedded computing needs. Sorelle also covers his company's recent reorganization.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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SISTER PUBLICATION - VITA TECHNOLOGIES
JERRY GIPPER, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
 
Two big news items have occurred since our last issue. The first is that under The Open Group, the Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) standard began the process to establish itself as its own consortia. The second is the end-of-the-year Mercury Systems' announcement that they were acquiring Themis Computer.
 
 
 
 
 
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WHITE PAPER
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